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The event at Middletown Friends Meeting House on Oct. 15 offers patrons a chance to experience a one-of-a kind Philadelphia abolitionist’s story in “The Return of Benjamin Lay.”
If Democrats pick up four seats in November for a 51-seat majority, that could potentially put Fetterman in an influential position.
Concerned about surging energy demand fueled by data centers, environmental groups urge state regulators to increase minimum protective buffer distances around gas wells.
“I don’t believe we can stop ICE detentions, but we can document what is happening and we can help in the long run,” said Stephanie Vincent, Montco Community Watch lead organizer.
The nation eliminated the domestic spread of measles in 2000 by maintaining high vaccination rates, but those rates have fallen in recent years to below the 95% coverage needed to prevent outbreaks.
Opinion
Jean Nycz, a 30-year resident of Bucks County, writes that it comes down to values.
Democracy can’t just be something to ask people to defend. We have to rebuild the places where people actually practice it.
To our fellow Americans: This is not the time to look away.
The Democratic governor has shown himself to be voucher-curious in the past.
The independent candidate for state representative in Pennsylvania’s 143rd district argues that the two-party abortion debate presents a false choice—and that protecting reproductive freedom while building the economic conditions that make motherhood a genuine choice offers a path beyond party rhetoric toward a common goal.
Education
The Democratic governor has shown himself to be voucher-curious in the past.
The findings from the 2023-24 school year are based on the latest civil rights data released from the U.S. Department of Education.
Expulsion is currently banned within Head Start, which serves nearly 700,000 predominantly low-income kids. Temporary suspensions can only be used in extreme circumstances and as a last resort.
“Book bans impede the freedom to read, cutting students’ access to a diversity of views, voices, perspectives, and literature they deserve to encounter,” the report “Banned in the USA” states.
Central Bucks School Board Member Karen Smith recounts her time on the front lines of the "school board wars" defending her district against book banners.
Elections
Public records give a closer look at the hardware — or paper fallbacks — behind voter check-in throughout Philadelphia and its collar counties.
"Bucks and Montgomery County voters are seeing that a decade in Washington has changed Fitzpatrick, and it’s time to send someone different who will fight the corruption that is costing Pennsylvanians,” said DCCC Spokesperson Eli Cousin.
Jean Nycz, a 30-year resident of Bucks County, writes that it comes down to values.
“It’s the economy, stupid. That’s what it is. I mean, things have gotten so bad,” radio host Victor Martinez said. “People didn’t think Biden did a good job. Everything was expensive and now it’s worse.”
Data centers figure in state and federal races in states like Pennsylvania and are the subject of dozens of ballot measures.
Democratic candidates and party leaders focused on the cost of living, health care, government accountability and the race to unseat Trump-backed Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick.
