Amity Township resident Mark Deal took the stand on May 26th to protest the factory farm being proposed 2500 feet away from his house. Deal, a retired engineer and adjoining property owner, fears the facility […]
The Pennsylvania Budget season hath commence and the Senate is gearing up to vote on a bill that keeps the hamster wheel that is poverty spinning and spinning. Senate Bill 1265 was introduced on May 13th, […]
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Colleen Clemens’s blog, Reflections on Gender and Postcolonial Issues, on June 2. Check out all her great work and tell her that Raging Chicken sent ya! I am […]
NEWS RELEASE: Delaware Riverkeeper Network Delaware/New Jersey/New York/Pennsylvania – In a move targeted to protect Atlantic Sturgeon, an endangered species, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) today released a proposal designating critical habitat in sixteen […]
At the opening session of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC)‘s recent annual business meeting held in Denver, Colorado, the commission’s Nebraska state representative Bill Sydow was closing up at the horseshoe-shaped roundtable by making a […]
Last Friday telecommunications giant Verizon came to a tentative agreement with Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and after spending seven weeks on the picket lines, nearly 40,000 Verizon workers […]
July 2016 marks Raging Chicken Press’s 5 year anniversary. It’s been quite a journey. As part of our anniversary agenda, we have launched a new podcast, Raging Chicken Radio, and we are looking to expand […]
A bill that is specifically designed to allow financial institutions to plunder wages from the paychecks of low wage workers is making its way through the Pennsylvania General Assembly. A floor vote in the Senate […]
Residents of Amity Township have been flocking to monthly conditional use hearings to raise issues surrounding a proposed turkey growing facility. But while residents share concerns about nuisance odors, out-of-control fly populations, and water quality issues […]
When the General Assembly returned from their primary vacation, Republicans began to move forward the “Protecting Excellent Teachers” Act, which would remove teacher seniority and replace it with an evaluation metric imposed by former Governor […]