You shouldn't be taxed out of the home you worked your whole life to afford.
We can have strong public schools and lower property taxes. Pennsylvania just needs the political will to make it happen.
These projects strain our water supply, burden our power grid, and give very little back to the communities hosting them. Fern supports a 3 year moratorium and is committed to making sure the people of NEPA come first, not special interest groups.
The fight for affordable utilities, local control, and accountable government isn’t always easy, but giving up isn’t an option.
We’ll keep showing up. We’ll keep speaking out. And we’ll keep fighting for the people who have to live with the consequences long after the lobbyists leave.
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Your utility bill shouldn't be going up because a corporation decided to build a massive data center down the road. The PUC just approved another increase, this needs to stop!đź’ˇ
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all of those things that come along with it. It’s bad for our ecosystem, it’s bad for our local wildlife, and so on.”
We cannot back down.
Not when utility bills keep rising. Not when powerful interests expect communities to stay quiet. Not when massive data center projects threaten to reshape our region without answers about the long-term costs.
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Property taxes were never supposed to become a second mortgage.
For too many Pennsylvania families, homeowners are paying more and more while schools are still being asked to do more with less.
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Because Northeast Pennsylvania is not for sale.
"Affordability is a huge issue everywhere, but when you look at it here, we have seen in other areas that the utility bills skyrocket, we get stuck paying for the infrastructure, we get stuck paying for the extra power, we get stuck losing the water, and
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The answer isn't to shortchange our schools. It's for the state to finally do its part. We need more equitable school funding, greater investment in public education, and meaningful property tax relief for homeowners, seniors, and working families.
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