by The Center Square | Mar 19, 2021
by Nyamekye Daniel The Georgia Senate has approved a bill that collectively would cut income taxes for individuals by more than $600 million over the next five years. House Bill 593, dubbed the Tax Relief Act of 2021, raises the standard deduction on state...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 19, 2021
by Victor Davis Hanson The U.S. military has now turned its wrath inward on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. The new secretary of defense relayed his “revulsion” for Carlson’s questioning the role of women in combat—a position that had been the military’s...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 19, 2021
by Catherine Smith Democrats blocked a bill sponsored by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), which would require the Department of Homeland Security to test all migrants crossing illegally into the country for COVID-19, Breitbart reports. Republicans put...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 19, 2021
by Debra Heine During a press conference in Palm Harbor, Florida on Wednesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that his administration is banning “Critical Race Theory” from being taught in Florida schools. The governor made the announcement while describing a new...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 19, 2021
by Thomas Catenacci The number of Americans filing new unemployment claims increased to 770,000 last week as the economy continued to suffer the effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to the Department of Labor. The Bureau of Labor and...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Mar 19, 2021
After a damning New York Times report in which a Virginia Tech virologist said that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) six-foot social distancing guidelines appeared to be pulled out of “thin air,” one Michigan county is...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 19, 2021
by Mary Margaret Olohan A gay Milwaukee judge arrested on child pornography charges formerly served as the president of a Drag Queen Story Hour club. Police arrested 38-year-old Brett Blomme Tuesday and held him overnight in Dane County Jail, according to the...
by RealClearWire | Mar 19, 2021
by Harold Furchtgott-Roth and Kirk R. Arner On the campaign trail, the Biden campaign voiced its support for network neutrality—“net neutrality” for short. The topic has resurfaced in recent weeks and months thanks to a few key events. These include the...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 19, 2021
by Thomas Catenacci Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation Wednesday that would targeting companies who pay executives 50 times more than their median worker. The legislation, titled the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act, aims to combat corporate greed and...
by Bethany Bowman | Mar 19, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tennessee- Like me, Amanda Cooksey was not raised on country music. Cooksey started playing piano at the early age of six and began learning classical music. Later on, she took voice lessons and started singing in church in middle school. However,...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 19, 2021
by Nicole Silverio Dozens of GOP senators alleged in a Wednesday letter that President Joe Biden’s freeze on border wall construction is a violation of federal law. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, joined by 39 GOP senators, wrote a letter to the Government...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 19, 2021
by Andrew Trunsky Backers of the recall effort against California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that they submitted 2,117,730 signatures by Wednesday’s deadline, a number that will likely far exceed the required threshold even if a fraction prove to be invalid. Newsom...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Mar 19, 2021
by Chuck Ross The Chinese government maintained tight control of a World Health Organization investigation in Wuhan into the origins of the coronavirus, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, which said that Beijing was granted veto power over...
by The Center Square | Mar 19, 2021
by Nyamekye Daniel Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is among 21 state attorneys general calling on the U.S. Department of Treasury to secure states’ rights to implement tax policies under the American Rescue Plan Act. The attorneys general sent a...
by Chris Butler | Mar 19, 2021
A former mayoral candidate for the city of Conyers allegedly concocted a scheme to use a company she started to steal more than $323,000 from the federal Paycheck Protection Program. Officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Mar 19, 2021
Earlier this week, the attorney for Derek Chauvin requested that the ex-Minneapolis Police officer’s trial be moved from Hennepin County due to the risk of a prejudiced jury. “You have elected officials — the governor, the mayor — making incredibly...
by The Center Square | Mar 19, 2021
by Nyamekye Daniel A bill that would extend the length of time Georgia businesses are protected from certain COVID-19-related lawsuits cleared the Senate on Wednesday. The Senate voted, 36-17, in favor of House Bill 112, which extends the applicability of the...
by Chris Butler | Mar 19, 2021
Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R-Cumming) this week praised a deal involving a Georgia electric cooperative and a Tennessee-based solar power company, the latter of which has a history of alleged ethics violations. This, according to a press release that...
