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“Keeping people in poverty is not how we move the Commonwealth forward – our current wage is immoral and unjustifiable,” said the Philadelphia County lawmaker.
Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are fear-mongering over noncitizen voting, which is among the oldest tactics in American electoral politics.
Student climate justice activist Eliana Atienza shares how the campus organization is working to create change at the University of Pennsylvania.
Republican Pennridge school board director Ricki Chaikin was one of the guests.
Snipes Farm will celebrate Mother Earth with songs, stories, and physical work to protect the farm’s natural environment, as it has in previous years.
Opinion
We need to fight for environmental justice until all marginalized communities have access to clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment. It's a matter of life or death.
If the Supreme Court continues to overturn legal precedents on women's rights, LGBTQ rights, and other issues, old state laws that haven’t been enforced, possibly for centuries, can suddenly spring back to life.
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
Too many communities are responding to rising homelessness by criminalizing the unhoused. It’s more humane and effective to house people.
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.
Education
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.
Local advocates who helped elect the Democratic board majority hope the community will attend and provide in-person support for removing anti-LGBTQ+ bias from the district.
With little to no oversight and accountability, programs like the Educational Improvement Tax Credit are a pipeline sucking taxpayer money out of underfunded public schools and into the pockets of the wealthy.
Elections
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.
Mail voting had been the source of near constant attack and litigation since 2020.
The PGN endorsement is the most recent in a long list of LGBTQ leaders across Pennsylvania who are supporting Khan in the Democratic primary.
Khan recently served as Bucks County Solicitor, was Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of PA before that, and began his career in the Philadelphia DA's office.
The groups, including the state conference of the NAACP and the League of Women Voters, argued the court’s 3-1 decision could disenfranchise “untold thousands” of Pennsylvania voters and millions more across the country if it is more broadly adopted.
You’ve got just one Congressman, Bucks County. Here’s what he’s up to.
Recent Votes:
- H.R. 8034: Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 April 20, 2024Vote: Passed 366/58 Rep. Fitzpatrick [R-PA1]: Yea
- H.R. 8035: Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 April 20, 2024Vote: Passed 311/112 Rep. Fitzpatrick [R-PA1]: Yea
- On Motion to Recommit: H.R. 8035: Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 April 20, 2024Vote: Failed 88/336 Rep. Fitzpatrick [R-PA1]: No
- H.Amdt. 893 (Cammack) to H.R. 8035: To eliminate all non-military funding related to Ukraine. April 20, 2024Vote: Failed 154/272 Rep. Fitzpatrick [R-PA1]: No