Remembering that we all live downwind from something, it was encouraging to learn last week that the federal Environmental Protection Agency is issuing new pollution sta...
Since no one can predict what issues might come before the Butler County Board of Commissioners during the remainder of 2011, the interim commissioner that President Jud...
To motorists who routinely travel Route 228 between Routes 19 and 8, the major improvement projects planned for 2012 and 2013 will not come soon enough.
Development arou...
News last week that obesity rates in the United States are increasing is not surprising, but it is troubling because the implications are so serious. The costs are clear...
James Kennedy’s departure from the Butler County Board of Commissioners on Friday will be a loss to the county. He has provided solid service during his 15 years of help...
Act 47, Pennsylvania’s financially distressed cities law, has been rejected up to now by Butler city officials, despite the city’s worsening money situation and the poss...
This year’s contract talks with employees might be the most important in Butler’s history.
With the city facing the possibility of bankruptcy in two or three years, what...
As negotiations in Washington to raise the nation’s debt ceiling head down to the wire, it’s mostly political gamesmanship that the public is seeing. The debt limit dead...
Chicora Medical Center deserves praise for its generous offer of space so library services can continue for communities in that area, now that the Butler County Federate...
The 2011-12 Pennsylvania budget will not impose as big of a hit on public school districts as Gov. Tom Corbett requested in his budget proposal unveiled in March.
Still,...
