The Keystone State faces distinct challenges related to its electric grid that drive both the growing demand for electricity and the limited supply.
The elevation of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost to the papacy on May 8 may signal the dawning of the era of “the labor pope.”
The measure includes in-person early voting and procedural updates for mail ballots that election officials have wanted for years. However, the exclusion of voter ID requirement makes its prospects in the GOP-controlled state Senate at best uncertain.
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
There’s new consensus on voter ID in Pennsylvania. That doesn’t mean an election deal is coming.
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.
Compared to his first term, the threat posed by Trump’s second administration is on a “new level,” environmental groups and legal experts say.
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.
“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).
“It is infuriating that Republicans in Congress are willing to make our children go hungry so they can give tax breaks to the already rich,” Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig told States Newsroom.
“I am not buying his ‘I have changed, I blame the school board’ message,” said Warminster’s Nancy Pontius.
Funding is running out for a federal rental assistance program, putting families across the commonwealth at risk of eviction.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates this budget will cut $698 billion in Medicaid spending, causing approximately 8.6 million people to lose their health care coverage. It will also result in 3 million less people a month receiving SNAP food stamps benefits.
“I commend the commissioners for standing up for the rule of law, and calling [Sheriff] Fred Harran out on his half-baked scheme to use county resources to do ICE’s deportation work,” said Democratic Sheriff candidate Danny Ceisler.
