Democrat Ashley Ehasz, on Thursday, announced that she plans to run for Congress in the 1st District again in 2024, setting up a possible rematch with incumbent Republican Brian Fitzpatrick.
It’s with good reason that newspaper candidate endorsements have fallen by the wayside in recent years. Newspapers, already struggling with declining circulation numbers and advertising dollars, are …
So many of our Pennsylvania communities, both suburban and rural, are being flooded with stolen guns and the related violence. In March alone, a serial straw purchaser — someone who legally …
Of the five Central Bucks School Board directors up for reelection this year, three have chosen not to run again. After a tumultuous two years that found the school district embroiled in controversies around masking and school closures, LGBTQ+ rights, a new library policy and other issues, this primary election is in sharp focus for many in the 17,000-student district.
In an emotional and detailed letter to the community, Central Bucks School District Superintendent Abram Lucabaugh pointed to adults to correct the “chaos” that’s embroiled the suburban …
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 …
It was only recently that the Herald announced a commitment to reduce political strife in future articles and editorial pages. That sees to have been short-lived. A March 2 guest opinion, titled …
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. …
Wrightstown resident Stephen Nowmos was appointed to the Council Rock School Board during a special Tuesday Feb. 28 meeting, despite a controversy about some Facebook posts he allegedly made that …
A report on votes by local legislators in Washington and Harrisburg. “On the Record” is supported by a grant to the Bucks County Herald Foundation made possible by Melissa Eiseman.
I am both sorry for and grateful to John Fetterman for his honesty around checking into Walter Reed for treatment of severe depression. It took courage to tell the truth of his situation, at the risk …
At present we have a one-party state in New Britain Borough. Democrats occupy all 7 borough council positions. A government is often ill-served by the concentration of political power in one …
I taught English and retired from CB South in 2016. When I began at Unami in the ‘90s, I thought Central Bucks the most enlightened district ever. In every decade in the second half of the 20th …
In an open letter, dozens of school board members from more than 20 Pennsylvania districts called for the repeal of Central Bucks School District’s policy banning teachers from “advocacy …
On Feb. 14, the League of Women Voters celebrated its 103rd birthday. Since 1920, six months before the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, the National American Woman …
Public comments at the Feb. 7 Central Bucks School Board meeting were not particularly focused on the policies up for vote that evening. Rather, the vast majority of comments centered on addressing …
A panel discussion at Bucks County Community College to promote open primaries in Pennsylvania also evolved into a free flowing talk on other ways to possibly lower the temperature on hyper-partisan …
All 18 Bucks County judges have recused themselves from hearing a case considering the redistricting of voting maps for the Central Bucks School District.In an order from the Bucks County Court of …
One would think that after scores of people, who for their activities on Jan. 6, 2021, have been convicted of seditious conspiracy (defined as to “conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by …
The Bucks County residents who we’ve elected to represent us in Harrisburg have raised their hands and promised to give us their best. We wish them ours as they begin the legislative session …
