With Thursday’s announcement that Shell Oil Co. has chosen a Beaver County site for a chemical “cracker” plant, the temptation to slip into hyperbole is hard to resist.
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Although details are yet to be worked out, it was encouraging to learn Monday that $600,000 has been pledged to help revitalization of Butler’s downtown business distric...
Tough decisions await the Mars School District as it works to resolve a projected $2.5 million 2012-13 budget deficit. But the district would be facing a significantly l...
The Internal Revenue Service, tossing aside the principle of “let the buyer beware,” is drawing up regulations establishing licensing requirements for hundreds of thousa...
All of the reasons why a 10-year-old Moraine Elementary School pupil decided to bring a pellet gun to school on March 1 might never be known.
But Slippery Rock district ...
The Butler School Board is right to explore possible school closings in confronting its estimated $6.5 million 2012-13 budget deficit and possible deficits going forward...
Most of the debate over Gov. Tom Corbett’s budget proposal has focused on cuts to higher education. Corbett campaigned on not raising taxes and he has stuck to that pled...
Whether state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe succeeds in blocking Seneca Valley School District’s desire to raise its property tax beyond what is permitted under state law will pla...
The legacy of political and social scientist James Q. Wilson, who died last week at age 80, is the focus of George Will’s column on this page.
Wilson was best known for ...
The problems holding up an insurance settlement for Zelienople’s Kaufman House restaurant aren’t being disclosed because of the possibility of legal action. But there ar...
