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
Pennsylvania Homeless Advocates Condemn Trump’s Plans to Punish the Unhoused, Involuntarily Commit Them
August 7, 2025
“Homelessness is caused by poverty,” said Estelle Richman, HUD Chief Operating Officer during the Obama administration. “These are poor people … Many of them are working. They just don’t have enough money to pay the rent.”
80 Years After the US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Nuclear Threat Remains Grave
August 5, 2025
Nuclear war is a real and present danger that we must acknowledge and confront, writes Ira Helfand.
Rivot Magazine Provides Bucks County a Much-needed Print Music and News Publication With a Punk Rock Ethos
August 4, 2025
Founder James Lamb said print media was a void that needed to be filled. “I just really like a physical, handheld thing that can be saved, that can migrate when I drop one at the bus stop.”
DOJ’s Demand for State Voter Lists Are a Major Battleground in Fights Over Access to the Polls
August 4, 2025
The Trump administration wants to scoop up voter registration lists and other election data from all 50 states.
New Pennsylvania Project Opens Office in Bensalem, Its First in Bucks County
August 2, 2025
The nonpartisan voting rights organization wants everyone in the county to be registered, educated, engaged and active voters.
