The April 3 front-page photograph of workers cleaning the brick and granite facade of the Lafayette Apartments on South Main Street in Butler served as a reminder that s...
It might be easy for the Seneca Valley School Board to place much of the blame for the district’s $4.8 million budget deficit on Gov. Tom Corbett’s cost-cutting decision...
All too often, when government employees — from politicians to bureaucrats — spend money, it’s clear from their behavior that they know they are spending OPM, or other p...
Even if the proposal aimed at cutting the size of the Pennsylvania Legislature passes during the current legislative session — and there is no guarantee that it will — i...
A single issue shouldn’t be the basis for tearing apart a well-functioning municipal government. However, the proposed hiring of a part-time police officer threatens lon...
With health care in the news again as the U.S. Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the 2010 health care reform law, it’s a good time to refocus the nation’s...
Reports of trusted employees or volunteers stealing from nonprofit organizations are disturbingly common. Every few months, it seems, there’s a story of a nonprofit that...
In the course of less than a week, Butler lost two community leaders, Andrew Yaracs Jr. and Abie Abraham. The two men affected the lives of thousands of people in the Bu...
With April just around the corner, millions of Americans are thinking about taxes and the April 17 deadline for filing federal income taxes.
But when most people think a...
To some people, most politicians in Harrisburg (and Washington, D.C.) are self-serving and greedy, if not corrupt. So when a jury in Pittsburgh found state Sen. Jane Ori...
