Some Butler County residents no doubt were surprised to read in the Dec. 26 edition of the Butler Eagle that the county’s bed tax now is generating in excess of $1 milli...
As state lawmakers and Gov. Tom Corbett face what will be a challenging budget plan for 2012-13, there should be careful consideration for the impact of budget cuts on t...
By this time next year, the Butler County commissioners should be prepared to issue a detailed report to taxpayers on what a review targeted to begin in the new year unc...
It was appropriate that a quote from Chelynne Kramer, who will become manager of Butler Downtown on Monday, was part of the Butler Eagle’s Christmas Day edition.
If she ...
Now that the county has an estimated price tag for a proposed office building that would accommodate human services, it’s time for taxpayers to start letting their feeli...
By way of New Year’s Eve’s Ring in the Arts celebration, Butler will usher in what the community hopes will be a year of progress and, hopefully, better economic conditi...
The Butler School District’s challenge in preparing a balanced 2012-13 budget would be markedly less daunting without the pension grab concocted by the General Assembly ...
Some stories are timeless . . . like the letter an eight-year-old girl wrote 114 years ago to the editor of the New York Sun.
Every year, at this season, the Butler Eagl...
The latest tax revenue figures from Harrisburg suggest that the state budget for next year will be as challenging — or more challenging — than last year. The first place...
Pennsylvania residents who thought that the state would not witness a repeat of this year’s money crunch in the 2012-13 fiscal year are no doubt dismayed to learn otherw...
