by The Center Square | Mar 15, 2021
by Jason Schaumburg Georgia’s decision to delay processing tax year 2020 individual returns helped lead to a net tax collection of nearly $2 billion in February. Georgia followed the Internal Revenue Service’s guidance of not accepting and...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 15, 2021
by Steven Greenhut The whole point of the Biden administration’s budget-busting $1.9 trillion stimulus bill is to aid struggling workers after the COVID-19 shutdowns obliterated their earnings. The legislation is also, as CNN described it, “a platform for a...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 15, 2021
by Steven Hall A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced the Sunshine Protection Act, which would extend daylight saving time to year-round, rather than keep it at eight months. One of those lawmakers, Sen. Marco Rubio, says the change would “give our...
by The Center Square | Mar 15, 2021
by Bethany Blankley The PRO Act, which passed the U.S. House Tuesday on a largely partisan vote, could eliminate most forms of independent contracting, gig work and freelancing – potentially impacting as many as 59 million freelance workers who represent 36...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 15, 2021
by Christian Schneider Citing an increase in “bias” and “hate” on campus, the UW-Madison student government recently voted unanimously to double the ethnic studies requirement needed to graduate from three credits to six. “UW-Madison is responsible for...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 15, 2021
by Benjamin Zeisloft The University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School hosted a panel event called “Decolonizing the Stacks,” which provided examples of eliminating bias and discrimination from its library systems. The event was part of Penn Carey Law’s...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 15, 2021
by Phill Kline John Adams, in humility, had “firmness in the right as God [gave] him to see the right,” and he submitted his political future to choosing right. Even the severely abridged version of history taught in most elementary and high schools generally...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 15, 2021
by Bradley Stein Democratic Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler submitted a request to the Portland City Council on Thursday for a one-time $2 million expenditure for police, months after the council voted to cut nearly $16 million from the police bureau’s budget....
by The Center Square | Mar 15, 2021
by Bethany Blankley Eleven states, led by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, have filed a motion to intervene in a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals case over challenges to a 2018 public charge rule change that required immigrants coming to the U.S. to prove...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 15, 2021
by Catherine Smith Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos who announced plans to step down as Amazon’s CEO last month to focus on philanthropic and science interests, is set to spend the $10 billion he invested in the Bezos Earth Fund by 2030, the Associated Press reported....
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 15, 2021
by Alex Munguia The University of Florida spent $38,000 on a new diversity, equity, and inclusion training for students that is “not a requirement,” but has a due date. The training is similar to those that students take relating to alcohol, drug...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 15, 2021
by Eric Lendrum On Tuesday, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) publicly petitioned for the World Health Organization (WHO) to let the Chinese government take charge of a proposed “vaccine passport” system for the entire world in the aftermath of the coronavirus...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 15, 2021
by Robert Romano In 2011, before serving for the House of Representatives’ 6th Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN-06), current chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, was a national spokesperson for the National Popular Vote...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 15, 2021
by Chuck Ross House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leaving Rep. Eric Swalwell on the House Intelligence Committee, she announced on Friday, despite the California Democrat’s close contacts with an alleged Chinese spy. Swalwell for years maintained contact with...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 15, 2021
by Catherine Smith Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05) on Thursday reintroduced a bill that would guarantee full payment forgiveness on nationwide rent and home mortgage payments throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Currently many outstanding payments during the...
by Chris Butler | Mar 15, 2021
Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R-Cumming) told a nationally-televised audience Sunday that his fellow Republicans should move past former U.S. President Donald Trump and forget passing certain election reform bills. Duncan said this on NBC’s Meet the Press. “We...
