Opinion
Replacing Social Studies With STEM Is a Terrible Idea
Humanities in public schools help students understand, and engage with, the world.
Rann Miller
January 10, 2024
Opinion
Opinion
Bucks County Democrats Won Big in 2023. Here’s How We Ensure a Repeat in 2024
It starts with recognizing that what you do every day in the lead-up to an election is just as important as voting.
Connor OHanlon
January 4, 2024
Opinion
Zapatistas at 30: Building and Inspiring Autonomy
Since announcing themselves to the world the day NAFTA took effect on Jan. 1, 1994, the EZLN has for decades informed struggles down and up the continent. Amid climate chaos and endless war, they continue to imagine and create better worlds.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
January 1, 2024
Opinion
As We Look to 2024, Here’s What Hope Looks Like
When it felt like the world was falling apart, these movements brought people together to make what seemed impossible, possible.
Shailly Gupta Barnes
December 29, 2023
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
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
Pennsylvania Can’t Reject Improperly Dated Ballots, Federal Court Rules
April 1, 2025
The judge ruled that rejecting mail ballots for issues with the date on the outer envelope violates voters’ First Amendment rights, since voting is considered an expression of free speech.
Pennsylvania Immigrant Rights Advocates Urge Passage of the American Dream and Promise Act
March 31, 2025
“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.
Danny Ceisler Launches Campaign for Bucks County Sheriff with Strong Backing from Democratic Leaders
March 30, 2025
“Danny is a battle-tested patriot who represents the best of his generation. Bucks County will be safer with him as our Sheriff,” said former Bucks County Congressman Patrick Murphy.
Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick’s Phony Telephone Town Halls Are Like Crank Calls to Democracy
March 30, 2025
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.
Food Insecurity in Bucks County Worsened by Trump and DOGE Cuts
March 28, 2025
Locally, the cuts have already hacked away about one-third of the $800,000 the federal government had been sending to supplement Bucks County Opportunity Council programs like Fresh Connect.
