The Butler School District’s projected $6.4 million 2012-13 budget deficit requires that the school board make tough decisions prior to June 30, the end of the current f...
As President Barack Obama gears up for the fall election, he and congressional Democrats are planning to press for passage of the so-called Buffett Rule that would impos...
Rick Santorum defied the predictions of most veteran political observers when he won Iowa’s leadoff caucuses in January.
But even having achieved that victory, few thoug...
It’s no secret that the city of Butler is flirting with the possibility of bankruptcy or state Act 47 fiscally distressed status in only a couple of years.
The city’s cu...
Again for the 2012-13 school year, Pennsylvania’s Taxpayer Relief Act won’t be providing the magnitude of relief and taxpayer control that was envisioned when the law wa...
The Butler Eagle’s decision to step down as primary sponsor of the Spirit of Christmas parade must not doom the holiday event.
More than seven months out from what would...
The April 3 front-page photograph of workers cleaning the brick and granite facade of the Lafayette Apartments on South Main Street in Butler served as a reminder that s...
It might be easy for the Seneca Valley School Board to place much of the blame for the district’s $4.8 million budget deficit on Gov. Tom Corbett’s cost-cutting decision...
All too often, when government employees — from politicians to bureaucrats — spend money, it’s clear from their behavior that they know they are spending OPM, or other p...
Even if the proposal aimed at cutting the size of the Pennsylvania Legislature passes during the current legislative session — and there is no guarantee that it will — i...
