News
Democrats may have won the battle and flipped the Pennridge school board in 2023, but the culture war rages on.
Ehasz’s unwavering support for teachers and public education was highlighted in contrast to Republican incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick’s support for extremist Moms for Liberty-backed school board candidates.
Advocates for the unhoused in Bucks County weigh in on what this decision could mean for our most vulnerable community members.
Here are results from some closely watched races locally, and across the state.
“Keeping people in poverty is not how we move the Commonwealth forward – our current wage is immoral and unjustifiable,” said the Philadelphia County lawmaker.
Opinion
Democracy is on the ballot in November and Bucks County Democrats are wasting no time making sure voters are aware what's at stake.
If the Supreme Court rules against the right of people to sleep outdoors, it would only make homelessness harder to prevent.
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
While the Bucks County Republican disingenuously tries to distance himself from Trump and the authoritarian MAGA agenda, his record in its entirety proves otherwise.
Project 2025’s Mandate is iconoclastic and dystopian, offering a dark vision of a highly militaristic and unapologetically aggressive America ascendant in “a world on fire”.
Education
Democrats may have won the battle and flipped the Pennridge school board in 2023, but the culture war rages on.
Ehasz’s unwavering support for teachers and public education was highlighted in contrast to Republican incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick’s support for extremist Moms for Liberty-backed school board candidates.
Republican Pennridge school board director Ricki Chaikin was one of the guests.
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania School Directors Coalition founder Christina Brussalis is tight-lipped about who’s funding the organization, who’s on the board, and whether they are working with the Independence Law Center.
Students want to learn and express themselves about what’s happening in the Middle East. We need to embrace that, not run away from it.
Elections
Democracy is on the ballot in November and Bucks County Democrats are wasting no time making sure voters are aware what's at stake.
While the Bucks County Republican disingenuously tries to distance himself from Trump and the authoritarian MAGA agenda, his record in its entirety proves otherwise.
Ehasz’s unwavering support for teachers and public education was highlighted in contrast to Republican incumbent Brian Fitzpatrick’s support for extremist Moms for Liberty-backed school board candidates.
Here are results from some closely watched races locally, and across the state.
Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are fear-mongering over noncitizen voting, which is among the oldest tactics in American electoral politics.
The differences between the economic plans of the presidential nominees are as different as night and day. As President Biden crisscrosses the state, former president Trump sits in a courtroom facing felony charges.
You’ve got just one Congressman, Bucks County. Here’s what he’s up to.
Recent Votes:
- H.R. 4755: Privacy Enhancing Technology Research Act April 29, 2024Vote: Passed 354/36 Rep. Fitzpatrick [R-PA1]: Yea
- H.R. 4866: Fire Weather Development Act of 2023 April 29, 2024Vote: Passed 341/48 Rep. Fitzpatrick [R-PA1]: Yea
- H.R. 7372: Defending Borders, Defending Democracies Act April 24, 2024Enacted — Signed by the President: Some of this bill was incorporated into H.R. 815: Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes., which was enacted (🖊️ by president) on April 24, 2024.
- H.R. 7372: Defending Borders, Defending Democracies Act April 23, 2024Passed House & Senate (President next): Some of this bill was incorporated into H.R. 815: Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes., which passed the House and Senate on April 23, 2024.