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Your Vote Decides – Nov 1, 2024

  ELECTIONS MATTER  Only four more days until the frenzy of the campaign season comes to an end, especially in PA where the presidential candidates and their high-profile surrogates have been going nonstop to get our votes. We’ll all breathe a sigh of...

A Move to Make Things Right – Oct 25, 2024

  THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW, RIGHT?  For too long, the “lock ’em up” mentality ruled, and children who crossed the law were locked up in facilities that offered little teaching and lots of trauma. In addition to widespread physical and sexual...

Feed their Bodies to Fuel their Minds – Oct 18, 2024

  ENDING CHILD HUNGER, ONE SCHOOL LUNCH AT A TIME  It’s National School Lunch Week and he’s what Ryan Prater, Director of Public Policy at Feeding Pennsylvania has to say about it. Lunch. It was always the first thing I looked for when I got my...

No More Waiting for Mental Healthcare – Oct 11, 2024

  ADDRESS YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH BEFORE CRISIS ERUPTS  We couldn’t say it better than State  Rep. and emergency physician, Arvind Venkat, who has a unique perspective on both mental health and what lawmakers can do about it. Here is his published commentary that ran...

What are the candidates saying about kids? – Oct 4, 2024

  Kids and family issues are in the debates…how refreshing Pennsylvania is center of the campaign universe. PA voters have the power to tilt the political playing field in one direction or another. So much so that in this week alone, four major debates gave...