Opinion
Big Wins For the Environment and Pennsylvanians in 2023
These victories should compel us to rededicate ourselves to fighting for our environment – and our democracy – in 2024.
Molly Parzen
December 28, 2023
Opinion
Opinion
Bucks County Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick’s Worst Votes of 2023
It’s going to be really difficult for Fitzpatrick, who was endorsed twice by Trump, to run as a moderate in 2024 and actually have voters believe him.
Kierstyn Zolfo
December 27, 2023
Opinion
New Date, Same Traditions: Ukraine’s Wartime Christmas Celebrations
From Vertep performances to koliadky workshops, Christmas celebrations illustrate the resilience of the Ukrainian people.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
December 25, 2023
Opinion
Pennsylvanians Can’t Afford to Sit Out in 2024
Voters in the Commonwealth showed this year that they wouldn’t stand for big-money donors distorting our state courts. Well, it’s time to do the same for our federal courts.
Kadida Kenner
December 22, 2023
Opinion
Keeping Bucks County Green: Shutting Down Rockhill Quarry
The economic benefit of continued mining at the Rockhill Quarry is not worth the risk to the health of the residents, students, and any community that would receive the stone from the quarry, not to mention the damage to the local environment.
Steve Cickay
December 21, 2023
Opinion
Newly Surfaced Video of Moms for Liberty Advisor Reveals Religious Extremist Agenda
Moms for Liberty is a re-branded lobbying group with underreported ties to Christian nationalism.
Jennifer Cohn
December 20, 2023
Opinion
Turning the Page on Restrictive Book and Resource Policies in Central Bucks School District Will Take a Little Time
After voters gave the Central Bucks school board a mandate for change, the new Democratic majority is “not rushing things” in order to ensure community input.
Tabitha Dell'Angelo
December 19, 2023
Opinion
The Importance of Home
For generations, poor people have relied on each other to keep a roof over their heads. But in the world’s wealthiest country, we need more.
Kazmyn Ramos
December 18, 2023
Opinion
Book Review – Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
Liz Cheney’s book is a call to arms for every citizen to fight for this nation and democracy, and it is a warning to her Republican colleagues who are still defending the indefensible.
Steve Nolan
December 15, 2023
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.
