The headline on yesterday’s front page said it well — Voters offered choices.
Today’s election — polls remain open until 8 p.m. — is predicted to be a classic off-year e...
The already difficult job of the congressional supercommittee tasked with cutting at least $1.2 trillion from the federal deficit got even more difficult last week. The ...
Butler's Main Street district is the heart of the city and the city is, in some ways, the heart of the county. For those reasons, it was encouraging to learn last week t...
The state Department of Revenue plans to ask consumers to pay sales tax on their online purchases when taxes are filed next April. While any attempt to collect sales tax...
With Tuesday’s state Senate passage of a bill making it illegal to text while driving, it looks like Pennsylvania will soon join 41 other states in trying to curtail thi...
A painful chapter in Butler County’s commitment to honoring its veterans finally came to a close Wednesday with the replacement of damaged commemorative bricks — called ...
Maybe public interest in Butler’s financial struggles will grow as the city council continues through the 2012 budget-preparation process, but meetings Tuesday and Thurs...
President Barack Obama has this week focused attention on the burden of student loans. He is proposing changes to an existing program to help ease the burden on graduate...
The six-year transportation construction plan being pushed by House Republicans in Congress makes sense from two perspectives.
First, the plan would create jobs; second,...
Leaders of a city in financial trouble should be discussing the problem openly at every one of their meetings and regularly updating residents on what remedial measures ...
