The deadline for filing federal income taxes is still six weeks away, but it's worth focusing national attention on taxes, tax collection and tax cheats.
Two of Presiden...
Pennsylvania State Sen. Jeffrey E. Piccola is right in pushing for a lifetime ban on working in schools for those convicted of some serious and violent crimes — and a 10...
The $787 billion stimulus bill has quickly slipped to the background, with the public's attention now focused on details of the stabilization for banks, mortgage relief ...
A Butler man was spared a more severe sentence for his fifth drunken-driving conviction in part because only three of his five DUI convictions occurred during the past 1...
The granite bricks sold to help finance Butler County's World War II Memorial in Diamond Park were a good way to honor honorably discharged veterans while helping to mak...
Steep stock market declines have slashed the value of two Pennsylvania pension funds, one for state employees, including lawmakers, and another for public school teacher...
Pennsylvania residents who feel they were shortchanged on property tax relief that was supposed to materialize after casino gambling was implemented should be skeptical ...
Complicating efforts to pull the nation out of the financial crisis is a serious erosion of public trust in institutions and leaders, in both the public and private sect...
The Butler County Prison Board got good news on Feb. 10 — that constuction of the new prison still is on track for a mid-April completion.
But county taxpayers' relief o...
Nearly every day, the news brings stories of job cuts, layoffs and wage freezes. The struggling economy has every entity with a payroll—from big and small companies to n...
