One week ago, at Butler City Council's July 22 meeting, former city clerk Bob Brehm made a presentation that was both clear and sobering. The City of Butler is, and has ...
It's too early to predict how the political corruption case against state Sen. Jane Orie, R-40th, and her sister Janine will shake out — or what twists and turns the cas...
It's not easy to find a story that makes Pennsylvania's politicians seem restrained when it comes to salary and benefits, including pensions. Given the notorious pay-rai...
News flash: Wall Street banks paid nearly $1.6 billion in unwarranted bonuses to executives at the peak of the financial crisis, when taxpayer bailout money kept many of...
While Butler city officials must accept the legal right of due process when it comes to eliminating blighted properties, it is encouraging to hear city officials discuss...
A controversy has dominated the national news for the past few days over the abrupt firing of a midlevel black Agriculture Department official for comments she made that...
The political story in the July 16 Butler Eagle, updating the fundraising status of incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper and Republican challenger Mike Kelly ...
As the families and friends of Shawn Baur and Scott Fosnaught remembered their loved ones on Saturday, eight years after their deaths on Cashdollar Road in Forward Towns...
Yesterday's front page headline describing Sunday's public tour of Butler Memorial Hospital's new surgical tower said it well: "Hospital puts on a show."
The new surgica...
An article last week in the New York Times reporting on an investigation by the Office of Congressional Ethics revealed some sobering facts. To those who don't think muc...
