As solicitor for Connoquessing Township, lawyer Bob Hawk has the right to respectfully disagree with township residents questioning members of the board of supervisors. ...
Bringing necessary change to the state Legislature from within, through the efforts of "reformers," apparently has failed. This is the conclusion to be drawn from the re...
Pennsylvania residents who thought the state's 2009-10 budget battle couldn't have been much worse might be dismayed to learn that the 2010-11 budget exercise could, in ...
It's not a ghost of Christmases past that Evans City is bringing to Christmas Season 2009. For many community members, it is a bringing-to-life of fond recollections of ...
As the debate over health care reform focuses on bills in the House and Senate, increasing criticism is reflecting public anxiety over the failure of current reform prop...
A significant number of Slippery Rock Borough residents aren't convinced that the borough's police protection is what it should be for that university town. Police staff...
Traffic signals in the shopping areas around Butler that normally are in a blinking mode overnight should not have been allowed to operate that way for the early morning...
Many Butler area residents awoke early today — and maybe even endured a few restless hours before crawling out of bed — to take part in that annual shopping experience c...
What began as a harvest celebration between European settlers and indigenous communities nearly four centuries ago has become our cherished tradition of Thanksgiving. Th...
Thanksgiving was proclaimed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 with these words:
"It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life another year . . . to favor ...