The most important question isn't whether there will be upfront costs associated with having the county's 911 center handle all calls to the city police. No one is denyi...
A convergence of political, cultural and economic events suggests that a tipping point has been reached in the United States on the issue of global warming.
For years, t...
For the last half-decade, Butler residents listened and watched as city officials regularly bemoaned the critical state of their municipality's finances. Indeed, there w...
The photos on the front page of Thursday's Butler Eagle dealing with Wednesday morning's plane crash at the Butler County Airport depicted a scene that seemed destined t...
The Community Development Corporation of Butler County deserves positive notice for its role in helping to secure a financing package from the state for Verizon Wireless...
State lawmakers, who now express near-universal regret over the controversial 2005 pay-raise vote, suggest that their 2001 pension-grab vote is different — and nobody ca...
Pennsylvania's open-records law will provide an early glimpse at how much genuine reform and improved transparency can be expected from the new session of the General As...
With his "Prescription for Pennsylvania,"Gov. Ed Rendell is proposing a comprehensive program to move closer to universal coverage while at the same time reducing health...
The state Department of Transportation offers a weak excuse in trying to justify why it wants to reduce the width of a curve at Center and Fairview avenues tied to const...
In offering a comprehensive health care reform proposal, Gov. Ed Rendell is joining the governors of Massachusetts and California in taking bold steps to reform health c...