Saxonburg Borough Council made a difficult decision last Thursday in opting to eliminate one of the borough’s two full-time police positions, effective Dec. 31, in order...
The new community service group Concerned Citizens of Butler could have chosen to stay focused only on issues related to the city’s landlords and rental properties, sinc...
Praise is in order for everyone who helped Longmore Academy achieve its book-collection goal of 6,000 volumes — amazingly, in just two weeks.
The academy, which has a bu...
An automatic pay raise for Pennsylvania lawmakers and other state officials is attracting attention and raising questions — all of which is good.
The 1.7 percent pay inc...
A spokesman for Gov.-elect Tom Corbett says Corbett will review the car allowances of the state’s appellate court judiciary, in addition to his earlier pledge to reduce ...
The Bush-era tax cuts, scheduled to expire by the end of the year, have been the subject of plenty of national debate. But another federal program, subsidizing ethanol a...
NEW YORK — In a political culture where moderation is the new heresy, centrism is fast becoming the new black.
Political outliers — not quite Republican, not quite Democ...
Republicans, who will have full control of both the legislative and executive branches of Pennsylvania government in 2011, have the opportunity to engineer significant s...
The controversy over heightened airport security, including enhanced body scanners and aggressive pat-downs, came at a bad time — right before the Thanksgiving weekend, ...
People who send text messages while driving deserve not only a jeer, but also a ticket. By opting for this distraction, they endanger not only themselves but also other ...
