News
Why Election Policy Is Still One of Harrisburg’s Thorniest Issues
There’s new consensus on voter ID in Pennsylvania. That doesn’t mean an election deal is coming.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
May 5, 2025
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
Opinion
What Interviews with Ordinary Germans Living Under the Nazis Can Teach Us About US Politics Under Donald Trump
Descriptions of personal responses to the rise of fascism in 1930s Germany echo what I heard in my research talking to voters across the United States leading up to Trump’s re-election, writes Melissa Butcher.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
May 4, 2025
News
In His First 100 Days, Trump Launched an ‘All-Out Assault’ on the Environment
Compared to his first term, the threat posed by Trump’s second administration is on a “new level,” environmental groups and legal experts say.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
April 30, 2025
Opinion
80 Years After Benito Mussolini’s Death, Here’s What Democracies Today Can Learn from His Fascist Rise
Time and again, the opposition in Mussolini’s Italy failed to concertedly oppose the fascists’ attacks on democratic norms and institutions. Then it was too late.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
April 27, 2025
News
FBI Arrests Milwaukee County Judge Accused of Obstructing ICE Arrest of Undocumented Immigrant
“This Administration’s willingness to weaponize federal law enforcement is shocking and this arrest has all the hallmarks of overreach,” said U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee).
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
April 25, 2025
Opinion
Here’s What Trump Hopes to Achieve by Targeting Universities
Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber has called Trump’s latest moves “the greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s”.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
April 24, 2025
News
Pennsylvania May Be Short 20,000 Nurses by 2026
The state’s nursing shortage is the result of long-standing issues in education, workforce retention and burnout, and health care delivery.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
April 14, 2025
News
Trump Cuts and Runs from Global Tariff War He Started Because Economic Damage to the United States Would Have Been Huge
The U.S. would have faced steep and immediate losses in employment, investment, growth, and most importantly, real consumption, the best measure of household living standards.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
April 12, 2025
News
Pennsylvania Says Schools Already Comply with Civil Rights Laws and Are Not Ordered to Scrap DEI
“Regardless of changes taking place at the federal level, the Shapiro Administration will continue to do everything in our power to support Pennsylvania learners, educators, and schools,” said Pennsylvania Department of Education spokesperson Erin James.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
April 10, 2025
Senator Ruben Gallego to Host Town Hall in Bucks County as Part of DNC’s ‘Fight to Save Medicaid’ Month of Action
May 5, 2025
Gallego travels to Pennsylvania’s First Congressional District and will be joined by Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, who is running against Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, “to engage the constituents Fitzpatrick is ignoring as he backs his party’s reckless budget resolution.”
Breaking News: Head Start Survives Trump Administration Budget Proposal
May 2, 2025
Still, teachers, families and advocates remain concerned about the stability of Head Start. The Trump administration is closing several regional offices and laying off the staff who support the program, which has led to funding delays that threatened to close individual preschools.
Pennsylvania’s Inadequate Public Education Funding Takes Center Stage at Community Forum in Lower Bucks County
May 2, 2025
“If you read the news a lot last year, you might have seen that we made history with the largest state [funding] increase ever. However, it only filled 11 percent of the total gap in funding that our schools need,” said Children First’s Priyanka Reyes-Kaura.
Bucks County Opportunity Council Celebrates 18 Families Who with Public Assistance and Hard Work Won Their Wars on Poverty
April 30, 2025
BCOC’s Economic Self-sufficiency Program has now reached 420 families becoming financially independent since its inception.
OPINION: Abram Lucabaugh Was a Divisive Central Bucks Superintendent Praised by Moms for Liberty. He’s the Last Person Who Should Run Centennial School District
April 29, 2025
I was shocked that anyone would consider him a good choice, writes Centennial parent Nancy Pontius.
