by Steve Stewart | Feb 17, 2022
Emails from a Florida Capital Star information request show that Florida school officials in districts across the state have been recruited by Equality Florida to promote LGBTQ issues. Equality Florida is a left-wing political group that advocates for civil...
by Neil W. McCabe | Feb 17, 2022
A controversy over the financial records of the Ohio Republican Party (ORP) erupted in the days leading up to Friday’s meeting of the ORP State Central Committee (ORPSCC), the party’s 66 member governing body, at Lewis Center’s Nationwide Conference...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Feb 17, 2022
Former Trump administration State Department spokesman Morgan Ortagus’ campaign said her voting record shows that she voted in every election she was eligible to vote in. Ortagus announced her candidacy for the GOP nomination in Tennessee’s Fifth Congressional...
by Eric Burk | Feb 17, 2022
RICHMOND, Virginia – Governor Glenn Youngkin signed a school mask-optional bill into law from the steps of the capitol on Wednesday afternoon, hours after the House of Delegates approved his amendments adding an emergency clause and a March 1 effective...
by The Center Square | Feb 17, 2022
by Benjamin Yount Gov. Tony Evers covered a lot of ground during his fourth State of the State, ranging from such topics as farm aid to the internet to tourism. But Republican lawmakers say the governor ignored two of Wisconsin’s most pressing issues: crime and...
by RealClearWire | Feb 17, 2022
by Scott Paul This is a bad year to have paid the International Olympic Committee $100 million for the right to put its iconic rings on your soda cans or shampoo bottles. But this is what the rarefied air of being a top Olympic sponsor buys you in 2022: The...
by Neil W. McCabe | Feb 17, 2022
The chairman of the Ohio Republican Party denied press credentials to The Ohio Star and its national political editor Neil W. McCabe for Friday’s Ohio Republican Party State Central Committee meeting at Lewis Center’s Nationwide Conference Center. “I sent your request...
by Bradley Vasoli | Feb 17, 2022
Governor Tom Wolf (D-PA) is recommending that lawmakers fund state prisons at a lower level in future years than the state’s Department of Corrections has requested. At a budget hearing Wednesday, members of the state House Appropriations Committee...
by Star News Staff | Feb 17, 2022
by Ailan Evans Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn and Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal unveiled a bipartisan bill Wednesday aimed at curbing online harms to children. The Kids Online Safety Act is the result of several hearings and a...
by Star News Staff | Feb 17, 2022
by Debra Heine A gun control activist and Black Lives Matter radical was arrested on Monday in the targeted shooting of Louisville, Kentucky mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg. Quintez Brown was charged with attempted murder and four counts of wanton...
by Star News Staff | Feb 17, 2022
by Harry Wilmerding Consumer spending surged in January amid soaring inflation, the Commerce Department announced Wednesday. Retail sales grew 3.8% in January, far exceeding the 2.1% Dow Jones estimate, the Commerce Department announced Wednesday. January’s...
by Star News Staff | Feb 17, 2022
by Debra Heine The Biden administration plans to make yearly COVID shots mandatory for all Americans, including young children, a Food and Drug Administration executive told a Project Veritas undercover journalist on hidden camera. In the sting video released...
by Eric Burk | Feb 17, 2022
Halfway through the 2022 Virginia General Assembly session, the House of Delegates has passed a wave of Republican reforms focusing on taxes, law enforcement, and education, while much of the Senate’s work has involved Democrats killing Republican bills...
by Cooper Moran | Feb 17, 2022
Parents and residents of San Francisco overwhelmingly voted to recall three school board members in the city’s first recall election since 1983. Alison Collins, Faauuga Moliga and Gabriella Lopez all lost their positions on the governing body, as the...
by Star News Staff | Feb 17, 2022
by Andrei Illarionov and J. Michael Waller Russia’s months of military movements and Biden’s “strategic communications campaign” are psychological operations intended to intimidate Ukraine, Europe, and the rest of the world. There won’t be a big war any time...
by Chris Butler | Feb 17, 2022
A new poll reveals strong support for former Tennessee State Representative Joe Carr’s campaign for Rutherford County Mayor. The Oregon-based Triton Polling and Research released the poll this week. The company polled 455 likely Rutherford County voters between...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 17, 2022
The average home price in Williamson County surpassed $1 million, according to data compiled by the Williamson County Association of Realtors (WCAR). For January 2022, the data shows the average residential home price in Williamson County was $1,025,992 with...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Feb 17, 2022
Metro Nashville Council filled two vacancies for the Community Oversight Board for terms that expired on January 31. Individuals considered for those vacancies were nominated by community organizations. Metro Nashville Council appointed Michael Milliner and...
by Neil W. McCabe | Feb 17, 2022
The Ohio Republican Party’s vice chairman announced Tuesday in an email to all members of the state party’s executive council and the central committee that he intends to block an endorsement of Secretary of State Frank LaRose at Friday’s central committee...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Feb 17, 2022
A Florida U.S. senator Wednesday called for accountability after bombshell reports from Special Counsel John Durham that the intelligence community and Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, spied on former President Donald Trump’s campaign, and continued...
by Susan Berry, PhD | Feb 17, 2022
In a new report released Wednesday at the Boston-based Pioneer Institute, one of America’s top education scholars provides reviews and grades for the nation’s leading civics programs. At a time when the purpose of civics education grows increasingly polarized,...
