Butler County Controller Jack McMillin has been controversial at times, but he also has done a good job as county government's fiscal watchdog.
Because of that, McMillin...
The Butler School District is right in deciding to hire a consultant to develop a facilities master plan. Formal approval of the action occurred at Monday’s school board...
Knowing that the public is frustrated with much of what Washington politicians do or don’t do, members of the House of Representatives in January passed a bill they call...
Rather than setting a cap on cost-of-living pay adjustments for elected county officials, the Butler County commissioners should put in place a no-annual-COLA policy.
Th...
Back in December, the nation’s attention was focused on the serious economic damage that could come if the nation went over the “fiscal cliff.” That congressionally manu...
The Butler School Board and the district administration continue to talk doom and gloom regarding the 2013-14 fiscal year, which begins July 1.
That’s despite a projecte...
The city of Butler has endured a long wait for a major development regarding the proposed Centre City project.
Now that a significant achievement has been realized, the ...
Last fall, when the Moniteau School District was embroiled in the fallout from a hazing incident involving football players, residents turned out to oppose the punishmen...
Recurring federal budget deficits and the $16 trillion accumulated national debt have been dominating political debate. Politicians in Washington continue to argue over ...
For most of the world’s more than 1 billion Roman Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation announcement was unthinkable.
Not since the year 1415 had a pope decided to ...
