For weeks, they had been misleading Pennsylvanians by claiming the state budget couldn’t use surplus funding for investments in schools, housing, and vital services for families and communities.
Voting rights and our access to the ballot in Pennsylvania are under attack.
Voters in the Commonwealth showed this year that they wouldn’t stand for big-money donors distorting our state courts. Well, it’s time to do the same for our federal courts.
To protect fair and impartial justice, Pennsylvania voters need to turn out in huge numbers.
A flood of ethics scandals and a plummeting approval rate for the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s times like these that Pennsylvanians should have some gratitude for our own state courts.
Proponents of this voter suppression often employ dishonest and disingenuous racist dog whistles to make their case. Journalists shouldn’t uncritically print them.
So long as our state courts remain fair and impartial, extremists won’t be able to shamelessly trample on our rights and freedoms.
New Pennsylvania Project CEO Kadida Kenner’s keynote address on voting rights at the 34th Annual Dr. King Commemorative event Sunday in Media, PA.
It’s hard to overstate how important state courts are to maintaining rights and freedoms.
“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.
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.
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
“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.
“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.
