Last week's announcement of a new Rite Aid drugstore to be built on the corner of South Main and East Jefferson streets as the first phase of the Centre City project was...
President George W. Bush's approval rating is far below what the nation's chief executive would like it to be. But the president gets a high approval rating for signing ...
The Butler County commissioners' plan to increase the property tax assessment rate to 100 percent of 1969 values from 75 percent will, at least for a few years, eliminat...
Congress is pushing a smart bill that would greatly expand college aid to military veterans coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan. But President Bush has said he would v...
Even with Gov. Ed Rendell's assurance that the proposed deal to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike is a good idea, there is much more to be learned about the complex, 75-ye...
Last week, when the average price of regular unleaded gasoline nationwide hit a new high of $3.73 a gallon, Congress voted to order President Bush to stop buying oil for...
With a slot machine gambling law on the books, Pennsylvania should be focused on getting all of its proposed casinos up and running and fine-tuning its gambling regulato...
The alleged payment of generous year-end bonuses to state House and Senate legislative staffers in late 2006 involved $3.6 million in taxpayer funds. Now, as the investi...
There's nothing wrong with the South Butler School Board being undecided at this time about whether to enact a property tax increase for the 2008-09 fiscal year, which b...
Evans City Elementary School third-graders have a better understanding of the borough and its workings as a result of touring government and community facilities on Tues...
