Opinion
Enough is Way Past Enough with School Shootings in Our Country
It is time for mass rallies that won’t quit, writes Bucks County mom Emily French.
Emily French
March 30, 2023
Emily French
Culture
“Walls Turned Sideways Are Bridges”: A Review of ‘An Autobiography’ by Angela Davis
Angela Davis embodies this Black History Month’s theme of Black Resistance.
Emily French
February 10, 2023
Culture
Time to Press the Reset on SCOTUS
A review of Thom Hartmann’s book “The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America.”
Emily French
December 2, 2022
Culture
Progressive Organizing Is What Wins Elections and Makes Democracy Work
A review of “Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections.”
Emily French
October 17, 2022
Culture
Work as the Way out of Poverty: A Myth
Twenty-one years after its publication, we as a society still haven’t learned the lessons from Barbara Ehrenreich’s book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.
Emily French
September 29, 2022
Culture
Give Love to Students: Keep ‘The Hate U Give’ in School Libraries
According to the American Library Association, Angie Thomas’s book was the fifth most challenged in 2021. It should be read by students (and their parents), not banned from schools.
Emily French
September 18, 2022
Culture
Loving Mother Earth and Receiving Her Love Back
Robin Wall Kimmerer in her book “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants” discusses through Indigenous storytelling and plant science solutions for fixing the planet.
Emily French
August 19, 2022
Culture
Are You Ready to Be a Jane?
Judith Arcana’s “Hello. This is Jane” tells the story of an underground abortion network pre-Roe v. Wade. This book should be read as a how-to manual now that women find themselves in the same oppressive and dangerous reality prior to 1973.
Emily French
July 22, 2022
Culture
Thinking Respectfully, Thinking Restoratively
A Review of “The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives.”
Emily French
July 7, 2022
The GOP’s Budget Bill and Its Federal Funding Cuts Will Harm Bucks County Students
July 3, 2025
“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
State Senator Steve Santarsiero: It’s Possible to Be an Advocate for the Homeless and Believe Encampments Are Not a Good Idea
July 2, 2025
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
Supreme Court Provides Cover for Bigotry Draped in the Fig Leaf of Religion With LGBTQ School Books Decision
July 1, 2025
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
Head Start in Bucks County Saved, Federal Funding Extended for Next 5 Years
June 30, 2025
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
Regulatory Sandbox Proposed by Republican Pennsylvania Lawmaker Would Allow Businesses to Sidestep State Environmental Regulations
June 30, 2025
“This bill would allow you to set aside any state law, you could pollute the air as much as you want, you could pollute the water as much as you want, you could do anything essentially that you wanted that would ordinarily violate the law,” said former Secretary for PA’s Department of Environmental Protection David Hess.
