After he was ordered to take a Kurt Vonnegut classic off the shelves, this teacher raised over $25,000 to put “Slaughterhouse-Five” and other challenged books into the hands of students.
We celebrate existing through another year, we rally together to demand acceptance and change, and we unify as fellow humans who deserve to be loved no matter your personal labels or nationality.
“Pride Month has always been about struggle and resistance, in addition to celebration and parades … we must continue to fight for the rights of all LGBTQ+ folks,” says Marlene Pray.
The loudest “defenders” of the Second Amendment and guns on demand don’t even understand the full context of the amendment.
I am appalled at the fact that so soon after Uvalde, while the tiny caskets are still being decorated, that the NRA would have a fundraiser, and so close to an elementary school no less.
Bucks County Beacon columnist Kierstyn Zolfo and Raging Chicken Press Editor Kevin Mahoney dig into Fitzpatrick’s “anti-abortion record, his election integrity gaslighting, his use of alternative facts,” and more!
Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.
While Bucks County’s two daily newspapers are shrinking their opinion section, the Bucks County Beacon is expanding ours.
Bucks County military veteran Steve Nolan worries about the dangerous effects Trump and Trumpism has had on soldiers, sailors, airmen/airwomen, and marines.
The Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat also demanded the prosecution of “gun dealers whose weapons routinely wind up at crime scenes.”
“We have to stand together, rise up, and do whatever we can do and have to do to protect our river, to protect our environment and to protect the future,” said Delaware Riverkeeper Maya K. van Rossum.
Bucks County Beacon contributors Barbara Simmons and Steve Nolan tackle this question for what for many will be a somber Independence Day.
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If Thomas gets his way, we could see more SLAPP suits from public figures like Jim Worthington and a muzzling of the Fourth Estate.
