Gov. Ed Rendell announced recently that employment in Pennsylvania hit an all-time high. No doubt laying the groundwork for re-election, Rendell paints a rosy economic p...
"Road reality check," a front-page story in Sunday's Butler Eagle, left no doubt that Middlesex Township's current road problems are the result of decades of poor leader...
Both the Pennsylvania State Troopers Association and Rendell administration are making reasonable points in the debate surrounding a stalemate over giving civilians seve...
The U.S. House and Senate were right in voting to end federal Medicaid and Medicare payments for erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra.
But the new rule regarding im...
Karns City School District's successful transition to daylong kindergarten from a half-day program should not go without notice.
Just about two months into the change fr...
In a demonstration of misplaced priorities and political histrionics, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, suggested he would quit the U.S. Senate or be taken out "on a stretcher...
Whenever a plan for tax simplification suggests elimination of the mortgage interest deduction, most people have an immediate negative reaction and decide reform is a ba...
Some people don't think Pennsylvania voters have grounds for voting "no" on retaining state Supreme Court Justices Russell Nigro and Sandra Newman in the Nov. 8 general ...
Now that the Pennsylvania Treasury Department has officially notified Butler County Sheriff Dennis Rickard about an upcoming unclaimed-property audit, the sheriff should...
In his effort to repeal the controversial legislative pay-raise and ban the use of the seemingly unconstitutional unvouchered expenses, state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe is also...
