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...
Amid all of the negative economic news coming out of Washington,D.C., and Harrisburg, there was a bit of good news last month. The proposed merger of health insurance gi...
The water violation notification posted on the front doors of Moniteau High School is proof that the state Department of Environmental Protection remains firm in requiri...
Those who believe that it's less expensive and less difficult to save jobs than it is to create new ones appreciate the Butler County commissioners' decision to approve ...
When the federal government faced strong criticism in late 2005 for its response to Hurricane Katrina, the solution seemed to be to throw a lot of money at the problem —...
It's better to have a foot in the door than to be locked outside with no hope of gaining access.
That's the attitude rightly being expressed by officials in this county ...
