With Earth Day approaching, it’s important to spotlight our plastic pollution problem – as well as the communities taking the lead in reining it in.
“This [is] an effort to try and increase capacity so we can provide services to the constituents who come into this building now,” said Bucks County COO Margie McKevitt.
Funds will help the Bucks County Coroner’s office screen for drug overdose deaths quickly; $2.2 million will go toward drug and alcohol treatment and relapse prevention among the county’s prison population.
The author’s depictions of congressional violence and polarized politics strike a nerve as the political and social climate of today is eerily similar.
Will Bucks law really slow human trafficking?
“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.
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.
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
“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.
“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.
