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Democratic Pennsylvania House Speaker Mark Rozzi Asked to Resign After Just Six Days
After nominating Rozzi, GOP Representative Jim Gregory claims the “bonds of trust” have been broken.
Jenny Stephens
January 9, 2023
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Shell’s New Pennsylvania Plant Will Produce Single-Use Plastics for 30 Years
One environmental critic is “appalled” that “the Beaver County plant is gonna ‘run and run’ with zero corporate accountability for the global scourge of waste the plant’s output will create.”
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
January 9, 2023
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Bucks County’s Peace Center to Host 11th Annual Martin Luther King Peace & Social Justice Summit
“The Summit is geared to help students learn a little history of the growth of American democracy and justice as an ongoing process,” said The Peace Center’s Executive Director Danny L. Thomas.
Jenny Stephens
January 9, 2023
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Lycoming County Set to Begin State’s Largest Hand Recount of the 2020 Election. Here’s What to Expect
The recount comes after months of petitions and pressure on county commissioners
Carter Walker, Votebeat Pennsylvania
January 8, 2023
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Three Bucks County Republicans Join Democrats to Elect House Speaker in Harrisburg
For freshman Republican lawmakers Hogan and Marcell, who joined Tomlinson, their very first vote in office was a display of bipartisanship to elect Democrat Mark Rozzi.
Cyril Mychalejko
January 5, 2023
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Candlelight Vigil in Doylestown to Mark Second Anniversary of January 6 Insurrection
Local citizens and officials to commemorate democracy’s triumph over the 2021 attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
Jenny Stephens
January 4, 2023
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School Vouchers Have Been a Disaster—Now Advocates Are Trying to Rename Them
What you need to know about education savings accounts, a kind of “super-voucher.”
Peter Greene
January 3, 2023
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Just Over 1 in 4 Members of Congress in 2023 Will Be women
At this rate, it will take 118 years until there is gender parity. However, Democrats compose 72% of the women in this Congress.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
January 3, 2023
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Delaware River Basin Commission’s New Fracking Regulations Fall Short, Put Watershed in ‘Grave Jeopardy’
The Delaware River Frack Ban Coalition vows to continue to push for a complete fracking ban.
Jenny Stephens
January 2, 2023
‘Ban This! How One School Fought Two Book Bans and Won’ Authors Set to Speak in Newtown and Doylestown
Melinda Rizzo
October 11, 2025
“We are all looking for some kind of hope; for someone who has been successful in taking on the far right,” said Barbara Simmons, executive director of The Peace Center in Langhorne.
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