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...
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...
