The need for infrastructure improvements in the United States is obvious. A drive across town, across the state or across the country reveals aging roads, bridges, dams ...
Slippery Rock School District officials' decision to freeze their pay for the 2011-12 fiscal year won't solve the district's estimated $2.6 million budget shortfall. But...
Zelienople business operators took the right approach Monday in voicing their concerns to the borough council about the community’s new sign regulations.
Rather than gru...
The proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA by AT&T might benefit company shareholders, but it would most likely harm mobile phone customers by reducing competition and leadin...
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 ...
