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...
Even though most Americans view the financial crisis of 2008-09 as old news, two events last week in New York City could change that view. And renewed attention on the n...
It’s commendable that the newly reorganized Butler School Board, which has five new members, is taking steps to avoid a repeat of a controversy like the one the former b...
The fact that a proposed construction-renovation project in the Freeport School District might eventually require a voter referendum dictates that district residents sta...
You could say that Santa Claus made a pre-season stop to Pennsylvania's state government chambers in Harrisburg on Thursday. But the gift to state lawmakers, an automati...
