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...
Thanksgiving was proclaimed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 with these words:
“It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life another year . . . to favor ...
The union representing employees of Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center would have helped its image by choosing not to fight a requirement that employees wear su...
The tax-abatement changes that Butler City Council tentatively approved on Thursday with the goal of attracting new businesses won’t resolve the city’s serious financial...
Anyone familiar with the election process knows candidates for state and federal offices make many promises aimed at demonstrating their leadership skills.
However, it's...
