Is it just me or, as each year passes, does the recognition of Easter and Good Friday and the significance of the season of Lent become less important to many of us? Most schools are closed, but that …
When Pennsylvanians see two of the largest bank failures in American history occurring mere days apart, it’s understandable that they would have questions about their own local banks. The federal …
Views on the lack of importance of the study of nonwhite and or nonconventional populations, in my opinion, started when the New York Times published “The 1619 Project,” stating that “race” …
Country singers are praying for Nashville. Some are calling out their politicians for their unwillingness to enact sensible gun laws. That’s great. Did you pray for Uvalde? Did you pray for those …
Our family would like to thank the Bucks County Herald, our wonderful Bucks community and beyond for their tireless support of our family and our son Jason Smith and his family as they continue their battle with ALS.
I have had a small flock of chickens for over 30 years. Well, not the same chickens, of course. If you have a farm it doesn’t matter if you don’t need any eggs — chickens fill a very special …
During my childhood in once-sleepy Penndel, an oddity lay in the center of town, supported by stilts — a genuine 50+ passenger airplane-turned-cocktail-lounge. It was the town’s iconic behemoth …
The taxpayers of the Central Bucks School District are placing the governance of our most important and expensive public enterprise in the hands of people who get elected with just a couple thousand …
From the exact moment I was born, doctors, nurses, and family were already counting me out. Devastated by a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis (CF), my later diagnosis of stage IV colon cancer in July 2021 …
The EPA last updated its soot (particulate matter) standards in 2013, and while the EPA has recently proposed strengthening the standard, the proposal it released does not go nearly far enough and …
Did COVID-19 somehow march out of the lab in Wuhan China in 2019 and infect the world on its way to killing over 20 million people? We’ll never know for sure, but the U.S. Department of Energy now …
It’s Sunshine Week across the nation, and the annual event underscores the importance of open government. That makes it a great time to explore some common issues with Pennsylvania’s open …
Over the past year, The League of Women Voters has submitted articles to the Herald with the goal of encouraging Bucks ounty citizens to commit to voting, and to prepare themselves to vote …
Editor’s Note: The authors of this open letter to the Central Bucks School Board collected more than 800 signatures of support for its contents from other alumni, as well as about two dozen current students.
Three of the scariest words in the English language are spoken thousands of times a day in doctors’ offices across the country: “You have cancer.” This year, more than 12,000 Pennsylvania women …
We all probably regret something we’ve done in our lives. Some of us get over it in time — and some of us carry it like a backpack filled with rocks for 50 years. It was my second year at West …
I am writing in response to the March 2 guest opinion “Repblicans, Fitzpatrick and socialism.” The author holds the 188th Congress in contempt for forwarding House Resolution 9 to the Senate. …
The painful experience of our son’s recent sentencing was made all the more painful by reading about it in the Bucks County Crimewatch report where some media glean information for …
The Republican Party took control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January. Instead of actually governing, the party seems determined to play meaningless, revenge politics that accomplishes …
In our 2020 decade era, substance abuse, crimes, and gun violence, have been extremely high. Bucks County has to be committed to fighting the dangers that are crimes, drug abuse, and gun violence in …
