As with most annual meetings, Butler Downtown’s annual session on Nov. 28 involved a review of the past year’s successes and goals for the coming year.
But while the But...
Assuming that Pennsylvania Act 108 will be upheld during an appeal to the state Supreme Court, Butler County commissioners in office four years from now should do what t...
While elected officials in Washington are rightly focused on the approaching “fiscal cliff,” there is plenty of evidence that health care reform needs to be revisited. T...
In the rest of the country, it may be just another movie, but in Washington, Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” has become a political Rorschach test.
It seems as if every pun...
The 115,000 students attending Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities — including Slippery Rock University — received an early holiday season gift with their faculty...
The negative impact Butler County and its taxpayers will face as the result of the loss of a $400,000 federal Arrest Grant should provide the incentive for all county de...
Looking ahead to next year, Gov. Tom Corbett is pledging to tackle pension reform. When he does step forward to provide some leadership on the public pension crisis, whi...
It can be surmised that news about the confrontational atmosphere in the Butler County commissioners office is spreading far and wide in Pennsylvania — perhaps beyond th...
When they heard about the special, unwarranted treatment accorded Dr. David Evanko, many people sent to prison immediately upon being sentenced had to have reacted negat...
Education innovation is sometimes derided as not much more than a fad. In the 1970s, it was the open-classroom concept, and in the 1980s whole-language learning was popu...
