Events
This Weekend: Spooky Train Ride, Parent’s Night Out, Historic Bristol, Yardley Beer & Wine, and a Scarecrow Shuffle
Looking for something to do this weekend? We’ve got you covered.
Emily Smith
October 14, 2022
Culture
Events
This Weekend: Welcome to Fall
Looking for something to do this weekend? We’ve got you covered.
Emily Smith
October 7, 2022
Events
This Weekend: Hurricane Ian, Tito Puente Jr., Oktoberfest, Movies and Tacos
As Hurricane Ian finds its way up to Bucks County, we are in for a rainy weekend. Hopefully the rain doesn’t dampen all
Emily Smith
September 30, 2022
Culture
Work as the Way out of Poverty: A Myth
Twenty-one years after its publication, we as a society still haven’t learned the lessons from Barbara Ehrenreich’s book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.
Emily French
September 29, 2022
Culture
This Weekend: Outlaw Fest, Book Fest, September Fest
Looking for something to do this weekend? We’ve got you covered.
Emily Smith
September 23, 2022
Education
Food for Thought Is on the Menu for Banned Books Week in Bucks County
From book clubs to parades, there’s something for everyone who is concerned with literary censorship in public schools.
Jenny Stephens
September 19, 2022
Culture
Give Love to Students: Keep ‘The Hate U Give’ in School Libraries
According to the American Library Association, Angie Thomas’s book was the fifth most challenged in 2021. It should be read by students (and their parents), not banned from schools.
Emily French
September 18, 2022
Culture
This Weekend: Wine, Music, Polo and Campfires. Fall is here.
Looking for something to do this weekend? We’ve got you covered.
Emily Smith
September 16, 2022
Culture
Barbara Ehrenreich helped make inequality visible – her legacy lives on in a reinvigorated labor movement
Ehrenreich is best known for her 2001 book “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,” an unforgettable best-selling expose that highlights what many low-wage workers already know: It’s impossible to get ahead when you can’t even break even.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
September 12, 2022
Despite Trump’s Federal Funding Cuts to NPR and PBS, WHYY Is on Solid Financial Footing – for Now
May 9, 2025
“But without federal funding, the road ahead becomes more challenging — not just in sustaining what we do now, but in continuing to grow and innovate,” said Bill Marrazzo, President & CEO for WHYY.
Exclusive: Agency Responsible for Report on Student Abuse Allegations at Jamison Elementary School at Risk from Trump Administration’s Proposed Federal Funding Cuts
May 8, 2025
Proposed funding cuts in the draft budget “would impact our ability to do similar investigations and ensure student safety in the future,” said Jennifer Garman, CEO of Philadelphia-based Disability Rights Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senator John Fetterman Raises Alarms with Outburst at Meeting with Union Officials
May 7, 2025
Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk, according to one person who was briefed on what occurred.
Bucks County Commissioners Meeting Packed with Residents Fired Up Over Sheriff’s ICE Agreement
May 7, 2025
Critics of the potential local 287(g) partnership raised concerns over racial profiling, wrongful arrests, lack of due process, and community safety. However, supporters also turned out raising the issues of human trafficking, crime, and alleged treason.
Hearings in Harrisburg Show Pennsylvania Lawmakers Are Unable to Find Consensus Around Much-needed Cyber Charter School Reform
May 7, 2025
At the first two hearings, some folks brought receipts, and some brought excuses, while the cyber charters themselves declined to appear at all.
