Melissa Ryan
Why Billions of Gallons of Raw Sewage Keep Ending up in Philadelphia Waterways
October 28, 2025
Human waste spilling from archaic sewer systems pollutes the city’s waterways and harms residents, according to the nonprofit environmental group PennEnvironment.
Doylestown’s Bike Works Continues Annual ‘Cranksgiving’ Ride to Benefit Local Food Pantries
October 27, 2025
The 28-mile ride on Sunday stops at three central Bucks County grocery stores where participants buy non-perishable grocery items to donate to local food pantries.
Forty Organizations Offer a Plan to Revitalize Rural America
October 27, 2025
When rural people have a seat at the policy-making table, we build an economy from the bottom up and middle out, not the top down, writes Rural Democracy Initiative’s Michael Chameides.
Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement’s Aspirational Fascism
October 24, 2025
The Trump regime’s tactics, strategies and policies endeavor to include, incorporate or advance a politics that is recognizably “fascist” by either a classical or contemporary definition, write Christopher Vials and Bill V. Mullen, co-editors of “The U.S. Anti-Fascism Reader.”
Poll Shows Bob Harvie in Dead Heat With Republican Brian Fitzpatrick in Next Year’s Congressional Race
October 20, 2025
According to the poll conducted between Oct. 10-11, “Trump fatigue” was setting in for PA-01 voters and “the unpopularity of Trump and the national GOP brand [was] splashing onto Fitzpatrick.”
