We must not let the hateful language of immigration continue to corrupt our thoughts, bury the facts, incite violence, and desensitize us into believing that immigrants are less deserving of empathy, basic human rights, and mercy, writes Bucks County’s Laura Rose.
Homan has spent the past several years promoting racist conspiracy theories and associating with white nationalists. His mass deportation agenda, now targeting churches and schools, is one of the Administration’s top priorities.
All told, over 2,000 federal programs were put at risk, which would have impacted health care, education, housing, food assistance, domestic abuse shelters, suicide prevention services, disaster relief, small business funding, child care, and more.
My faith and my engagement with the broader community are not at odds; they complement and enrich each other.
Our elected leaders in Harrisburg must ensure Pennsylvania’s economy remains on the path to a clean energy transition that creates new good-paying jobs and pumps billions of dollars of investment into communities across our commonwealth.
If Trump gets rid of FEMA, he’ll be turning back the clock 50 years. It is illogical to call for a return to a time with a weak and disorganized system of disaster management.
Let me be clear, structural racism and systemic poverty are real, and they are sins that separate us from compassionate community where all are welcome as neighbors and siblings in Christ, writes Rev. Kristopher D. Schondelmeyer.
“This type of disruption and chaos has no place in our schools,” said Heidi Roux, executive director of Bucks County’s Immigrant Rights Action.
The Republican Congressman owes his constituents an explanation about where he stands on this divisive issue. And why aren’t local newspapers chasing this story?
“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
“This bill would allow you to set aside any state law, you could pollute the air as much as you want, you could pollute the water as much as you want, you could do anything essentially that you wanted that would ordinarily violate the law,” said former Secretary for PA’s Department of Environmental Protection David Hess.
