News
Photo Essay: Candidates Canvass Perkasie Neighborhoods During Pennridge Democrats’ Day of Action
Democrats are talking to voters and listening to their concerns.
Amy Knecht
July 29, 2025
Amy Knecht
News
Photo Essay: ‘Hands Off’ Quakertown Rally Draws 1,000 Protesters
There were protests all across Bucks County Saturday as part of a national wave of dissent against the Trump administration and Elon Musk.
Amy Knecht
April 6, 2025
News
Photo Essay: Bucks County Celebrates Its 3rd Annual Juneteenth Event in Doylestown
This year’s theme, Back To Roots, focuses on health and wellbeing.
Amy Knecht
June 19, 2024
Culture
Book Review – The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress And The Road to Civil War
The author’s depictions of congressional violence and polarized politics strike a nerve as the political and social climate of today is eerily similar.
Amy Knecht
February 16, 2024
Culture
A Concrete Love Affair: A Photographic Exploration of Henry Mercer’s Fonthill Castle
Mercer had described Fonthill as a combination of “the poetry of the past with convenience of the present.”
Amy Knecht
April 28, 2023
News
Teacher Contract Negotiations Drag On In Palisades School District, Parents Begin to Speak Out
Parents are wondering how long before these teachers start seeking jobs in other Bucks County school districts.
Amy Knecht
December 7, 2022
Opinion
Four Months without a Contract, Palisades Teachers Are Frustrated and Speaking Up
Compared to other local school districts, Palisades teachers receive among the lowest professional salaries in Bucks County.
Amy Knecht
October 28, 2022
News
Quakertown Couple Advocates Support for Abortion Rights with Weekly Rallies
Don’t mourn, organize!
Amy Knecht
October 7, 2022
Uncategorized
Pennridge School Board President Sounds Off On Books and Trans Students in Radio Interview
District parents and students need to attend Monday’s policy meeting, as the far-right school board plans to outdo Central Bucks’ new regressive library policy.
Amy Knecht
July 28, 2022
Could Pennsylvania’s Budget Impasse End Up in Court?
August 28, 2025
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
OPINION: Trump’s Troop Deployments in Cities Across the US Are Dress Rehearsals for Nullifying Your Vote
August 27, 2025
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
‘Victory for Pennsylvania Voters and Our Democracy’: Court Rules State Must Stop Throwing out Mail Ballots Over Date Errors
August 26, 2025
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
5 Takeaways From DC’s Organized Resistance to Trump’s Military Occupation
August 26, 2025
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
Pennsylvania Needs an Independent Redistricting Commission to Ensure Fair Representation
August 25, 2025
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
