Opinion
Letters: GOP Response to the State of the Union, the Pennsylvania Seven Responsible for Trump
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
March 15, 2024
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
Opinion
Exploring the Connection Between Fertility Treatment and Reproductive Freedom
Being pro-choice means empowering individuals to determine their reproductive futures, including maintaining access to services such as IVF here in Pennsylvania.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
March 13, 2024
Opinion
Just Say No to Governor Shapiro’s Performance-based Budgeting for Public Higher Education
This proposal is akin to putting PASSHE institutions into a pressure cooker and threatening them to grow or die, write concerned West Chester University faculty members.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
March 11, 2024
Opinion
Same Job? Same Pay. It’s That Simple.
March 12 is Women’s Equal Pay Day – and it’s how far into 2024 a woman has to work to earn the same money a man did by the end of 2023 when they both started counting on New Year’s Day 2023.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
March 11, 2024
News
U.S. Christian Right Has Taken Aim at LGBTIQ+ Rights, Sex Education, and Abortion in Africa
A Q&A with Haley McEwen about her new book “The US Christian Right and Pro-Family Politics in 21st Century Africa.”
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
March 10, 2024
Opinion
How Teens Benefit from Being Able to Read ‘Disturbing’ Books That Some Want to Ban
Students who read and talk to each other about stories with social themes report greater motivation to read, greater use of reading strategies, and insight into human nature than those who do not.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
March 5, 2024
News
New Jersey Residents More Worried by Book Bans Than Controversial School Lessons, Poll Says
“Sometimes, the loudest voices we hear and the strongest voices we hear don’t necessarily reflect the majority,” said Ashley Koning, the poll’s director.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
February 27, 2024
Opinion
Philadelphia Mayor Might Consider These Lessons from New York City Before Expanding Stop-and-Frisk
The greater use of stop-and-frisk could lead to a myriad of unwanted consequences, such as lawsuits against the city, greater racial disparities in the criminal justice system, citizen unrest, and distrust of the police.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
February 25, 2024
Opinion
Letters: America First Redux, Yet Another Reason Not to Vote for Trump, and Do-Nothing Republicans
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
February 22, 2024
A Bayard Rustin Archive Aims to Preserve His Legacy as a Queer Civil Rights Activist
July 9, 2025
Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates the West Chester-born civil rights activist, a mentor to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and key architect of the March on Washington.
Democratic Congressional Candidate Bob Harvie Visits Bucks County Manufacturing Business Suffering Under Trump’s Tariff Wars
July 7, 2025
The uncertainty around the Trump administration’s tariff strategy “is creating havoc” for Warminster-based Gamry Instruments.
The GOP’s Budget Bill and Its Federal Funding Cuts Will Harm Bucks County Students
July 3, 2025
“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.
State Senator Steve Santarsiero: It’s Possible to Be an Advocate for the Homeless and Believe Encampments Are Not a Good Idea
July 2, 2025
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.
Supreme Court Provides Cover for Bigotry Draped in the Fig Leaf of Religion With LGBTQ School Books Decision
July 1, 2025
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
