Bucks County Beacon

4 days ago | buckscountybeacon.com | Stephen Kinzer

After bombing Iran, President Donald Trump sent out one of his trademark all-capital-letters missives: “NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!” he wrote. Dream on. Trump has become the latest American president to plunge violently into the Middle East. His adventure, like most of the previous ones, will not achieve its goals. Instead it will further destabilize a region that has been suffering from outside intervention for the better part of a century.

2 weeks ago | buckscountybeacon.com | Marc Edelman |Barn Raiser

This story was originally published by Barn Raiser, your independent source for rural and small town news. Nah, he wouldn’t really do that.”I’ve lived in the Upper Delaware Valley for five years, first in Pike County, Pennsylvania, and now in Sullivan County, New York. My county went 58% for Trump last November, and several of my pro-Trump neighbors made remarks like that in the lead-up to the election.

3 weeks ago | buckscountybeacon.com | Melinda Rizzo

The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the Community Justice Project filed a lawsuit Friday against Bucks County Sheriff Fred Harran over an ‘illegal’ 287(g) ICE partnership, along with naming Bucks County as a defendant in the suit. The lawsuit requests the court to issue an injunction.

3 weeks ago | buckscountybeacon.com | Aidan Tyksinski

While the midterm elections are a little over 17 months away, Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie just picked up another endorsement in his bid to unseat Pennsylvania 1st Congressional District’s Republican incumbent Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick. According to the Harvie Campaign, he has already been endorsed by 28 current and former elected officials from across Pennsylvania. Now there is another to add to that list: former PA Congressman Matt Cartwright.

3 weeks ago | buckscountybeacon.com | Kiley Bense

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. For years, residents of Grove City, Pennsylvania, have fought to stop a decades-old landfill from resuming operations in their town. They were worried the landfill would make legacy pollution in the area worse. But in 2022, information about the kind of waste the landfill would accept raised new fears.