by Susan Berry, PhD | Apr 2, 2022
The Twitter account known as Libs of Tik Tok featured a video of a Florida first-grade teacher bemoaning how she can possibly proceed with teaching the six-year-olds in her class when the state’s new Parental Rights in Education Act prevents her from discussing...
by Star News Staff | Apr 2, 2022
by Kerry McDonald They’re not exactly schools, but they’re not homeschools either. They have elements of structured curriculum and institutional learning, while offering maximum educational freedom and flexibility. They provide a consistent, off-site community...
by Susan Berry, PhD | Apr 2, 2022
The Biden administration released documents Thursday that endorse children and adolescents with claims of gender dysphoria to experience “gender-affirming care,” including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and body-mutilating transgender surgeries, including...
by Grant Holcomb | Apr 2, 2022
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker wrote a decision striking down parts of an election integrity bill passed by the Florida Legislature and signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) last year. The provisions that were struck down were the parts that limited the...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Apr 2, 2022
An appellate court this week upheld a lower court’s ruling that a local bakery was defamed by Oberlin College, a private liberal arts school in Ohio. In 2019, Oberlin was ordered to pay the maximum of $11 million in compensatory damages, $33 million in punitive...
by Eric Burk | Apr 2, 2022
Governor Glenn Youngkin launched the Safe and Sound Task force to create safe placements for children in foster care, and said that from February 1 through July 30 2021, 163 children spent at least one night in unsuitable arrangements such as local social services...
by The Center Square | Apr 2, 2022
by T.A. DeFeo Georgians soon could be able to carry guns outside their houses without a license. The Georgia House voted, 100-67, Wednesday in favor of Senate Bill 319 to eliminate the need for a permit. Currently, Georgians must obtain a firearms license,...
by The Center Square | Apr 2, 2022
by Mary Stroka Minnesota saw more deaths that were wholly attributable to alcohol in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic than in the previous three years, Minnesota Department of Public Health data show. “The majority of alcohol-attributable deaths are related to...
by The Center Square | Apr 2, 2022
by Anthony Hennen Small businesses worry about the power of larger corporations in the marketplace, but they’re also unhappy with the subsidies and tax breaks big businesses get from the government. A survey of independent small businesses published by the...
by Julie Carr | Apr 2, 2022
Neil W. McCabe, the national political editor of The Star News Network, interviewed veteran Washington reporter and editor John Solomon about the stories he broke about corruption in Ukraine, many of them involving the Biden family, for The Hill newspaper....
by Star News Staff | Apr 2, 2022
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by Peter D'Abrosca | Apr 2, 2022
Connecticut’s plan to reduce the pain at the gas pump for its residents took effect Friday. HB 5501 passed the state legislature last week. It, like laws in many other states, provides for a gas tax holiday as prices at the pump continue to hover at near-record...
by Julie Carr | Apr 2, 2022
Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton told Dan Mandis on Nashville’s Morning News, broadcast weekday mornings on Nashville radio station 99.7 WTN the benefits of a $500 million bond deal to add a retractable roof to Titans Stadium. Mandis: Happy Friday to you....
by Rachel Alexander | Apr 2, 2022
Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has come under fire for her handling of the electronic system used to collect online signatures for political candidates, E-Qual. The system was not updated to accommodate new redistricting, which has made it very difficult...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Apr 2, 2022
A bill that would strip some funding from schools that break Tennessee’s new law on transgender athletes Thursday passed the Tennessee State House of Representatives. “I’m very pleased that the House passed this legislation and I’m confident the Senate chamber...
by Cooper Moran | Apr 2, 2022
Gino Bulso, an attorney and resident of Williamson County, on Friday launched his campaign to represent the people of District 61 in the Tennessee House of Representatives. Bulso runs his own law firm in Brentwood and has lived in the area for more than two decades....
by Neil W. McCabe | Apr 2, 2022
Nashville Mayor John Cooper’s chief of staff told The Tennessee Star she thinks it’s great that T.J. Ducklo, the Biden White House press secretary, fired for threatening a White House reporter with: “I will destroy you,” joined the mayor’s staff. “T.J’s experience and...
by Bethany Bowman | Apr 2, 2022
NASHVILLE, Tennessee – Ian Flanigan hails from Hudson Valley’s Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, not far from the site of the famed Woodstock festival. But where you might remember him is from Season 19 of NBC’s The Voice. I wanted to find out how he got...
by Star News Staff | Apr 2, 2022
by Laurel Duggan The Transportation Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security announced new, gender-neutral security measures Thursday. The TSA will update its advanced imaging technology (AIT) at airport checkpoints with the help of $18.6...
by Star News Staff | Apr 2, 2022
by Thomas Catenacci President Joe Biden asked Congress to hit oil companies with fines for not producing energy on permitted leases as part of his sweeping plan to address U.S. energy prices. “Today, President Biden is calling on Congress to make companies pay...
by Star News Staff | Apr 2, 2022
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