Students and commuters have talked of needing to get up earlier to make time for longer commutes, unusually crowded buses and skipped stops.
The accurate truth is that this funding is an investment in the economic engine that drives our state forward, writes state Rep. Melissa Shusterman.
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
“Our kids are not bargaining chips,” PSEA President Aaron Chapin said. “Our kids are not pawns in some grand strategy to enact a tuition voucher scheme that will shift taxpayer dollars away from our public schools and send them to private and religious schools.”
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
The cuts that took effect on the first day of the school year in the nation’s sixth-most populous city could herald a wave of similar moves by major transit agencies around the U.S. as they struggle with rising costs and lagging ridership.
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
“This was a terrible investment of taxpayer money,” one analyst said.
“Families in Bucks County and across the state are in crisis—not due to negligence on their part, but due to failures within a system that was supposed to protect them,” said Levittown parent Marlyn Rivera.
Matt McClanahan and Lauren McChesney bought Shankweiler’s Drive-In in Orefield, Pennsylvania, in 2022 after learning the property might be sold to developers.
“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.
The judicial races have become more partisan following court battles over mail voting and redistricting.
Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti, 45, is viewed by party operatives as a rising star in Pennsylvania. She will try to unseat Republican freshman Rep. Rob Bresnahan.
CEO pay has risen nearly 35 percent since 2019 in absolute terms, while their median worker pay hasn’t even kept up with the U.S. inflation rate.
