In state capitals and cities, both large and small, financial realities can no longer be ignored. A quote by Nobel prize-winning physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford sums up ...
Some people might say former state Sen. Jane Orie is getting all that she deserves in connection with her conviction on political corruption and forgery charges. In addi...
A public official should be careful to set a good example outside of the office if he or she wants to be respected regarding the decisions that must be made while servin...
A series of public opinion polls about the nation’s crumbling infrastructure paints an accurate picture of many Americans’ mind-set — we want things, but don’t want to p...
The Butler County commissioners continue to debate whether new construction or buying and renovating an existing building is the best option for easing county government...
Thursday’s anxiously awaited ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the 2010 health care reform law, known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, briefly focused the nati...
Whether it wins or not, Slippery Rock competing in the America in Bloom competition has been good for the community. The product of the effort not only is community prid...
Butler County will have a major role in the professional sports world, if a joint plan of the Pittsburgh Penguins and UPMC — to build a first-of-its-kind hockey-only tra...
Butler County Court shouldn’t be lenient with the five county prison inmates accused of obtaining heroin and hypodermic needles May 11 while on a work detail at the Butl...
With the U.S. economy still struggling, and a decade of higher-than-inflation tuition hikes at most four-year colleges and universities, the nation’s community colleges ...
