Schools are a place for learning, not for fighting and temper tantrums.
But as an article in Tuesday's Butler Eagle reported, there is growing concern about student cond...
Little problems ignored often evolve into big problems.
That’s the case with debris-strewn properties, junk cars, dilapidated buildings and disregard for animal-control ...
Two tax-abatement ideas are being floated on how to make Butler’s business privilege tax more friendly to new enterprises.
For the financially strapped city, the idea ta...
Transportation funding in Pennsylvania is slipping just when it should be increasing — and nobody in Harrisburg is doing more than talking about it.
As reported in a fro...
If you rob a bank, you should spend some time in prison.
Whether the economy is good or bad, there always are some people experiencing tough times due to joblessness. An...
State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-12th, who authored Pennsylvania’s controversial voter ID law, angered some state residents last week with his observation that some commonwe...
The county has done it before, but the latest effort to give residents a safe venue for disposing of unused, unwanted prescription drugs also merits an enthusiastic thum...
The city of Butler got some good financial news for a change with the report on earned-income and business privilege tax collections for the first seven months of the ye...
Teachers in Chicago returned to the classroom yesterday, ending a seven-day strike that focused national attention on the issue of school reform.
Television viewers and ...
Pennsylvania House Minority Leader Frank Dermody, D-Oakmont, has taken the lead in urging that all of the $60 million fine levied by the NCAA against Penn State in conne...
