by Chris Butler | Apr 26, 2021
Former U.S. Republican Congressman Doug Collins will not run for governor of Georgia in 2022 and he also will not pursue a U.S. Senate seat that year. Collins tweeted the news Monday. “For those who may wonder, this is goodbye for now but probably not forever,”...
by Neil W. McCabe | Apr 26, 2021
Republicans did not have a great year in 2020, but 2022 could be a much better year than anyone is expecting – especially if they target these three vulnerable Senate Democrats who each won their seats with 50 percent of the vote or less. Democrats...
by Steve Stewart | Apr 26, 2021
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried recently appeared on Facing South Florida, with Jim DeFede and responded to questions related to medical marijuana, Governor DeSantis and her political future. Provided below is a summary of the interview. Jim...
by Casey Owens | Apr 26, 2021
On April 23rd, 2021, the Florida House of Representatives voted 109 to 3 for a bill (HB 7061) that was originally proposed by the Ways and Means Committee on April 18th, to provide multiple sales-tax “holidays” and other tax-related adjustments...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 26, 2021
by Fred Lucas As Democrats push to expand the federal government’s purview over elections, President Joe Biden has named a former Justice Department official to be a White House adviser on voting issues. Biden this week tapped Justin Levitt, a Loyola Law School...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 26, 2021
by Chuck Ross Weeks before Donald Trump took office, Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer issued an ominous warning. “You take on the intelligence community? They have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you,” the New York Democrat said in an...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 26, 2021
by Mckenna Dallmeyer Universities in the United Kingdom have been instructed to pay students thousands of dollars because they had ‘”less valuable” experiences due to the universities’ COVID-19 actions. The Office of the Independent Adjudicator...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 26, 2021
by Chuck Ross President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Justice Department’s civil rights division circulated an essay from self-proclaimed Marxist poet Amiri Baraka defending cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal and referring to police officers as members of the Ku Klux...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 26, 2021
by Brad Polumbo A fight is raging in Congress over proposals to restore the practice of spending “earmarks,” small provisions slipped into spending bills quietly authorizing millions for local projects and special interests. But a new report reminds us that...
by The Center Square | Apr 26, 2021
by Bethany Blankley The U.S. national debt is closer to $123 trillion, more than four times what the Treasury Department is reporting, Chicago-based Truth in Accounting calculates in its new annual analysis of the nation’s finances. The federal government has...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 26, 2021
by Andrew Kerr The Senate Foreign Relations Committee overwhelmingly approved a wide-ranging and bipartisan bill on Wednesday that lays out a unified strategic approach towards the threat China poses to America’s national and economic security. Among the...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 26, 2021
by Thomas Catenacci A Chinese-born chemist who worked for Coca-Cola was found guilty Thursday of multiple spying-related charges including economic espionage and stealing trade secrets. Xiaorong You, a Chinese-born American citizen, stole trade secrets related...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 26, 2021
by Ben Zeisloft A professor at Southern Illinois University received an indictment for concealing his support from the Chinese government. According to a United States Department of Justice press release, Mingqing Xiao — who teaches mathematics at Southern...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 26, 2021
by Andrew Trunsky The Senate confirmed civil rights lawyer Vanita Gupta to be the Associate Attorney General Wednesday. Gupta, who will be the third-ranking official at the Department of Justice, was confirmed 51-49, with Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 26, 2021
by Chuck Ross Apple and several retail trade groups continued lobbying policymakers in the first quarter of this year on a bill to prohibit American firms from using Chinese forced labor, according to disclosures filed with Congress this week. Apple paid Fierce...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Apr 26, 2021
by Grace Bureau Minneapolis is my home. My happiest memories are here. It’s where I learned to ride a bike, had my first date, received my high school diploma. But today, I’m too afraid to even walk in my neighborhood by myself. The ACE Hardware down the...
by Steve Stewart | Apr 26, 2021
The guaranteed income movement – which advocates for providing cash to low-income families with no restrictions on how they can spend it – is coming to Florida. This year the Gainesville City Commission voted to implement a guaranteed income pilot...
