Opinion
OPINION: ICE Agents Patrolling Bucks County? Not on Our Watch
It’s time to tell Sheriff Harran that we will not let Bucks County become a playground for ICE.
Laura Rose
April 27, 2025
Opinion
Opinion
Congress Must Protect Federal Programs That Help Lower Energy Costs from Trump Cuts
In 2023 alone, more than 158,000 Pennsylvania families benefited from these programs, saving more than $267 million on clean energy investments that provide long-term savings.
Molly Parzen
April 25, 2025
Opinion
OPINION: Don’t Let Elon Musk Privatize the Postal Service
Wells Fargo recently published a step-by-step guide to postal privatization. To attract private buyers, the bank’s investment analysts recommend raising USPS package rates by as much as 140 percent.
Sarah Anderson
April 25, 2025
Opinion
Here’s What Trump Hopes to Achieve by Targeting Universities
Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber has called Trump’s latest moves “the greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s”.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
April 24, 2025
Opinion
Representative Bresnahan, Protect SNAP for the Future of Our Community
SNAP is a lifeline for 40 million Americans. Cutting it as part of the GOP budget would devastate families in our communities.
John Kelly
April 23, 2025
Opinion
Tackling Climate Change Must Be Job Number One
This Earth Day, and every day after, you must exercise your power. The wellbeing of our planet and its people is at stake.
Susan Bass
April 22, 2025
Opinion
OPINION: How Pennsylvania’s ‘Uniformity Clause’ and ‘Hold Harmless’ Policy Harm State Education Funding
And here’s how you can be part of the solution.
Coleman Poses
April 21, 2025
Opinion
Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, Please Don’t Take Away Food from Our Kids
Republicans in Congress plan to vote for a budget that will cut SNAP benefits and get rid of free and reduced lunches for kids just so the wealthiest Americans can receive massive tax breaks.
Michelle Ritter-Santana
April 18, 2025
Opinion
OPINION: ‘Bro Culture’ on Top at the Pentagon
This ascendancy of “bro culture” starts with the purge of our most qualified American women and minority men in uniform, writes Bucks County military veteran Steve Nolan.
Steve Nolan
April 17, 2025
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.
