No one can predict how the appeals process will shake out for former state Rep. Mike Veon of Beaver County and two of his one-time aides — assuming, of course, that appe...
The U.S. House of Representatives' passage of the Senate health care reform bill — a measure that, in the end, might seriously challenge the financial health of many sma...
When it was enacted by the Pennsylvania Legislature after the Johnstown Flood of 1936, the so-called Johnstown Flood Tax was intended to be a temporary levy to help the ...
Many Butler School District taxpayers might accept $10,000 as a reasonable price to pay for keeping the date of the district's graduation ceremony — June 4 — unchanged.
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At colleges in California and across the country, students gathered early this month to protest budget cuts targeting financial support for higher education. The student...
Anyone caught stealing from the taxpayers should serve prison time. There should be no exceptions.
But if a plea agreement filed Monday is accepted, a former head of the...
If there weren't disagreements on the Evans City Borough Council over the way business is being conducted, it's unlikely that some borough officials would be calling for...
An analysis by USA Today found that government workers make more money than their private-sector counterparts and have vastly more generous fringe benefits, facts that w...
The state should not grant a special exemption to the South Butler School District permitting the district to forgo making up four snow days.
Other school districts in t...
Butler County is fortunate to have been experiencing a slow melting of last month's heavy snow. That alleviated some — but not all — of the fears about the potential for...
