Normally, when a Harrisburg lawmaker announces his or her plans to retire, it's cause for celebration — and a chance to hope for change. Having entrenched state lawmaker...
It's good that Butler City Council hasn't started publicly speculating about the prospects for a 2009 property tax reduction in response to the estimated $1.2 million su...
The three new Mars School Board members should get up to speed on the district's bus stop issues, particularly the proposed stop at Fox Trot Drive and Route 228.
The Fox...
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Crimes committed against the able-bodied are bad enough. Crimes committed against the handicapped display an even greater degree of inhumanity.
Thus, if John Pau...
Pennsylvania has compiled a lackluster report card in overseeing the spending of hundreds of millions of dollars in homeland security grants that the federal government ...
Much has been made of the failure in Harrisburg to enact meaningful legislative reforms in the wake of the controversial pay-raise vote of 2005 that awakened voters to t...
As long as a new Slippery Rock Borough citizens group remains committed to being an asset, rather than a disruptive force, it could be the foundation for positive result...
Obituaries in the newspaper primarily announce a death. But they also offer a glimpse of a life, and quite often a remarkable life.
On Jan. 1, the Butler Eagle reviewed ...
Based on discussion at last Tuesday's Butler County Prison Board meeting, it is clear that the two new county commissioners have a task facing them that they might not h...
As a Dec. 31 Butler Eagle editorial observed, the Saxonburg Borough Council failed to exercise courtesy when it removed Frank Ballina from the Saxonburg Area Authority b...
