Joyce Davis

1 week ago | pennlive.com | Joyce Davis

Updated: Jun. 19, 2025, 8:23 a.m.|Published: Jun. 19, 2025, 8:20 a.m.Joyce M. Davis, Outreach & Opinion Editor. July 23, 2024. Sean Simmers | [email protected] Simmers“This is what democracy looks like.” That’s what thousands of protesters chanted at the recent “No Kings” marches in our region, and anyone who participated or just watched from Facebook had to be inspired. All except for two guys in a pickup truck with a giant, tattered Trump flag waving behind them.

2 weeks ago | pennlive.com | Joyce Davis

Updated: Jun. 10, 2025, 3:28 p.m.|Published: Jun. 10, 2025, 3:22 p.m.Cynthia Watkins, new advisory member of the Patriot-News edit board. Mark Pynes | [email protected] sometimes comes in a small package. That was definitely the case with Cynthia Lee Watkins, described by friends as a “political force,” “legend,” and “treasure” in the Harrisburg region. Watkins died Saturday, June 7 of breast cancer, according to her daughter Myra-Aliya McCoy’s online post. She was 71.

3 weeks ago | pennlive.com | Joyce Davis

It’s a myth that young people don’t read mainstream news or care about the world around them. PennLive’s Editorial pages have benefitted from having young voices not only writing op-eds and letters to the editor, but as members of our editorial board. Pennsylvania students Aarushi Dedhiya, 18, and Sam Pimental, 19, have not been shy about asking questions during editorial board meetings and expressing their views on everything from President Donald Trump’s executive orders to AI in the classroom.

1 month ago | pennlive.com | Joyce Davis

Marc Kline has served members of Temple Ohev Sholom as interim rabbi for almost three years, but he will soon be leaving to enjoy retirement on Florida’s sunny shores. Harrisburg’s Jewish community will assuredly feel his absence, but so will many others in our region. Rabbi Marc Kline accept the 2025 Torch of Global Enlightenment Awards during ceremonies at Penn State Harrisburg on May 22.Russell W. GoodmanIn his short stay here, Rabbi Kline has made a mark on the Harrisburg community.

1 month ago | pennlive.com | Joyce Davis

People all over the world are still celebrating the transformation of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost into Pope Leo XIV, but none more so than Catholics in Pennsylvania and Louisiana. The new pope graduated from Villanova University in the suburbs of Philadelphia with a degree in mathematics. Philadelphia can lay a valid claim to helping shape his intellectual formation. But New Orleans may have an even greater claim – it helped shape his roots, and they are decidedly African American.