Harmony and Zelienople boroughs are continuing to provide a good example of how neighboring communities can help one another, having already been successful in shared st...
After another unproductive year, made worse by campaign distractions of the off-year election, some state lawmakers are saying they want to cast votes between now and th...
The defeat of the government study referendum involving Slippery Rock Borough and Township in Tuesday’s election doesn’t mean that cooperation between the two municipali...
After Tuesday’s election results, victorious Republicans and chastened Democrats all claimed they would work for the American people. Maybe the sense of frustration and ...
Butler County Treasurer Diane Marburger could have been more careful in her use of words and in her initial explanation of why she recommended that the county keep 89 in...
Apart from the state's budget crisis, one of the more controversial issues Gov.-elect Tom Corbett will face is Marcellus Shale gas development in the state. The day afte...
At the 1952 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson, who was drafted as his party's standard-bearer, told the convention that when the t...
With few exceptions, individual candidates were less a factor in yesterday's election than the wave sweeping the country. This year, voters' discontent over the weak eco...
County election officials expect a 50 percent turnout for today's election. That's better than normal, thanks to having local businessman Mike Kelly in a race for Congre...
Former state Rep. Mike Veon, now serving time in prison for his role in the Bonusgate scandal, was back in the news last week. With his appeal of his original restitutio...
