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Cheers & Jeers . . .
Zelienople’s aggressiveness in regard to improvements at the borough’s community park is worthy of notice.
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Honoring Robert Smith was easy for SRU, region
While Robert M. Smith’s retirement party on Jan. 28 honored the man who guided Slippery Rock University to major accomplishments during his nine years as president, it also provided the opportunity to reflect on how the university has been a unifying force not only for Butler County but also for the region that the university primarily serves.
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| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
Campaign pledges stand
I would like to comment on Itzi Meztli’s letter to the editor of Jan. 29, “Don’t hide salary facts.”
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Viewpoints challenged
Theresa Rice’s letter of Jan. 31 decrying attacks on government property displaying religious imagery is short on actual argumentation for her position.
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2 enriched community
On Jan. 28, I had the opportunity — perhaps I should say honor — of attending two retirement parties.
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Rescind mandate
On Jan. 20, U.S. Department of Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reaffirmed the “Preventive Service Mandate” part of “ObamaCare” that mandates all group health insurance plans to include contraception, sterilization procedures and pharmaceuticals that result in abortion.
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Performance memorable
What a perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon — being entertained by the beautiful music and words of the newly formed JAL (Jesus Alive and Living Butler District Youth Group) as its members presented a sampling of songs from the musical “Godspell.”
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Comment troubling
Having read the Jan. 29 Cheers & Jeers column, I just had to comment.
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Pay rebellion ahead?
I feel compelled to write after reading the Butler Eagle’s Jan. 27 editorial criticizing the Butler County commissioners’ effort to have a “salary study” that would cover all nonunion county employees.
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| COLUMNISTS |
George Will |
Focusing on world of fatherlessness
LOS ANGELES — The worst day of Sugar Bear’s 55 years was one of the days — there have been many of them — when he got out of prison. In the early 1990s, in a prison where persons whose sentences have ended and are being released, and who see those whose sentences are just beginning, he saw one of his sons coming in.
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Feb. 3, 1959: The music didn’t really die
The Jan. 20 death of 72-year-old rhythm-and-blues legend Etta James, just three days after the death of her mentor, bandleader Johnny Otis, is a sad reminder that the early pioneers of rock-n-roll are a dying breed.
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