Opinion
This GOP Budget Bill Gun Law Change Threatens Lives
We need to be strengthening our gun safety laws, not weakening them.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
June 16, 2025
Opinion
Opinion
OPINION: No Kings, Indeed (on Donald Trump’s Birthday)
Trump’s $45 million military parade in Washington was a dud, and overshadowed by “No Kings Day” demonstrations attended by millions of Americans in more than 2,100 cities and towns across the country.
Steve Nolan
June 15, 2025
Opinion
Why Taxes Were Raised in Central Bucks School District — And Why It Matters for the Community
Past is prologue in Central Bucks, where prior school boards kept kicking the fiscal can down the road until the bill finally came due, writes CBSD Board Vice President Heather Reynolds.
Heather Reynolds
June 14, 2025
Opinion
OPINION: To Defeat Trump’s Fascism, We Must Confront Militarism
While most Americans instinctively understand the threat U.S. militarism poses to democracy, the times call for more explicit links between militarism and rising fascism and a blueprint for reversing this threat.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
June 12, 2025
Opinion
A Field Guide to ‘Accelerationism’: White Supremacist Groups Using Violence to Spur Race War and Create Social Chaos
Accelerationism is often connected to the white replacement theory, a white nationalist conspiracy theory that falsely asserts that there is a deliberate plot to diminish the influence and power of white people by replacing them with nonwhite populations.
Special to The Bucks County Beacon
June 11, 2025
Opinion
OPINION: Pennsylvania Is Closing Opportunity Gaps for Students, and We Can’t Stop Now
It is crucial that we remind legislators how important it is to continue the investments that our public schools need to support student learning and ensure our public school funding system passes constitutional muster in the years to come.
Aaron Chapin
June 5, 2025
Opinion
MAGA to Women: Stay Home And Have Babies!
They want families to conform to a Christian Nationalist family structure — specifically, a dominant man married to a subservient stay-at-home woman, having beaucoup children, writes Jim Hightower.
Jim Hightower
June 5, 2025
Opinion
OPINION: Listen to the Voices of the Homeless
People experiencing homelessness are experts on their own lived experiences. It’s critical they’re integrated into real decision-making processes.
Eric Protein Moseley
June 3, 2025
Opinion
Trump and the GOP’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Make the ‘Old-fashioned Term’ Groceries Actually Obsolete for Millions of People Who Rely on SNAP
If the Senate passes the House GOP budget one can only hope that an angry and hungry America remembers to exact their vengeance at the ballot box.
Pat LaMarche
May 30, 2025
Bucks County State Rep. Jim Prokopiak Leads Roundtable Discussion on Housing Affordability Solutions
September 11, 2025
“These communities in Bucks County were built for working-class people, and for decades it stayed that way. But since 2017, rent has gone up in our region by 50 percent,” said Prokopiak.
Department of Homeland Security Offers to Pay Deputy Salaries and Arrest Bonuses to Grow ICE 287(g) Deportation Machine
September 10, 2025
“Regardless of where the money comes from, this makes our communities more dangerous because it deteriorates the trust of police and crimes will go unreported,” said Project Libertad Executive Director Rachel Rutter.
Two Pennsylvania Towns Seek Public Funding for Water Systems Amid Claims That Fracking Contaminated Their Wells
September 9, 2025
The Greene County towns are believed to be the first in the state to use the emergency declaration in relation to drinking-water contamination.
Pastor Doug Wilson’s Extremist Christian Nationalist Teachings Go Mainstream in Trump’s Washington
September 8, 2025
At the National Conservatism Conference last week, Wilson was a featured speaker along with members of Congress and Trump’s Cabinet, including border czar Tom Homan, budget director Russell Vought and Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri.
York City Council Outlaws Machine Gun Converters to ‘Protect Every Member of Our Community’
September 3, 2025
“We have witnessed the devastating consequences of these types of devices, and the loss of life is nothing short of heartbreaking,” said York City Council President Edquina Washington.
