I talk to this Bucks County author and poet about his book "American Carnage" and why he feels compelled as a retired military officer and mental health professional to speak out about the threat former President Donald Trump poses to U.S. democracy.
The public is invited to attend the meet and greet event and engage with elected local and state officials, including the Council Rock alumni and California Rep. Khanna.
Library books, a lawsuit, and Right-To-Know requests were blamed for the ever escalating legal bills, but the exact price tag remains a tightly guarded mystery.
Republican state lawmakers are “hurting their own constituents” who attend University of Pittsburgh, Penn State, and Temple University, says Democratic Rep. Nick Pisciottano.
Library books, a lawsuit, and Right-To-Know requests were blamed for the ever escalating legal bills, but the exact price tag remains a tightly guarded mystery.
“The system’s failures are particularly placed upon the shoulders of low income children and children of color,” said Public Interest Law Center Senior Attorney Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg.
The CBSD Fair Votes map incorporates voter roll data, in addition to population, and provides voters with the ability to vote for a school board director every other year.
New Pennsylvania Project CEO Kadida Kenner said the new measure “will undoubtedly help to close the voter registration gap, especially in communities of color where the gap is the most pronounced.”
Pennsylvania high schools play an important role in registering first-time voters, but could be doing more by actively supporting in-school voter registration drives.
Amid ongoing attacks on democracy and the state’s electoral process, organizations like Common Cause and the League of Women Voters are focused on ensuring that voters are well-informed, engaged, and actually voting in local elections.
If the Bucks County Beacon is going to be here for the long haul, and save the area from becoming a news desert where extremism and authoritarianism flourishes, we need the community to invest in our independent media project.