Opinion
The Way We Treat Our Unhoused Neighbors Is Criminal
The death of a homeless Bucks County woman last week reminds us that we are failing the least fortunate among us.
Pat LaMarche
February 2, 2024
Opinion
Opinion
OPINION: Rolling Stone Goes Cherry-Picking with Critique of Pentagon Report
Bucks County Veteran Steve Nolan believes the DOD was right to examine extremism within the military’s ranks, but that the media outlet’s coverage of it was misleading.
Steve Nolan
February 2, 2024
Opinion
For 150 Years, Black Journalists Have Known What Confederate Monuments Really Stood For
Confederate monuments were part of a relentless propaganda campaign to restore the South’s reputation and are symbols of the violent backlash against Black citizenship by white Southerners.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
February 1, 2024
Opinion
OPINION: Pennsylvanians Need Another Cyber Charter School Like A Hole In The Head
Yet the Shapiro administration approves one anyway.
Peter Greene
January 31, 2024
Opinion
Democrats Are Trying to Make Democracy Work in Harrisburg
A Republican majority in the State Senate is acting as a wall for progress by blocking critical legislation passed in the Democratic-controlled House. Voters can tear down this wall in 2024.
Steve Cickay
January 30, 2024
Opinion
Why It’s Important for Central Bucks School District to Create Learning Environments Where Students Feel Seen, Heard, and Valued
The key to achieving a school where everyone experiences dignity is a willingness to engage in deep critical self-reflection.
Tabitha Dell'Angelo
January 29, 2024
Opinion
A Tale of Two Pastors, and Two Versions of Christianity
Will Americans of faith choose progressive values of compassion over the gospel of prosperity and power?
Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute
January 29, 2024
Opinion
An Open Letter to Governor Josh Shapiro: Fully and Fairly Fund Our Public Schools
Over 350 parents, educators, taxpayers, and school board members from more than 40 districts across the state also remind the governor that privatization schemes like vouchers are part of the problem, not the solution.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
January 28, 2024
Opinion
President Biden’s New Transit Rule Is Good News for People and the Planet
The administration rolled out a new rule to make sure federal transit dollars are invested in sustainable projects that create local jobs and allow communities to be part of the solution.
LeeAnn Hall
January 23, 2024
Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are the Greatest Threat to Social Security in Its 90-Year History
March 6, 2025
Pennsylvania has one of the highest percentages of residents over 65 in the country. Now the entire social security system and the benefits and services they depend on are at risk.
Bucks County Commissioners Unanimously Proclaim March ALICE Awareness Month As Too Many Locally Live Paycheck to Paycheck
March 5, 2025
ALICE households, Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed, live in a financial Catch-22.
Interview: Kadida Kenner on Defending Democracy and Voting Rights in Pennsylvania
March 3, 2025
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.
Eyeing a Friendly Supreme Court, Republicans Push for the Ten Commandments in Schools
March 2, 2025
It’s just one of the ways lawmakers are trying to insert Judeo-Christian doctrine into public education.
The Sanctuary Movement and Immigrant Solidarity from Reagan to Trump
February 28, 2025
Under attack by Trump, the Sanctuary Movement is rising up with other human rights activists against the greatest threat to immigrants since Reagan’s dirty wars created the first flood of people fleeing for their lives out of Central America.
