Pennsylvania high schools play an important role in registering first-time voters, but could be doing more by actively supporting in-school voter registration drives.
Amid ongoing attacks on democracy and the state’s electoral process, organizations like Common Cause and the League of Women Voters are focused on ensuring that voters are well-informed, engaged, and actually voting in local elections.
As part of our Fall Fund Drive, we are showcasing some of our writers so that you can learn more about the people and journalism that you are supporting.
Thirty-three percent of all eligible Black men in Pennsylvania are not registered to vote. This needs to change.
We cannot ignore the ugliness of the status quo, with fear driving people apart, books being banned, and teachers training for active shooter drills. We need to keep fighting to protect public education.
Meeting the United Auto Workers’ demands would be a win-win for the climate and for workers’ rights. So, what’s stopping the Big Three from acquiescing?
These students from Bucks County will be focusing on PA politics and want the podcast to serve as a call to action for all young people to get involved in the civic process and demand change.
A review of “QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross: Christianity and Conspiracy Theories,” edited by Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock.
Bob Harvie and Diane Marseglia, lifelong residents of Bucks County, are running for reelection as County Commissioners. We spoke with them about why they are running and why this election is so critical.
As part of our Fall Fund Drive, we are showcasing some of our writers so you can learn more about the people and journalism that you are supporting.
New Pennsylvania Project CEO Kadida Kenner said the new measure “will undoubtedly help to close the voter registration gap, especially in communities of color where the gap is the most pronounced.”
It plans to visit all 67 counties and help local leaders and organizations solve problems tearing communities apart by promoting and prioritizing peace, understanding, and tolerance.
If we taught peace lessons to youth each year – grades K-12 – would they change how they handle conflict?
Once again the Moms for Liberty school board majority continues to push its politically motivated agenda with its proposed athletics policy.
If the Bucks County Beacon is going to be here for the long haul, and save the area from becoming a news desert where extremism and authoritarianism flourishes, we need the community to invest in our independent media project.
