by Chris Butler | Mar 16, 2021
Buckhead residents have formed a new group to study whether their upscale commercial and residential district should formally break off from Atlanta and its soaring crime rate and possibly create their own law enforcement agency. This, according to the members...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 16, 2021
by Frank Miele So begins one of the most pivotal pronouncements in the advancement of human liberty. With those words, Thomas Jefferson threw down a gauntlet at the feet of not just the king of England, but also at Parliament and the entire entrenched elite...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 16, 2021
by Catherine Smith On Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that the Biden Administration’s prediction that coronavirus vaccines can lead to relative normalcy by July Fourth is “quite reasonable” —assuming states don’t pull back public safety measures,...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 16, 2021
by Andrew Trunsky The House will vote on two immigration bills this week as the numbers of migrant families and children detained at the southern border surges. The first bill, dubbed the Dream and Promise Act (DPA) would provide a pathway to citizenship for...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 16, 2021
– – – Photo “Brian Sicknick” by US Capitol Police and “Jan 06 at the US Capitol” by Tyler Merbler CC2.0.
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 16, 2021
by Eric Lendrum A spring break celebration in Miami Beach, Florida led to over 100 partygoers being arrested over the weekend after a crowd became unruly, with two police officers being injured, as reported by CNN. The incident took place on Friday night, where...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 16, 2021
by Andrew Trunsky Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill into law Thursday barring transgender athletes in public schools and colleges from competing in women’s sports. The bill, SB 2536, is the first of such legislation to be signed into law...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 16, 2021
by Mary Margaret Olohan Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is “not a nice person” who “doesn’t have any friends,” according to the former lieutenant governor of New York. Former New York Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch discussed the governor’s fall from...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 16, 2021
by Edward Ring It’s hard to imagine a worse time for public education in America. The COVID-19 pandemic has cost millions of K-12 students a year of education, and Joe Biden has been elected president. At a time when innovation in public education is needed...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 16, 2021
by Thomas Catenacci Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio threw his weight of support behind the Amazon workers attempting to unionize at a Bessemer, Alabama warehouse. Rubio endorsed the Bessemer warehouse workers’ effort to unionize in a USA Today...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 16, 2021
by Jessica Custodio-Suny Duchess Democratic Virginia Delegate David Reid has introduced legislation, passed by the House of Delegates, which would require some public universities to provide reparations to ancestors of slaves who worked at the universities. The...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 16, 2021
by Eric Lendrum Ken Paxton (R-Texas), the Attorney General of Texas, has filed a lawsuit against the state’s capital city of Austin on Thursday after the city refused to rescind its mask mandate, as reported by The Hill. The lawsuit names Mayor Steve Adler...
by The Center Square | Mar 16, 2021
by Bethany Blankley The union for a Los Angeles trucking company, Teamsters Local 986, was forced out after nearly 80% of workers signed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to remove it. The National Labor Relations Act governs private sector...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 16, 2021
by Andrew Fillat “Science, at its core, is a social phenomenon.” This observation, from Alondra Nelson, the newly appointed deputy director of President Biden’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), certainly qualifies for a prominent place in...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 16, 2021
by Mary Rose Corkery A Texas man was sentenced to 46 months in federal jail over brandishing an assault rifle at a George Floyd protest, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah announced in a Wednesday press release. Emmanuel...
by Chris Butler | Mar 16, 2021
Henry County Judge Brian Amero on Monday conditionally granted members of a Georgia-based coalition the right to unseal ballots from last November’s presidential election in Fulton County. Members of that group, VOTER GA, may now inspect those ballots for...
