On Tuesday morning, PASSHE students, faculty and their allies rallied at the Dixon University Center in Harrisburg. Their mission: “take back” the state system from administrators who don’t understand the concerns of educators and the economic […]
On Feb 24, President Trump signed an executive order that established a policy to relieve the country of “unnecessary regulatory burdens.” Trump’s environmental agenda includes the destruction of Obama’s not-yet-implemented Clean Power Plan, a rollback […]
She persisted. That has been one of the many themes coming from the resistance since the Trump Organization took over Washington DC. It became a rallying cry when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell turned […]
Fliers promoting the White Nationalist – or the alt-right – podcast “The Daily Shoah” were spotted on Kutztown University’s campus. This is the second time this semester material promoting white nationalism was spotted on the university’s campus. The first […]
Earlier today, faculty members at Clarion University were told that retrenchment is on the table. That means that administrators are planning on gutting more faculty and programs from a university that a brutal round of […]
Across the 14 universities of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, students are leading a movement for #OurPASSHE—a state system that prioritizes our needs and our futures. We demand living wages for student and […]
Ding, Dong, the Clean Power Plan is dead. Them’s fightin’ words in environmental circles. I know. I serve on the steering committee of Pennsylvanians Against Fracking where we spent much of last year analyzing the […]
Nurses and Technicians at Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Upper Darby walked off the job at 6:45 am on Sunday launching a two-day strike. Pennsylvania Staff Nurses and Affiliated Professionals (PASNAP), the union representing striking […]
In a display of blatant hypocrisy, the Pennsylvania state Senate voted yesterday to further regulate labor unions political spending but not that of corporations. By a vote of 28-22, the Senate passed a bill blocking […]
Pennsylvania Republicans just rushed one of country’s most restrictive and least transparent abortion bans through the Senate chamber with a 32-18 vote. The bill fell one vote short from obtaining a veto-proof majority, and it […]