The greater use of stop-and-frisk could lead to a myriad of unwanted consequences, such as lawsuits against the city, greater racial disparities in the criminal justice system, citizen unrest, and distrust of the police.
Bucks County’s Joe Sundeen reviews Liz Cheney’s “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning.”
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
Any way you look at it, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick is part of the problem of the Republican Party’s growing, and unchecked, extremism.
When politicians remove historical and cultural context from education, we need to help students build resilience.
For Black people, the modern-day meaning of the word has little to do with school curriculum or political jargon and goes back to the days of Jim Crow and legal, often violent, racial segregation.
Two Central Bucks Republican school board members – Lisa Sciscio and Debra Cannon – publicly, though unofficially quit. Their hypocrisy and bad example for students is just sad and unfortunate.
Politicians pay next to no attention to the concerns of 85 million low-income Americans. Advocates want to change that — and maybe the next election, too.
While we desperately need more affordable housing, we will not be able to build our way out of the population-level crisis that youth homelessness has become.
“The reason I win tough races is simple – I listen to people and I fight for them,” Harvie said.
A new report assesses the governor’s first two years, concluding that a few positive steps are outweighed by larger inaction.
In her new role as a party leader, Jane Kleeb is organizing Democrats to go on the offensive.
“It is inconceivable that after decades of promises and political posturing, Congress has yet to pass a permanent solution for undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children and other undocumented people,” said Make the Road PA’s Armando Jiménez.
We need a representative in Congress who engages not in sophistry, but in truth-telling, and one who has the courage to have in-person town halls open to all their constituents, writes Newtown’s Steve Cickay.
