People who make themselves available for elected and appointed public positions should not remain in those positions if, for whatever reason, they are unavailable for re...
A.G. Cullen Construction Co. subcontractors who have decided to remain on the job, despite Cullen's decision to walk off the new-prison project due to a pay dispute with...
In these final days of the current Butler County Board of Commissioners, taxpayers are justified in asking why it opted to hire a private security firm to guard the new,...
The state's school employee pension fund has seen healthy investment returns this year, but instead of resulting in lower taxpayer contributions, the Pennsylvania School...
As Butler County residents prepared to celebrate Christmas, they also faced the unhappy reminder of a virtually unimaginable tragedy that gripped news pages in 2005. Ami...
In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
And all...
Cheer C
Although hunger is a year-round issue for many Americans, the holiday season is when the issue becomes more visible.
Food cupboards do important work and recent...
Energy is on the minds of just about everyone these days. Gasoline prices are the most visible of our energy costs, and oil at $100-a-barrel is a shock.
In winter, the f...
What a difference a year makes, or doesn't.
Following months of bickering, Congress this week took what should have been 11 separate bills and produced a mammoth 2,500 p...
Pennsylvania's General Assembly is known to be the largest and one of the most-expensive legislatures in the nation. It's also known that our state lawmakers employ more...
