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Newtown, Bucks County, PA
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Accomplishments
Bucks County sues Exxon Mobil, Chevron, others over climate change - The Bucks County Herald
In a lawsuit filed Monday, Bucks County claimed several of the world’s major oil and gas companies knowingly deceived the public about the dangers of their products and ignored their impact on the climate.
Bucks County Herald
Newtown Borough Council To Vote On Single-Use Plastics Ordinance
Update: It passed! The new regulations banning single-use plastic bags and Styrofoam food containers will take effect in 180 days.
Newtown Patch
Newtown Township Awarded Grant For Pedestrian Safety Projects
The money will be used to install flashing beacons at two unsignalized intersections in the township.
Newtown Patch
Steeple View Project Clears Parking Hurdle In Newtown Borough
Council approves shared use parking conditional use; the decision comes with 16 conditions requiring, among other things, a parking study.
Newtown Patch
Flood Relief Bill Passes with Support from Rep. Warren and Sen. Santarsiero
At the Yardley Inn this week, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed a new House bill to assemble a task force to recommend policies to make flood insurance more affordable for Pennsylvanians.
Bucks County Herald
Newtown Township Enacts Ban On Certain Single-Use Plastics
Beginning in the spring of 2024, restaurants and stores will be banned from using single-use plastic carry out bags.
Newtown Patch
Election 2024
Fitzpatrick should press Johnson for Ukraine funding vote
Our congressman voted to seat MAGA Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House. On orders from Trump, he promptly brought bipartisan legislation to a halt. Why won't Fitzpatrick correct his mistake?
Bucks County Herald
Pennsylvania Dems seal House majority with special election win
Jim Prokopiak won a seat in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Politico
Biden's Bold New Approach to Global Affairs
The Biden administration has built on the stability of the rules-based order to make it more democratic, encouraging more peoples, nations, and groups to participate more fully in it.
Heather Cox Richardson on Substack
Rematch: Ashley Ehasz Challenges Fitzpatrick in 2024
Democrat Ashley Ehasz is leveraging her experiences from a 2022 defeat. She announced her largest fundraising haul this week.
Levittown Now
Member-Authors in the Media
Senator Bob Casey: An American Everyman - Bucks County Beacon
He actually champions the needs of ordinary American people: women’s reproductive freedom, the strength of our democracy, the prosperity of workers, lowering the cost of consumer goods, and preventing child poverty.
Bucks County Beacon
OPINION: GOP Incompetence or Complicity? - Bucks County Beacon
Any way you look at it, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick is part of the problem of the Republican Party’s growing, and unchecked, extremism.
Steve Cickay in the Bucks County Beacon
Reflections On Democratic Success in 2023
After sweeping Democratic victories, there’s hope in the air for 2024 that maybe we can finally turn the page on MAGA extremism both locally and nationally.
Steve Cickay in the Bucks County Beacon
News and Views
President Biden's flaws do not include the desire to establish an imperial presidency.
The outcry of Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans over the coinciding of Easter with the Transgender Day of Visibility is yet another example of far-right intolerance and disparagement of anyone who is different. The concept “Let us love one another.” [John 4:7] is absent in all of this shrill and divisive rhetoric.
In Senator Katie Britt’s conservative Republican rebuttal of Biden’s State of the Union speech the biggest message was in the background: the kitchen. Whether she decided this, or was simply an unwitting dupe, the kitchen motif was a blatant tell of the conservative Christian Republican party’s view of women and where they belong.
Short Takes
Trump’s Snooze in Court
Re “First Criminal Trial of a Former President Begins” (New York Times, April 16):
All other aspects aside about the start of Donald Trump’s criminal trial, can you imagine what huge hue and cry would resound if it were Joe Biden — not Mr. Trump — who appeared to fall asleep in his chair in the courtroom on Day 1? Pundits would roar. The earth would shake. And votes would move.
Mimi Reimel
Langhorne, PA
Langhorne, PA
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