Teachers in the Seneca Valley and Slippery Rock school districts have exercised their right to reject a pay freeze for the 2011-12 school year, deciding not to help thei...
When a first-time criminal defendant stands before a judge and expresses embarrassment and remorse, stating that he or she never again will be in that situation, it’s ri...
The announcement last week that Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu has appointed a top-flight panel to study hydraulic fracturing is a positive sign — for the environment, ...
The killing of Osama bin Laden dominated the news of the past week, but good things were happening outside the realm of that long-overdue mission.
On Tuesday, the Americ...
U.S. intelligence officials were said to be “moving with great dispatch” to study documents and information contained on DVDs and hard drives confiscated from the compou...
Butler City Council’s 3-2 decision Thursday against seeking financially distressed status under state Act 47 put off substantive action to begin addressing the municipal...
Butler School District taxpayers should be happy, although not ecstatic, with the approximately $770,000 of projected savings during each of the next three years under a...
Pennsylvania lawmakers haven’t supported the Bonusgate grand jury recommendations 11 months ago promoting a scaled-down state government.
And, from lawmakers’ perspectiv...
The debate over reducing the federal deficit is focusing primarily on spending cuts, but also on taxes. Most serious, and honest, appraisals of the massive budget defici...
It’s unfortunate that the people of Cuba will have to wait a few years longer for a new generation of leadership to take control of the country and usher in the vast ref...
