The Butler School Board is correct in wanting to address district capital projects needs and recognizing the advantages of refinancing a bond issue to achieve its object...
“Home district” was a familiar term in the vocabulary of Bill DeWeese of Greene County during his 35 years in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, many as a powerful legis...
Beyond civility and professionalism, Butler County Commissioner Jim Eckstein should work on keeping things in perspective. Monitoring county spending is a good thing, bu...
States compete with one another to attract business and create jobs for a healthy economy. Sometimes this competition is characterized as a race to the bottom in terms o...
All school districts in Butler County need to provide to their residents a multi-year fiscal projection like that provided by the Seneca Valley School District superinte...
Butler residents who are part of a new survey dealing with the downtown area should embrace the study with a serious, committed and open-minded attitude. Their answers c...
Last week’s announcement that JPMorgan Chase, the big Wall Street bank, lost $2 billion in risky derivative trading activities should return attention to financial-refor...
A professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh characterizes it as “piling on,” but prosecutors’ attempt to force convicted state Sen. Jane Orie to repay more than $...
About the only good thing that can be said about the four Slippery Rock University students charged with breaking into and vandalizing the Robert M. Smith Student Center...
The U.S. Postal Service, on target to record $14 billion in losses this year, has plans that it believes will bolster its financial standing. However, the contradictions...
