While campaigning for governor, Tom Corbett promised great strides in job creation, thus lowering the state’s unemployment rate.
Corbett has kept jobs a focal point of h...
The 2007 state law Act 44, created as an alternative to leasing the Pennnsylvania Turnpike to a private investor, requires that the Turnpike Commission provide funding o...
It’s hard to imagine the birth of a job-creating industry rivaling the role played by the steel industry in Western Pennsylvania decades ago, but that’s part of the mess...
Despite some confusion and a legal challenge to a court ruling that refused to stop implementation of the voter ID law in Pennsylvania, official and unofficial efforts t...
Campaign spin and negative ads will no doubt be part of this year’s presidential election. But there also can be education, at least on the issue of Medicare, now that U...
There were Butler School Board members and district residents on both sides of the issue of whether the Japanese language program should be ended.
On Monday, the board r...
One of the most important messages delivered at Friday’s meeting about a new VA Butler Healthcare health care center is that the public is interested and wants to be kep...
Millions of Americans still are feeling the effects of the Great Recession while others’ problems relate to job losses and other setbacks extending from long before the ...
The city of Butler's explanation of how a sinkhole behind Pullman Park will be eliminated leaves much to be desired.
Butler's longstanding solution of “we'll correct it ...
There's something to learn from the life of Lagene Lawson, who committed suicide in Cranberry Township early Saturday while being pursued by police.
Lawson's life and th...
