Hardly a week, or a day, goes by without some reports involving the Marcellus Shale gas industry in Pennsylvania. Some stories focus on the economic benefits and job-cre...
Stunning upsets in a handful of primary races Tuesday made clear that the anti-incumbent, anti-establishment wave characterized by fiscally conservative "tea party" acti...
Knowing that other cities are facing financial crises similar to Butler's doesn't help solve the city's problems. And seeing how another state is tackling its public pen...
The newspaper headlines trigger a double take. A recent front-page article in the Pittsburgh Business Times described recent growth of the solar energy industry in Weste...
The Butler County commissioners are giving county residents an opportunity to become actively involved in the issue of county elected officials' annual cost-of-living (C...
The Pittsburgh Pirates' legendary second baseman Bill Mazeroski has gotten the statue he deserves, just like Honus Wagner, Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell before hi...
Soon after assuming office in 2008, the current board of county commissioners formed a budget advisory committee. Butler officials should be doing the same thing now, co...
It's true that Butler County Commissioner Dale Pinkerton exercised bad judgment when, at a public commissioners meeting on Feb. 3, he stated how many sick days a particu...
Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, was on the hot seat last week. He was being asked about the Fed's role in missing the housing bubble that set off the 2008...
National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell did not send the right message to the rest of the league's players Friday when he reduced the suspension of Steelers ...
