Opinion
OPINION: GOP Incompetence or Complicity?
Any way you look at it, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick is part of the problem of the Republican Party’s growing, and unchecked, extremism.
Steve Cickay
February 22, 2024
Steve Cickay
Opinion
Democrats Are Trying to Make Democracy Work in Harrisburg
A Republican majority in the State Senate is acting as a wall for progress by blocking critical legislation passed in the Democratic-controlled House. Voters can tear down this wall in 2024.
Steve Cickay
January 30, 2024
Opinion
Keeping Bucks County Green: Shutting Down Rockhill Quarry
The economic benefit of continued mining at the Rockhill Quarry is not worth the risk to the health of the residents, students, and any community that would receive the stone from the quarry, not to mention the damage to the local environment.
Steve Cickay
December 21, 2023
Opinion
Advice to My Bucks County Republican Friends After Their Big November Election Loss
Choose freedom over fascism.
Steve Cickay
December 3, 2023
Opinion
Reflections on the Big, Beautiful Blue Wave in Bucks County and Across the Country
After sweeping Democratic victories, there’s hope in the air for 2024 that maybe we can finally turn the page on MAGA extremism both locally and nationally.
Steve Cickay
November 13, 2023
Opinion
Disinformation Is Creating a Post-Truth World Where Democracy Is in Peril
A review of Boston University Professor Lee McIntyre’s “On Disinformation: How To Fight For Truth And Protect Democracy.”
Steve Cickay
October 12, 2023
Opinion
The Value of a Good Public Education for All
Unfortunately, there is a national, well-funded right-wing movement underfoot that believes it can inflame people’s fears and prejudices to hijack and undermine public education in a desperate attempt to seize political power.
Steve Cickay
August 29, 2023
Opinion
SCOTUS’s Horrific Decisions Need to Inspire Progressive Action
Don’t mourn, organize! Our democracy depends on it.
Steve Cickay
August 1, 2023
Opinion
Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick Is Still Afraid to Speak Out Against Trump
The Bucks County Republican continues to be a profile in cowardice with his spineless response to the federal indictment against the former president for mishandling of classified documents, obstructing justice and making false statements.
Steve Cickay
June 19, 2023
Moms for Liberty CEO and Co-Founder Tina Descovich Verbally Attacks the Bucks County Beacon at Harrisburg-Area Event
October 8, 2025
Our crime? Journalism.
Using Black Hawk Helicopters and Chemical Agents, ICE Agents Turn Chicago Into a ‘War Zone’
October 7, 2025
Activists, residents and leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city.
Pennsylvania Budget Impasse Is Just Another Form of Abuse for Domestic Violence Victims
October 6, 2025
As PA Senate Republicans hold the budget hostage, domestic violence shelters are forced to furlough staff and turn away victims putting Pennsylvanians at risk of injury or death.
We Must Continue to Defend the Freedom to Read in Central Bucks School District
October 6, 2025
With elections next month, Central Bucks School Board’s Karen Smith reminds community members of the chaos and divisiveness Republican book banners inflicted on the district just a few years ago.
The Quiet Creep of Censorship: How ‘Everyday Banning’ Is Reshaping American Schools
October 5, 2025
PEN America’s new report “The Normalization of Book Banning” exposes how book censorship has become “rampant and common” in public schools across the United States.
