Butler County certainly isn’t the only county with blighted properties. There probably isn’t a county anywhere that can make a no-blight boast.
But Butler County over th...
The Affordable Care Act became the law of the land nearly two years ago. On Wednesday, this historic reform is the subject of a congressional hearing in Butler called by...
Gov. Tom Corbett’s 2012-13 budget proposal has put education in the spotlight. It’s also put Corbett in the cross hairs of people in the education community, from colleg...
Wednesday’s meeting of the Butler County Salary Board provided a vivid example of a longtime failure to address waste that even now some county leaders want to continue ...
People reading the Feb. 10 Butler Eagle article about the Butler Township commissioners' approval of a new fee schedule for 2012 might not have stopped to consider the s...
Butler police Capt. Ronald Fierst, who will become the city’s police chief on March 2, says he wants to bring the same mentality to the chief position as he had as a bea...
Former state Rep. Mike Veon, D-Beaver, along with former state Sen. Vincent Fumo, both started nonprofit agencies with names suggesting good works for the public. Veon c...
The fact that eight people are vying for appointment to a two-year unexpired term on the Butler School Board raises a question. That is why there is so much interest in ...
Member of Congress passed legislation last week to ban lawmakers from insider trading, making stock market profits with nonpublic information.
While that sounds good, it...
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s “lean and demanding” 2012-13 state budget proposal has ensured that the commonwealth’s 500 public school districts will again face seriou...
