For weeks, they had been misleading Pennsylvanians by claiming the state budget couldn’t use surplus funding for investments in schools, housing, and vital services for families and communities.
Voting rights and our access to the ballot in Pennsylvania are under attack.
Voters in the Commonwealth showed this year that they wouldn’t stand for big-money donors distorting our state courts. Well, it’s time to do the same for our federal courts.
To protect fair and impartial justice, Pennsylvania voters need to turn out in huge numbers.
A flood of ethics scandals and a plummeting approval rate for the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s times like these that Pennsylvanians should have some gratitude for our own state courts.
Proponents of this voter suppression often employ dishonest and disingenuous racist dog whistles to make their case. Journalists shouldn’t uncritically print them.
So long as our state courts remain fair and impartial, extremists won’t be able to shamelessly trample on our rights and freedoms.
New Pennsylvania Project CEO Kadida Kenner’s keynote address on voting rights at the 34th Annual Dr. King Commemorative event Sunday in Media, PA.
It’s hard to overstate how important state courts are to maintaining rights and freedoms.
It started well before the pandemic and continues today. A key reason is experiences of racism within the larger school district that affect Black teachers across the system, but manifest differently depending on their schools’ locations.
The U.S. Department of Energy is dangling $750 million for the buildout of a hydrogen hub around Philadelphia. But the looming Trump presidency and strong economic headwinds endanger its prospects.
Lake Angela was moved by her own experiences with schizophrenia and the stories of the treatment patients in her dance therapy groups faced at the psychiatric institution.
The move to erase attention to anti-bias and culture in schools is grounded in denial that concerns about systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc., are real.
The Coalition to Shelter & Support the Homeless provides the county’s unhoused individuals with more than 1,000 bed nights each year.