We spoke with NAACP Bucks County President Adrienne King and Co-Lead of Bucks County Anti-Racism Coalition Kevin E. Leven. The local McDonald’s franchises we reached out to all refused to reply or respond.
Abbott will be speaking at the 21st annual Pennsylvania Conference for Women in Philadelphia.
The event “allows our YWCA to honor our mission of eliminating racism and empowering women, and also to raise much needed funds to support the programs and services that support women, girls, and families here in Bucks County.”
The Bucks County Beacon spoke with Americans United for Separation of Church and State’s Rachel Laser about Project 2025 and Christian extremists’ efforts to take away our freedoms.
Sellersville’s Cindy Benedict says her top concerns going into November are “equality for women, for families that aren’t traditional families, voting rights,” while also singling out the dangers of Project 2025.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection had joined a pipeline company’s efforts to prevent challenges of its permits by the state’s Environmental Hearing Board. Thankfully they were rebuffed.
Democratic Representative Lisa A. Borowski is working on a bill that would provide “the option to terminate a lease [early] and the ability to change the locks or means of entry to a housing unit” to help protect survivors.
“Keeping people in poverty is not how we move the Commonwealth forward – our current wage is immoral and unjustifiable,” said the Philadelphia County lawmaker.
This would bolster the economy, improve public safety, strengthen communities, and is just the humane thing to do, advocates argue.
“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.
“Anyone who visited Starbucks at 2896 S. Eagle Road in Newtown between 10:50 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on March 19 should monitor for symptoms,” the Bucks County Health Department warns.
“These bills will protect health care coverage for Pennsylvanians, regardless of what happens at the federal level,” said state Rep. Perry Warren.
