Could Pennsylvania Legalize Marijuana In 2024? Advocates Make The Case For An Adult-Use Cannabis Law
Neighboring states Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Ohio have all already legalized it.
Neighboring states Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Ohio have all already legalized it.
Upset with Republicans cutting library staff in half while approving a million dollar district-wide armed police force, as well as ramming through the appointment of a controversial superintendent – voters said enough!
The nonprofit that organizes the annual Bucks-Mont PRIDE Festival provides “safe and brave” spaces for LGBTQ+ people and allies. And it does so much more.
“Living a life free from gun violence…doesn’t mean going to a school with an armed security guard, where you’re walking through a metal detector and you have to do regulated drills because someone might come and shoot you,” said CeaseFirePA’s Bucks County Organizer Sarah Jones.
“The threat is real and the stakes are high,” said Planned Parenthood Pennsylvania Advocates Executive Director Signe Espinoza.
AFT Pennsylvania President Arthur Steinberg says voucher programs are “harmful,” “anti-public education,” and they “leave kids behind.”
Amid ongoing attacks on democracy and the state’s electoral process, organizations like Common Cause and the League of Women Voters are focused on ensuring that voters are well-informed, engaged, and actually voting in local elections.
In the face of increasing attacks, some librarians have chosen to leave the profession altogether, while others continue to go to work in fear.
Democracy and voting rights can either be protected, or gutted, in the state’s high courts.
There are 480 higher education leaders from across the country who have signed a letter opposing “undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live and work” on their campuses.
“We should be expanding access, not taking it away. Every child deserves a fair and equitable start, and I’ll fight in Congress to protect programs like Head Start that make that possible,” said Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, a Democratic candidate for Congress in PA-01.
The Bucks County Sheriff’s office has an application pending to participate in ICE’s 287(g) “task force model”, which essentially makes local law enforcement officers de facto ICE agents.
There were hundreds of rallies and protests against the Trump Administration across the country Saturday.
The goal of the proposed legislation is to protect women who receive abortions and the doctors and nurses who provide this reproductive health care.
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