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.
Proposed funding cuts in the draft budget “would impact our ability to do similar investigations and ensure student safety in the future,” said Jennifer Garman, CEO of Philadelphia-based Disability Rights Pennsylvania.
Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk, according to one person who was briefed on what occurred.
Critics of the potential local 287(g) partnership raised concerns over racial profiling, wrongful arrests, lack of due process, and community safety. However, supporters also turned out raising the issues of human trafficking, crime, and alleged treason.
At the first two hearings, some folks brought receipts, and some brought excuses, while the cyber charters themselves declined to appear at all.
Gallego travels to Pennsylvania’s First Congressional District and will be joined by Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, who is running against Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, “to engage the constituents Fitzpatrick is ignoring as he backs his party’s reckless budget resolution.”
