Butler city officials are continuing their war against blighted and abandoned properties that began last year. That’s commendable.
Failure to confront blight is an invit...
Leona Helmsley, the late New York City billionaire hotel heiress, famously said, “Only the little people pay taxes.”
In the corporate world, General Electric, the larges...
What was most noteworthy about two area university rallies last week in opposition to Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed budget cuts was the low attendance at those events.
At ...
Butler County Emergency Services' goal of ensuring its capability to pinpoint the location from where all 911 calls are made by cell phone deserves positive notice.
Mean...
Faculty members at the 14 state-owned universities, including Slippery Rock University, have acted responsibly in “agreeing in principle” to negotiate a one-year wage fr...
When it comes to the recent focus on the pensions and health care costs of public workers, there’s a mixed message — good news and bad news.
The good news is that we’re ...
Considering the long stretch of winter weather, some people might have expected Butler’s downtown business district to look more littered than it appears to be.
That’s t...
Normally, Main Street merchants are at odds with giant, national companies like Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot and other big-box retailers. But when it comes to the sales ...
Middlesex Township officials understandably are embarrassed over “irregularities” that an annual audit turned up in the municipality's financial books. In response to th...
On Pennsylvania’s public education front, the question now is whether local Pennsylvania State Education Association bargaining units will heed the message of James P. T...
