
Advocates, educators and parents delivered a message to Harrisburg Wednesday from the steps of the Delaware County Courthouse some 95 miles away: Don’t enact a state budget that will do real harm to working people and families in our communities.
Halfway through the press conference, a tall, broad-shouldered man named Wilson Bryant, who had been standing all the way in the back, head and shoulders above the crowd, walked to the front. He said he didn’t have a speech prepared but wanted to testify about his personal story. He had become seriously ill, he said, and, without health insurance, had lost his home and with it his sense of hope.