In most states, including Pennsylvania, the once-a-decade process of redrawing legislative and congressional districts is partisan, with the party in power redrawing dis...
With Greater Pittsburgh International Airport so close to Butler County, many people here do not reflect on the economic importance of the Butler County Airport.
But the...
The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue's new effort to help state residents live up to their 6 percent use-tax obligation is laudable.
However, it's reasonable to be ske...
Republican lawmakers in Harrisburg have finally released their redrawn state legislative districts and congressional districts. The once-a-decade process of redistrictin...
Most Pennsylvania taxpayers believe that all parts of the state budget must share in the sacrifices necessary to return the commonwealth’s fiscal situation to stability....
As former New Jersey governor and former Democratic Sen. Jon Corzine returned to Washington in recent days to testify about the sudden collapse of MF Global, it’s like b...
A vast pool of natural gas lies trapped in shale nearly a mile below the surface under most of Western Pennsylvania. Marcellus Shale gas development has pitted the inter...
Supervisors and department heads are paid more because they are responsible for overseeing other workers and for troubleshooting, and their work often extends well beyon...
The city of Butler provides services to nonprofits as well as to properties on the real estate tax rolls.
However, nonprofits, which occupy about 35 percent of the prope...
Relatives of the 29 miners killed in the April 5, 2010, explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia have every right to be angry that no criminal charges wil...
