Site last updated: Sunday, May 10, 2026

Log In

Reset Password
MENU
Butler County's great daily newspaper
Other Voices
Education, collaboration key to moving forward
May 08, 2026 Other Voices
May 06, 2026 Other Voices
Conservatism is in decline. True, it’s not dead — in 2025, a larger share of Americans described themselves as conservative, 35%, than liberal, 28%, but this seven-point ...
May 06, 2026 Other Voices
Few dispute that America’s public debt is growing unsustainably and that, sooner or later, the task of reining it in will be unavoidable. Oddly, this presumption of inevi...
May 05, 2026 Other Voices
No amount of advertising money can sell a bad product — or at least, a product that consumers have determined they don’t want (see: New Coke). This time-tested business p...
May 04, 2026 Other Voices
Healthy soil doesn’t usually make headlines, but it should. Beneath every productive farm is a living system that quietly determines whether crops thrive or struggle, wh...
May 01, 2026 Other Voices
The resignations of three members of Congress over misconduct allegations demonstrate that the U.S. House — which most Americans think can’t get its act together — not on...
April 29, 2026 Other Voices
I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a system that was imperfect in its origins but evo...
April 28, 2026 Other Voices
Noncompete agreements, once reserved for executives with unique access to trade secrets, have gone mainstream in America. According to the Government Accountability Offi...
April 27, 2026 Other Voices
When will the U.S. government confirm that aliens exist? How many people will fall ill with measles this year? Will President Donald Trump be impeached? Today, you can be...
April 24, 2026 Other Voices
Read More
TODAY'S PHOTOS