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).
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
“This bill would allow you to set aside any state law, you could pollute the air as much as you want, you could pollute the water as much as you want, you could do anything essentially that you wanted that would ordinarily violate the law,” said former Secretary for PA’s Department of Environmental Protection David Hess.
Look for ruby red strawberries and tomatoes, rich leafy greens, carefully crafted coffee, artisan breads, cupcakes, cookies, granola, field-grown flowers, local honey, and more at Bucks County’s farmers market offerings.
At town halls across Pennsylvania, rank-and-file Democrats and allied progressive groups are inviting Conor Lamb, a former U.S Congressman who voters rejected in May 2022 when he ran against Fetterman in the Senate primary. Now he is serving as a stand-in for the embattled Senator.
Senate Bill 780 will effectively ban people from sleeping outside, even if they have no other shelter available to them, and fines municipalities that don’t comply.
