Here are four stories to help readers better understand the arguments leading up to the decision and what was at stake with this case.
Steve Nolan, a 30-year military veteran and author of “American Carnage: An Officer’s Duty to Warn,” explains why so many journalists’ and pundits’ takes on last week’s debate miss the mark.
“We found that talking about the Supreme Court stakes in this election and the Court’s impact on issues Americans care about can move voters to vote for Biden and help win this election,” said Stand Up America Executive Director Christina Harvey.
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
The success of our students in school is inextricably linked to their ability to maintain housing.
In the two years since Roe fell, access to abortion has become ever more restricted. Despite legal losses, the fight for reproductive rights rages on.
More than 70% of young people said that states’ reproductive rights laws were affecting where they would choose to go to college.
It is essential that Governor’s Shapiro’s plan to increase transit funding by $282.8 million gets passed and fully funded in both the Pennsylvania House and Senate.
“We must ensure abortion is emphatically protected under Pennsylvania law, and not merely tolerated because of an oversight by anti-choice zealots of 40 years ago,” writes PA State Rep. Kristine Howard.
University of North Georgia’s Matthew Boedy spoke to the Bucks County Beacon about his new book, “The Seven Mountains Mandate,” and how Kirk was part of this movement seeking right-wing Christian dominion over government and society.
On this Democracy Day, I want us to remember: democracy isn’t just something we inherit, it’s something we build — one election, one conversation, one act of civic engagement at a time, writes Bob Harvie.
Because authoritarianism is most visible in hindsight, people often don’t recognize it until it’s too late.
When the truth is unthinkable, we lie to ourselves and one another, writes historian Dr. William Horne.
“These communities in Bucks County were built for working-class people, and for decades it stayed that way. But since 2017, rent has gone up in our region by 50 percent,” said Prokopiak.
