Excessive secrecy makes government less trustworthy and the public less safe. But it's on the increase in Washington.
The accelerating push to hide government workings f...
The Slippery Rock School Board is right in getting parents involved early on in determining whether changes at the district's three elementary schools could improve the ...
Unlike many teachers' unions, which have staunchly opposed contract proposals stipulating that teachers share the cost of health care coverage, it's encouraging — from t...
The McCain-Palin ticket is having remarkable success with its revolutionary campaign tactic that I call: "Lying Eyes."
I've named it after that classic joke about a man ...
The Pennsylvania State Police should be what the name implies — state police — not municipal police.
And, appropriately, that thinking again is being advanced in the Gen...
When our founding fathers contemplated a government "of the people, by the people," they expected that free elections would guarantee this ideal. However, "by the people...
Planners of Saturday's 30th annual Butler Fall Festival deserve plaudits for their determined efforts to assemble an event larger than any of the preceding 29.
While rai...
Reports of a coming energy boom in Pennsylvania might sometimes sound like hyperbole or blue-sky dreaming, but there is solid geologic evidence supporting the heated int...
In their effort to ensure adequate police protection for Seven Fields residents, members of the borough council, having failed to gain other municipalities' support for ...
There might not have been any viable alternative to last weekend's announcement of a government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but the public sh...
