Montour County Residents Prove Community Organizing Can Defeat Data Centers and Halt Corporate Land and Power Grabs
March 4, 2026
Now they are urging other communities across the state, like Bucks County, to join the fight.
Elections
“The Constitution does not grant the President any specific powers over elections,” wrote Judge Denise J. Casper of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts.
“I’m honored to have his support as we fight to flip this seat, restore the American Dream, and ensure working families can thrive,” said Bucks County Commissioner Harvie.
Twenty years into the program, millions of Americans still don’t have the right ID to board a plane. If similar dysfunction plays out in our elections, the stakes are much higher than a missed flight.
Just 17 percent of registered voters in Philadelphia showed up to the polls, while Bucks County fared slightly better with 25.8 percent.
A mere 25.8% of registered voters in the county voted yesterday.
To some extent, President Donald Trump looms over the races, as progressive incumbents — Philly DA Larry Krasner and Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey — have vowed to resist his conservative agenda.
Judicial candidates Linda Bobrin, Dawn DiDonato Burke, Amy Fitzpatrick, and Tiffany Thomas-Smith bring decades of combined experience across family law, land use, housing, public service, criminal prosecution, and courtroom advocacy.
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.
Democrats in Harrisburg recently introduced a landmark voting rights bill, the Voting Rights Protection Act, which is designed to encourage public participation in our elections by reducing barriers that keep people from casting their ballots.
The topics covered at a recent candidate forum at Perry Traditional Academy included an array of issues important to the teens: policing, school funding and youth involvement in their administrations.
Gallego travels to Pennsylvania’s First Congressional District and will be joined by Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, who is running against Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, “to engage the constituents Fitzpatrick is ignoring as he backs his party’s reckless budget resolution.”
There’s new consensus on voter ID in Pennsylvania. That doesn’t mean an election deal is coming.
It is the latest example of the DOJ dropping or withdrawing from a voting rights case begun under former President Joe Biden.
This bill will disenfranchise millions of voters, especially rural voters, voters of color, and married women who have chosen to change their last names, as numerous nonpartisan organizations have pointed out. But for Fitzpatrick it just didn’t matter.
The first round of lawsuits all cite the plain text of Article 1, which gives the president no power to regulate elections.
Thanks to Trump and His Republican Enablers in Congress, the Affordability Crisis in Pennsylvania Worsens
March 4, 2026
Electricity, gas, health care, housing and grocery prices continue to increase. Working families in the commonwealth can’t afford another two years of a GOP-controlled Congress.
A New Report’s ‘Strategic Staffing’ Proposals to Fix Pennsylvania’s Teacher Shortage Don’t Make the Grade
March 3, 2026
The report’s heart is in the right place, but its ideas are not new and are unlikely to catch hold without someone, somewhere putting more thought into how, exactly, these ideas could be implemented, writes Peter Greene.
Hundreds Show Up in Doylestown for the ‘Coldest Night of the Year’ in Solidarity with Bucks County’s Unhoused and Hungry
March 2, 2026
This year’s fundraising walk netted nearly $40,000 for local organization’s serving people experiencing homelessness, food insecurity, and economic hardship.
OPINION: The Secret Plot to Take the Election Out of Voters’ Hands
February 27, 2026
MAGA-aligned activists are now openly discussing manufacturing or exaggerating a national emergency to justify Trump’s agents in the federal government to interfere in this November’s elections, The Washington Post reported.
