Looking for America’s most bipartisan member of Congress? He’s right here in the Delaware Valley. Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania’s First Congressional District is at the top of new rankings released by the Lugar Center, a D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting bipartisanship. The rankings measure “how often a member of Congress introduces bills that […]

The attorney for the Chester Water Authority (CWA) told area lawmakers the City of Chester’s financial problems were ignored for years and the resulting push by the state to sell the utility is the product of a “manufactured financial crisis.” Francis “Frank” Catania is the attorney for CWA. He made those comments in a series […]

Bucks County commissioners told Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration they must know by this Wednesday what date the county can rely upon to move to the next phase of reopening the economy from the coronavirus shutdown. Commissioners told the Wolf administration the reopening should be May 31 or earlier. All three of the Bucks County commissioners […]

Editor’s Note: For another viewpoint, see Counterpoint: America Is About to Get a Hard Lesson on Faulty Vote-By-Mail System We recently saw people forced to choose between their personal safety and their right to vote in Wisconsin. We still don’t know the full damage holding the Wisconsin primary without expanded mail-in voting options caused, but […]

Editor’s Note: For another viewpoint, see Point: Vote-by-Mail Is Essential Advocates for mandatory mail-in ballot elections often claim they are expanding democracy. What they overlook, is that the mail-voting system has gaping flaws. In the last decade, 30 million mail ballots were sent to the wrong addresses and/or went missing entirely, according to election officials. […]

Is it insensitive to view nursing home infections differently when it comes to determining whether communities are safe enough to reopen local businesses? That’s the argument Montgomery County Chairwoman Dr. Valerie Arkoosh makes, and some Bucks County officials find it offensive. Bucks and Delaware County advocates have asked Gov. Tom Wolf to take into account […]

Both Delaware and Bucks counties are hoping they can persuade Gov. Tom Wolf to exclude nursing home infection numbers when deciding which counties can begin reopening from the coronavirus shutdown. But for anyone hoping that idea would spread to neighboring Montgomery County, it seems unlikely that officials there will be jumping on that bandwagon anytime […]

It’s not an understatement to say every Pennsylvanian has been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Thousands have faced the virus itself, over a million children are not in school and more than 1.5 million workers have lost their jobs as a result of Gov. Tom Wolf’s shutdown. The governor assures us his decisions are “data-driven,” and […]