Bucks County Beacon Writer Spotlight: Edie Weinstein
As part of our Fall Fund Drive, we are showcasing some of our writers so you can learn more about the people and journalism that you are supporting.
As part of our Fall Fund Drive, we are showcasing some of our writers so you can learn more about the people and journalism that you are supporting.
As part of our Fall Fund Drive, we are showcasing some of our writers so that you can learn more about the people and journalism that you are supporting.
These students from Bucks County will be focusing on PA politics and want the podcast to serve as a call to action for all young people to get involved in the civic process and demand change.
Central Bucks is under fire for allegedly creating a toxic environment for LGBTQ+ students, vindictively targeting a teacher, and spending more than $1 million for reputation laundering.
Barbara Simmons was executive director of The Peace Center for 30 years. She was founding director of PeaceTalks radio, producing documentaries from across the globe. And she continues to be a force for peace and justice in Bucks County.
Frederick Clarkson unpacks this GOP-linked far-right theocratic movement that wants to build a “kingdom revolution” led by an “army of believers” to usher in Christian dominion over what they call the “Seven Mountains”: religion, family, education, government, media, entertainment and business.
On the first half of the show Olivia talks about her undercover reporting at the Moms for Liberty summit in Philadelphia, then Diana joins to explain why she and so many others in Bucks County refuse to co-parent with these extremists.
Brett talks about being a dad to his daughter Lily and what it’s like in this Transphobic moment we find ourselves in nationally, and in Bucks County (specifically in Central Bucks School District).
Weaponizing the DOJ (for Republicans to misuse) is the latest crusade from the right-wing donor group that has bankrolled the Big Lie, sabotaged the separation of church and state, and attacked public education.
The judge ruled that rejecting mail ballots for issues with the date on the outer envelope violates voters’ First Amendment rights, since voting is considered an expression of free speech.
“It is inconceivable that after decades of promises and political posturing, Congress has yet to pass a permanent solution for undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children and other undocumented people,” said Make the Road PA’s Armando Jiménez.
“Danny is a battle-tested patriot who represents the best of his generation. Bucks County will be safer with him as our Sheriff,” said former Bucks County Congressman Patrick Murphy.
We need a representative in Congress who engages not in sophistry, but in truth-telling, and one who has the courage to have in-person town halls open to all their constituents, writes Newtown’s Steve Cickay.
Locally, the cuts have already hacked away about one-third of the $800,000 the federal government had been sending to supplement Bucks County Opportunity Council programs like Fresh Connect.