Updated 3:07 PM; Posted 11:10 AM A recent report by the Joint State Government Commission on capital punishment in Pennsylvania recommends numerous policy changes. (pennlive.com file photo) By Express-Times guest columnist By David Rose As an opponent of the death penalty, I was pleased to … Continued
Insurers are at the vanguard of a movement to put a value today on the unpredictable future of a warming planet By Bradley Hope and Nicole Friedman Produced by Jess Kuronen and Tyler Paige When a wildfire engulfed the Canadian … Continued
From Interfaith Power and Light (http://interfaithpowerandlight.org): As a person of faith, we are called to live out our love for the sacred and for our neighbors through our advocacy to protect the earth upon which we all depend. In 2017, … Continued
Harrisburg, PA – Pennsylvania’s inadequate public investment in higher education over the last decade has contributed to rising tuition prices, often leaving students with little choice but to take on more debt or give up on their dreams of going … Continued
From Families USA (http://www.familiesusa.org): Families USA has released a new short analysis on the Trump Administration’s continued attacks on immigrant children and families, highlighting its latest efforts to dismantle the long-standing Flores Settlement Agreement, and in doing so, eliminate basic … Continued
Posted at https://www.blackpressusa.com/commentary-the-dirty-water-rule-will-heighten-the-clean-water-crisis-for-black-americans/ By Niva Lubin-Johnson, M.D., FACP, 119th President, National Medical Association Clean water is a basic human right. Still, too many low-income communities and communities of color are not receiving their right of clean water. They are being … Continued
From Lancaster Against Pipelines (http://www.wearelancastercounty.org/): Recently, Williams/Transco tore down a Cross and Prayer Labyrinth on the Sisters’ own land to push ahead with their plans to push gas through the ASP. This is despite the fact, or perhaps due to … Continued
From the Union of Concerned Scientists (http://www.ucsusa.org): Amid the headlines on the Supreme Court and the federal budget, you may have missed that on September 30, Congress failed to meet a critical deadline, allowing the farm bill to expire. The … Continued
From PennFuture (http://www.pennfuture.org): The current version of the House Farm Bill is packed with attacks on environmental laws and America’s national forests — and we need you to take action today to fight it at https://pennfuture.salsalabs.org/takeaction_farmbill/index.html. Provisions in the current … Continued
Over the last five decades, right-wing courts have diluted the impact of monumental gains made by the civil rights movement of the 50’s and 60’s. Today, unacceptable, deep inequities persist in people’s access to quality education, affordable insurance, mortgages or … Continued