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
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.
