Past Butler School Boards’ generous teacher contracts maintained labor peace and employee morale, and both are important elements of an effective school district. But th...
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum created a controversy when he said President Barack Obama was a snob for wanting every high school student to attend coll...
Many school boards, facing multimillion-dollar 2012-13 budget shortfalls, no doubt envy the deficit that the Moniteau School District is dealing with for the coming fisc...
The April 24 primary election saw just 23 percent of registered voters in Butler County turn out to cast a ballot. For decades, voter turnout has been declining across t...
One of the great features of Butler's first Bantam Jeep Heritage Festival last summer was the Jeep sculptures that decorated the city.
Most people undoubtedly were pleas...
We’re far enough away from it now that we can probably all agree: It was a mistake for George W. Bush to land on that aircraft carrier in a flight suit to proclaim “Miss...
This isn’t usually the time of the year when municipalities take an in-depth look at their fiscal situations. In most cases, that task is left for later in the year, whe...
Americans have to wonder if this Congress can do anything.
Even the most routine matters have turned into election-year fights. Partisanship trumps accomplishment, and t...
Butler officials have important decisions to make about the city fire department. With the possibility of financially distressed status or bankruptcy looming in less tha...
Partisan politics and election-year posturing have turned a relatively minor problem into an election-year battle.
It’s a battle that didn’t need to be fought — and it c...
