Bucks County Changemakers Interview with Carol Cooke and Lori Wallace Kesilman
They are creating a community of LGBTQ+ solidarity in Central Bucks School District – one Progress Pride flag at a time.
They are creating a community of LGBTQ+ solidarity in Central Bucks School District – one Progress Pride flag at a time.
Access to abortion in Pennsylvania could be decided in Delaware County’s May 16 special election.
The board majority puts their political agenda ahead of our community and we are suffering as a district because of it. We need to elect moderate candidates to keep extremism out of our school board.
“Our end goal is that every single kid who leaves Pennridge loves this country and understands our constitution,” said board member Ricki Chaikin. “Right now, that’s not happening.”
Steve Nolan, a 30-year military veteran and published poet, recently served as a peacekeeper at the inauguration of Bucks County’s new Rainbow Room, where dozens of Moms for Liberty and Christian fundamentalists showed up to protest. In response, he wrote this poem about protecting LGBTQ kids.
The last minute addition to tonight’s meeting agenda includes a potential contract with the right-wing Vermilion Education, a business with very little experience that was recently rejected by a school district in Florida.
Both the Respect Life Committee of Saint Peter Catholic Church in Coatesville and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia have endorsed and promoted the event.
Rather than using TANF funds for families in crisis – the actual intent of the program – Pennsylvania has been siphoning off these federal dollars and is one of the nation’s most egregious offenders.
Last week’s million dollar presentation absolving the district of all accusations of LGBTQ discrimination put forth in an ACLU complaint flies in the face of my family’s experiences.
Because authoritarianism is most visible in hindsight, people often don’t recognize it until it’s too late.
“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.
“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.
The Greene County towns are believed to be the first in the state to use the emergency declaration in relation to drinking-water contamination.
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.