The past week was anything but pleasant for thousands of Butler County residents. Thanks to the remnants of Hurricane Ike, many areas of the county were left without pow...
U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., should step down or be removed as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
Rangel has displayed, at the very least, gla...
As Butler County's "Ike Cleanup" continues — a task likely to take weeks if not months — most people understandably are dealing with the concerns of the present rather t...
Like a drunken driver walking away from a fatal car accident, it looks like some of the people responsible for the current financial crisis on Wall Street have already w...
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...
