by Casey Owens | Jun 7, 2021
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed three bills (HB 429, HB 435,SB 922) in Ponte Vedra Beach on Friday to assist veterans and military families on issues related to education and employment. According to the Governor’s office press release, the new laws...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Jun 7, 2021
by David Catron It was hardly surprising when President Biden used his speech on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre to exacerbate racial tensions by shamelessly revising the history of black progress during the past century. Such demagoguery has long...
by Star News Staff | Jun 7, 2021
by Ben Zeisloft Facebook gave Georgia State University $75,000 to create a narrative film experience about racism. Georgia State University’s School of Public Health received the grant from Facebook Reality Labs — the technology company’s virtual reality...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Jun 7, 2021
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by The Center Square | Jun 7, 2021
by Ted O’Neil Americans in the first quarter of 2021 continued their 2020 pattern of moving from expensive, densely populated areas to warmer, more tax-affordable states, according to a new study from Updater Technologies. Updater Technologies is an...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Jun 7, 2021
by Eric Lendrum On Wednesday, a Utah school board member was arrested on charges of using social media to solicit child pornography from students, the Daily Caller reports. The suspect is 29-year-old Joel-Lehi Organista, who had recently been elected to the...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Jun 7, 2021
by Catherine Smith At least 117 nurses are suing their employer, Houston Methodist Hospital, in Texas’ largest city, over its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for workers, claiming they are being forced to be “human guinea pigs,” Fox News reported. Jennifer...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Jun 7, 2021
by Eric Lendrum After a lengthy court battle, the government of the state of California backed down in its efforts to enforce coronavirus restrictions on a church that continued hosting in-person worship services, and has now agreed in a settlement to pay the...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Jun 7, 2021
by Thomas Catenacci Microsoft’s search engine Bing appeared to censor images of the protester who stood in front of a Chinese tank during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. A Bing Images search of “tank man” yielded no results and a prompt for the user to...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Jun 7, 2021
by Mary Margaret Olohan A spokeswoman for Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt expressed support Friday for former University of Oklahoma volleyball player Kylee McLaughlin, who has accused the university of violating her First Amendment rights by excluding her...
by Florida Capital Star Staff | Jun 7, 2021
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by Florida Capital Star Staff | Jun 7, 2021
by Angela Morabito Several American researchers have worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance on coronavirus-related research, including gain of function research, dating back more than a decade, and emails reveal that several...
by RealClearWire | Jun 7, 2021
by Ken Cuccinelli II and Dominic Rapini For as long as politicians have been passing legislation, there have been measurable consequences to that legislation – both intentional and unintentional. Usually, the final impact is not known for years after a law is...
by RealClearWire | Jun 7, 2021
by William Mattox Throughout America, a very important – and highly racialized – conversation is taking place about overcoming injustice. Here in Florida, that conversation has often gone in a markedly different and very promising direction. And schoolchildren...
by Chris Butler | Jun 7, 2021
Buckhead, where residents are already trying to formally break away from the City of Atlanta so they can address an out-of-control crime wave using their own resources, had another violent weekend, including a murder. According to the Atlanta Police...
by Casey Owens | Jun 7, 2021
A parental retention request provision of the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act that was signed into law Tuesday by Governor Ron DeSantis allows public-school parents to request that their children be held-back for the 2021-2022 school year. The provision...
by Casey Owens | Jun 7, 2021
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed $2 million program last week intended to help low-income girls and young women have more access to long-acting reversible contraception or LARCs, and was backed by Senate President Wilton Simpson (R). According to The News...
by The Center Square | Jun 7, 2021
by Scott McClallen Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Thursday the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) is spending taxpayer money on private business Mission Design and Automation in Holland Charter Township. Mission will house new large-scale...
by Hayley Feland | Jun 7, 2021
Activists from out of state will be coming to Minnesota to protest the Line 3 pipeline. On a Facebook post from Minnesotans for Line 3, they write that “Minnesota will soon be hosting some visitors in early June, including Chris Balch from New Hampshire.” ...
by The Center Square | Jun 7, 2021
by J.D. Davidson What some are calling one of the most significant pieces of higher education reform in years in Ohio is also drawing opposition from state colleges and universities. The Senate Workforce and Higher Education Committee held its fourth hearing...
by The Center Square | Jun 7, 2021
by Tyler Arnold The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles is gradually expanding its appointment opportunities this month and next month now that most of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions have come to an end. Starting June 1, the DMV opened 184,000 additional...
