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GOP Lawmakers Push to Charge Women with Homicide for Seeking Abortions
‘Fetal personhood’ bills would grant fetuses, embryos the same rights as newborns.
Anna Claire Vollers, Stateline
March 9, 2025
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Bucks County Republican Jim Greenwood Joins Former Members of Congress Calling on Lawmakers to Rein in Trump and Musk’s Abuse of Power
The open letter organized by Issue One warns that “America is suddenly at a perilous crossroad” and urges Congress to start acting like a check and balance to the executive branch as the Constitution mandates.
Melinda Rizzo
March 7, 2025
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Nearly 1 in 3 Families with Children in Bucks County Are Struggling Economically, Says New Report
This is why State Rep. Jim Prokopiak keeps his focus in Harrisburg squarely on “increased education funding, and [the need to] make sure that we have access to affordable healthcare and good paying jobs.”
Pat LaMarche
March 7, 2025
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Pennsylvania’s Century-old Election Code Needs Fixes, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt Says
The state’s top election official calls on the Legislature to update rules, and to give local administrators a voice.
Carter Walker, Votebeat Pennsylvania
March 7, 2025
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Bucks County Commissioners Unanimously Proclaim March ALICE Awareness Month As Too Many Locally Live Paycheck to Paycheck
ALICE households, Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed, live in a financial Catch-22.
Melinda Rizzo
March 5, 2025
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Delaware River Basin Commission Warns Rising Sea Levels May Threaten Drinking Water for Philadelphia Region, Southern New Jersey
The DRBC says the current plan to boost downstream flows may not be enough to repel a “salt front” in the tidal Delaware River.
Jon Hurdle, Inside Climate News
March 4, 2025
Podcast
Interview: Kadida Kenner on Defending Democracy and Voting Rights in Pennsylvania
Editor Cyril Mychalejko’s conversation with the head of the New Pennsylvania Project also touches on Civil Rights history, the importance of this year’s statewide judicial elections, and anti-democratic legislation like the SAVE Act.
Cyril Mychalejko
March 3, 2025
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Eyeing a Friendly Supreme Court, Republicans Push for the Ten Commandments in Schools
It’s just one of the ways lawmakers are trying to insert Judeo-Christian doctrine into public education.
Matt Vasilogambros, Stateline
March 2, 2025
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Philadelphia Continues Long History of Black-led Protest Meetings Aimed at Fighting Racial Inequity and Prejudice
W.E.B. Du Bois’ observation that race prejudice “is a far more powerful social force than most Philadelphians realize” is still true today.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
March 1, 2025
Join Doylestown Friends on Saturday to Commemorate the US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Caroline Craig
August 7, 2025
The vigil will be from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. rain or shine at the corners of State and Main Streets.
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