If the Supreme Court continues to overturn legal precedents on women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, and other issues, old state laws that haven’t been enforced, possibly for centuries, can suddenly spring back to life.
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
Too many communities are responding to rising homelessness by criminalizing the unhoused. It’s more humane and effective to house people.
Students want to learn and express themselves about what’s happening in the Middle East. We need to embrace that, not run away from it.
Extreme wealth inequality leads to extreme political inequality. Progressive taxation would be better for our economy and democracy alike.
Book reviews of “Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism” and “Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts: How To Save Democracy By Beating Republicans At Their Own Game.”
Rural white people, as a group, now pose four interconnected threats to the fate of the United States’ pluralist, constitutional democracy.
With little to no oversight and accountability, programs like the Educational Improvement Tax Credit are a pipeline sucking taxpayer money out of underfunded public schools and into the pockets of the wealthy.
Voting rights and our access to the ballot in Pennsylvania are under attack.
“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
“This bill would allow you to set aside any state law, you could pollute the air as much as you want, you could pollute the water as much as you want, you could do anything essentially that you wanted that would ordinarily violate the law,” said former Secretary for PA’s Department of Environmental Protection David Hess.
