No one can predict what issues might come before the Connoquenessing Township Board of Supervisors this year. It is to be hoped that all business runs smoothly and that ...
Harmony Borough Council was correct last week in rejecting a proposal to reopen the 2005 budget for the purpose of lowering the real estate tax.
Having had to take out a...
Once again, a high-profile CEO has resigned under a cloud and is rewarded with a retirement and benefit package worth many millions of dollars.
The last such golden para...
The Butler County commissioners' decision to ponder the future of Sunnyview Home is an appropriate move at this time, if the county leaders are serious about trying to c...
Politicians often "talk around" controversial issues, rather than provide what most people would regard as a "straight answer." The exercise involves politicians answeri...
U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, brought up an issue Thursday that is deserving of much more discussion in the months ahead a...
Taxpayers of the South Butler School District should respect the fact that the school board is being cautious about granting LERTA (Local Economic Revitalization Tax Act...
Struggling US Airways needs more competition from low-fare carriers just about as much as it needs angry customers and negative publicity. In the past two weeks, it's go...
If there is a solution to the loss of manufacturing jobs in Pennsylvania - the state lost at least 12,500 such jobs in 2004 through November, 1.8 percent of all such job...
Though it took a few days for much of the world to grasp the scope of the death and devastation resulting from the tsunami that his southeast Asia over Christmas weekend...
