Taking a page from the playbook of credit card companies that have been raising interest rates in advance of the implementation of recently passed laws preventing their ...
Taxpayers of Butler County might not have serious complaints about the way outgoing Sheriff Dennis Rickard has operated his department. Unfortunately, any county residen...
One thing was clear at Thursday evening's Jackson Township supervisors meeting: The supervisors failed to provide enough input in the preparation of a proposed 2010 budg...
The contract dispute in the South Butler School District, now in a waiting game while the school board and teachers union await a nonbinding-arbitration decision, has fo...
Last weekend, the New York Times featured a front-page article revealing that more than two dozen lawmakers entered speeches into the Congressional Record that were writ...
As is routine in elections devoted to local offices, many positions are decided by write-in votes because no one officially sought to have his or her name on the ballots...
Pennsylvanians received another reason to nickname their state legisture the Pennsylvania General Assembly of Corruption last week with the filing of charges against 10 ...
In another example of the mind-set that prevails when spending "other people's money," the state Department of General Services says it cannot account for change orders ...
The 55 volunteers who on Oct. 24 worked to clean Butler's downtown as part of national Make a Difference Day merit much praise.
But also worth praising is the announceme...
There's no way of knowing at this time whether Butler County will decide to sell Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The county commissioners still are in the p...
