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Some 10 days after it warned it might run out of money and shut down in January, Morrisville School District this week felt a “huge sense of relief” learning the new Pennsylvania budget guarantees funding to keep it open. Passage of the $50.1 billion budget, ending a...

MORRISVILLE, Pa. (WPVI) -- The Morrisville School District is facing a financial crisis that could force the closure of its public schools by the end of January if Pennsylvania lawmakers fail to pass a long-overdue state budget. At a joint meeting Tuesday night...

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA — As the PA State Budget impasse continues, Lower Bucks County Democratic lawmakers have sent a message to their GOP colleagues to make a deal. State Sen. Steve Santarsiero held a press conference late last week with fellow Democrats, calling...

BUCKINGHAM TOWNSHIP, PA - State Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) and State Rep. Tim Brennan (D-29) are teaming up to host an Electronics Recycling event on Saturday, Oct. 4 in Central Bucks County. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to noon at Central Bucks East...

ABC/Disney’s craven decision to cancel Jimmy Kimmel should worry all Americans. The fact that yet another corporation has caved under pressure from the Trump Administration is concerning enough. That the pressure was in direct response to Mr. Kimmel voicing his...

State Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) hosted state Department of Transportation officials on a road tour around the 10th Senate District, announcing planned roadway repair projects, highlighting needed improvements, and applauding work that has recently been...

Local Democratic lawmakers called the Republican State Senate transit bill, which failed to pass a Thursday night vote, a “Band-Aid” for SEPTA funding that didn’t offer a sustainable long-term solution during a press conference hosted by State Sen. Steve Santarsiero...

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — Gov. Josh Shapiro appeared in Falls Township late last week to help launch the new high-tech Amazon data center. State Sen. Steve Santarsiero joined Shapiro Thursday at the site of the new data center at the North Point Keystone Trade Center on the...

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY — State Sen. Steve Santarsiero is taking it to the streets. The senator will host PennDOT representatives as he takes his annual road tour on Thursday around the 10th Senate District, which includes parts of Lower Bucks County.

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — State Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) will be hitting the road with officials with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) during a summer road tour on Thursday through the 10th Senatorial District, which stretches from Buckingham...

BUCKINGHAM TOWNSHIP, PA — Buckingham Township has been awarded a $2 million grant from the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority (Pennvest) to build a new PFAS remediation system at the Hearthstone water treatment facility. The project will include the...

NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP, PA — Two new pedestrian safety signals are officially in operation at Sycamore Street and Silo Drive and at the mid-block crossing at Tara Boulevard and Newtown-Yardley Road. State Senator Steve Santarsiero and State Rep. Perry Warren were joined by...

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — State Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) and State Rep. Perry Warren (D-31) are partnering with PA CareerLink in Bucks County to host a mobile assistance event for job seekers on Wednesday, July 30 at the Bucks County Community College Newtown Campus....

A project to expand Bucks County's only domestic violence shelter got a $6.11 million boost in state funding. The funding comes from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) HOME Investment Partnerships American Rescue Plan...

State officials told Upper Makefield residents Tuesday that new testing near a pipeline leak showing "elevated" levels of certain toxic chemicals is surprising and needs to be investigated. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection officials made these...

WILKES-BARRE — A bipartisan group of state lawmakers from the Flood Insurance Premium Assistance Task Force on Tuesday announced the advancement of legislation that would give Pennsylvania home buyers information regarding flood risks when purchasing residential...

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — Amazon's decision to choose Bucks County as one of two places in Pennsylvania to build a high-tech data center is being applauded by local lawmakers. State Rep. Jim Prokopiak and State Sen. Steve Santarsiero celebrated the announcement that Falls...

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency has announced more than $2.8 million in grants for multiple Bucks County projects under the Pennsylvania Housing Affordability and Rehabilitation Enhancement program. The announcement was made by State Senator...

Thirty-five years ago, I was a young law student at Penn working at a student-run clinic for food stamp recipients at Community Legal Services’ offices at 52nd and Chestnut Streets in West Philadelphia. It was there that I met my wife, Ronni, who was a fellow student...

The Bucks County Beacon recently published what purported to be a news story on the passage of Senate Bill 780, a piece of legislation that addresses homeless encampments. I say purported, because in the second paragraph of the piece, its author abruptly veers from...

A lot has changed since 2004. In that year, some enterprising Harvard students launched TheFacebook, Yahoo.com was the most visited website and a ninth grade student named Taylor Alison Swift was looking for a record deal.