The concert starts 6 p.m. Saturday at The Tavern at New Hope Winery and will showcase bands that include Central Bucks School District educators, students, and alumni.
“People will die,” warns Melissa Rinker, who has over 20 chronic illnesses and relies 100 percent on Medicaid for medication and monthly doctor’s visits.
A report released last month looks to end the “cycle of recidivism” in Berks County.
CeaseFirePA estimates that a $100 million investment toward violence prevention will save the commonwealth up to $500 million a year by decreasing health care, criminal justice system, and economic costs.
Staffing shortages, a lack of services for low-income households, and the future economic cost of underinvestment in child care are concerns that need to be addressed.
The event was part of Khanna’s “Benefits Over Billionaires” tour making stops in Republican-held swing districts in lieu of their own representatives holding town halls, like Pennsylvania first Congressional district’s Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick.
The GOP budget bill could cause 8.6 million Americans to be uninsured by the end of the decade.
Spectators packed onto balconies, drag queens rode in convertibles waving to attendees, and rainbows in every form colored the landscape for New Hope’s Pride Parade.
“It’s easy to mock this legislation because it’s so inane and embarrassing — and we have,” said Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA).
Environmentalists say that allowing the industry to drill in Pennsylvania’s part of the watershed would risk contaminating drinking water for some 15 million people with toxic chemicals.
“I want the results of the water tests to be made public. I want an investigation about how the material got into the field, and I want it remediated,” said Trumbauersville resident Wes Comes.
If the two-year limit is enacted, evictions are expected to skyrocket, resulting in an increase in homelessness.
Local MAGA millionaire Jim Worthington put it best when he told NOTUS last week, “Ninety percent of the time, he votes with the president. He didn’t this one time, but it didn’t affect the outcome.”
“It is deeply unethical for a sitting school board member to be hired by members of her own board to a position at the local tech school,” said Pennridge School District parent Laura Foster.
