The reluctance of the Butler Area Sewer Authority to allocate 45 tap-ins at this juncture for the proposed Butler Crossing shopping center and office building makes sens...
The name of Michael Herschl's company is Wishy-Washy, but the results from the 10-year-old's efforts are anything but wishy-washy. He deserves much praise for the entrep...
Perhaps the American public is overreacting to the signing statement President George W. Bush attached to new postal legislation last month.
But judging from the respons...
Former state House Speaker John Perzel just couldn't go back to being a regular lawmaker. After losing the speaker's post to fellow Republican Dennis O'Brien in a series...
No one has ever accused Oprah Winfrey of hiding her talents — or her generosity — under a bushel basket. Her most recent charitable venture, chronicled in Newsweek and P...
It might have been an oversight that the Butler Township police apparently failed to issue a news release about a theft of $2,270 in Alameda Park Pool receipts last Augu...
Jonathan Newman resigned as chairman of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board last week in protest over Gov. Ed Rendell's backroom deal to install a former state lawmake...
Many Pennsylvania lawmakers, including some of the most low-key in the General Assembly, are voicing anger over the selection of the new speaker of the House of Represen...
More than five years after Sept. 11, 2001, only six U.S. areas have responded fully to the urgent plea of a New York fire battalion chief on that fateful day who lamente...
The surprise selection of Republican state Rep. Dennis M. O'Brien as speaker of the House by Demo-crats, who have a one-person majority, can be applauded as a long-overd...
