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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Buckingham Assembly Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses will return to full operation in early March as more than 1,600 attend the first in-person religious conference held there in nearly three years, …
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, approximately 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers and 8,000 Ukrainian civilians have died and 30,000 Russian soldiers have died. Fourteen million …
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 …
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 …
We’re all experiencing the effects of these difficult, post-pandemic times. Especially young people. They are navigating post-lockdown life with the intense pressures of screen-based friendships, …
