The Butler Soapbox

11/22/2024

Snow is starting to stick, be careful out there this morning!

11/21/2024

Get yours!

A measuring cup labeled "Made in the USA" was actually made in China.

11/21/2024

Tariffs!

“Revenue raised by tariffs would fall well short of what is needed to fully offset the revenue losses of making the expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) permanent.”

11/21/2024

The gas you don’t even want- but for less!

Sheetz drops prices on 88 gas for Thanksgiving travelers. https://www.wkok.com/pennsylvania-based-gas-station-chain-cuts-gas-prices-for-thanksgiving-travel/

11/21/2024

That BASA money is already burning a hole in their pockets.

Despite a proposed increase of about $9.7 million in expenditures, Butler Township’s advertised 2025 budget does not include a tax increase, and the township will maintain the same millage rate it…

11/18/2024

So Roger Goodell has suggested the NFL is interested in a Dublin, Ireland game for part of their international series.

That seems like a very real possibility. The Soapbox thinks if it does happen it will have connections to the Steelers organization and the Steelers are likely to host one of their home games on the Emerald Isle next season.

You may remember Dan Rooney served in the Obama administration as Ambassador to Ireland during the first term. Seems like a good fit all around.

11/17/2024

Get slightly more bang for your buck.

What's the real value of $100 in your metropolitan area?

The differences in purchasing power can be large and they have significant implications for the relative impact of economic and tax policies across the United States: https://hubs.ly/Q02YmHGp0

11/16/2024

It’s always interesting to see the quotes from people in the community who themselves live in developments complaining about the possible issues brought on by further development.

For all the consternation about a wave of residential development in Buffalo Township, Drew Klemens saw it coming 13 years ago, when he moved across from a cornfield now slated to become 627 units of upscale town homes and single-family houses. “Nobody is going to come out to this area

11/15/2024

Found a use for that $100M sewer windfall.

Butler could totally unseat Greensburg and New Castle.

Pennsylvania celebrates the holiday season in many ways, but some go all out. Here are the nine most festival Christmas Towns in Pennsylvania.

11/15/2024

This will essentially be another Meeder development much like Charter’s Hastings plan located outside of Bridgeville (but will it also get a Recon Brewing?)

The Soapbox just can’t see Buffalo Twp generating the kind of demand and sustaining the kind of price points of Charter’s other projects.

In both Meeder and Hastings the cheapest townhomes are in the upper $300’s with most well over $400k- and there are dozens of them.

This feels like the kind of development that would be better suited in Mars School District than Freeport. Perhaps though there simply isn’t 100+ acres of developable land along 8 or 228 to host it?

11/15/2024

Chalk one up for the Mars Patriots!

Now if the Thomas More Society would just help them put together a budget without a tax increase they would be in business.

The lawsuit against the teaching guidelines was brought by a group of Western Pa. school districts, teachers, and parents, and funded by the conservative Thomas More Society.

11/14/2024

Kelly should have an asterisks permanently affixed to all these posts and every ribbon cutting or ground breaking photo op-

*Voted against the bill providing this funding

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This week, following support from U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), the U.S. Department of Transportation announced $11,250,000 in grant funding for a project led by Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority to replace the Parade Street slip dock wall in Erie.In May, Rep. Kelly wrote a...

11/14/2024

Looks a lot better than the 50% increase they are proposing over the border in Allegheny.

Butler County will not be raising taxes next year. The proposed 2025 county budget was unveiled yesterday, and it keeps the millage rate the same for all county residents. The […]

11/14/2024

It could very well be an Onion headline.

Between this and things like Musk being named to head up “DOGE” are we just living in a meme now?

The sale ends Jones’s 25-year run controlling the conspiracy theorist website that peddled claims the Sandy Hook school shooting was a “hoax.”

11/14/2024

Crazy story- but the Soapbox has to ask what colors do people see in the Ambridge crest shown in the image on the article?

A student at the Ambridge Area Middle School used a water gun to distract district staff from a real weapon he was smuggling into the building this week. The 13-year-old boy was able to carry a handgun past metal detectors two days in a row, before another student alerted school administrators his l...

11/14/2024

How do they always find the county partisan yahoos to talk to for these stories?

Ask residents from Butler, the county now known around the world as the place where an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump took place,...

11/14/2024

Will they try to run her as Governor or hold out for the ‘28 US Senate race?

She doesn’t seem nutty enough for a GOP Gov candidate.

Republican State Treasurer Stacy Garrity’s reelection last week appears to have garnered the largest vote total ever recorded by a candidate for statewide office in Pennsylvania.

11/13/2024

Pedestrian Hit and Run Investigation

Cranberry Township Police are currently investigating a crash involving a pedestrian who was hit and run between 6:45am – 7:00am on the morning of November 13, 2024.

The 28 year-old male victim was walking south along Franklin Road near the intersection of Mars-Crider Road when he was struck. The victim was transported to Allegheny General Hospital with serious injuries.

The suspect vehicle will have damage to the front passenger area.

The Cranberry Township Police Department is asking anyone who may have been in the area or witnessed the crash to contact the Cranberry Township Police at 724-776-5180 ext. 5 or the Butler County Communications Center at 724-282-1221.