A proposal to require high school students in Pennsylvania to pass competency exams to graduate is stirring up controversy here and elsewhere across the state.
At Mars H...
The new approach to discipline that has been implemented in the Grove City School District merits close observation by other school systems. It is a positive approach ba...
In the days leading up to Pennsylvania's primary, white males — those knuckle-dragging, chaw-chompin', beer-swillin' bitter troglodytes — were suddenly the debutante's d...
Butler area state lawmakers have expressed concern about how Gov. Ed Rendell intends to deal with the issue of leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Rightly so.
Lawmakers s...
It shouldn't take nearly a quarter-century for a municipality to determine that certain residents haven't been paying for a municipal service.
But apparently that's what...
The outrage directed at the Pennsylvania General Assembly since a controversial vote nearly three years ago now appears to be dead — or at least experiencing labored bre...
When Butler City Council was presented last month with the idea of erecting a statue of Gen. Richard Butler at the southern entrance to the city, the idea was generally ...
The issue is destined to remain controversial, but Pennsylvania lawmakers are right in joining about 20 other states that are considering expanding the DNA database to i...
I agree with Arthur Urban's letter to the editor of April 20, "Pick jeep, not general."
Urban said "the reason for a jeep monument (at the General Richard Butler Bridge)...
Expanding the county program that uses convicted drunk drivers to pick up litter is one of those ideas that makes so much sense, it's a wonder it didn't happen before.
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