Opinion
Corporate Profiteering Destroyed the Baltimore Bridge
The price of corporate compromising on safety is usually paid with taxpayer dollars and immigrant worker lives.
Sonali Kolhatkar
March 29, 2024
Opinion
Opinion
Time to Move on Bold, New Clean Energy Plan for Pennsylvania
The commonwealth, with its highly skilled union workforce and infrastructure, should be at the forefront of the clean energy transition.
Molly Parzen
March 27, 2024
Opinion
Biden Cannot Easily Make Roe v. Wade Federal Law, But He Could Still Make it Easier to Get an Abortion
Most Americans think of the federal government and the president as capable of doing anything that a majority of Congress thinks is appropriate. But that is not true.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
March 26, 2024
Opinion
Senator Bob Casey: An American Everyman
He actually champions the needs of ordinary American people: women’s reproductive freedom, the strength of our democracy, the prosperity of workers, lowering the cost of consumer goods, and preventing child poverty.
Steve Cickay
March 26, 2024
Opinion
The Hypocrisy of Republicans’ Anti-Crime Rhetoric
The Republican playbook rolls back existing firearm regulations and blocks new gun control laws. This will only worsen gun violence.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
March 24, 2024
Opinion
Cash Bail Is Unfair and Violates Due Process
Reversing progress on bail reform is a new flashpoint in the GOP’s culture wars.
Sonali Kolhatkar
March 18, 2024
Opinion
Letters: GOP Response to the State of the Union, the Pennsylvania Seven Responsible for Trump
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
March 15, 2024
Opinion
Who’s to Blame for Nex Benedict’s Death?
Anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans contributed to the hate that led to the death of a non-binary teenager in Oklahoma.
John Thompson
March 13, 2024
Opinion
Exploring the Connection Between Fertility Treatment and Reproductive Freedom
Being pro-choice means empowering individuals to determine their reproductive futures, including maintaining access to services such as IVF here in Pennsylvania.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
March 13, 2024
The GOP’s Budget Bill and Its Federal Funding Cuts Will Harm Bucks County Students
July 3, 2025
“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.
State Senator Steve Santarsiero: It’s Possible to Be an Advocate for the Homeless and Believe Encampments Are Not a Good Idea
July 2, 2025
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.
Supreme Court Provides Cover for Bigotry Draped in the Fig Leaf of Religion With LGBTQ School Books Decision
July 1, 2025
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
Head Start in Bucks County Saved, Federal Funding Extended for Next 5 Years
June 30, 2025
“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.
Regulatory Sandbox Proposed by Republican Pennsylvania Lawmaker Would Allow Businesses to Sidestep State Environmental Regulations
June 30, 2025
“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.
