by Hayley Feland | Aug 15, 2021
BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota – Around 75 protesters gathered at the scene of the Bloomington Pride Festival on August 14 at the Bloomington Civic Plaza. The city-sponsored pride festival had been the subject of scrutiny from taxpayers who disagreed with the use...
by The Center Square | Aug 15, 2021
by Jon Styf If Gov. Bill Lee calls for a special session of the Tennessee Legislature, it will cost state taxpayers more than $30,000 per day. Each day the House and Senate meet costs $30,750 in per diem for lawmakers, while each round trip for all lawmakers...
by RealClearWire | Aug 15, 2021
by Andy Puzder What is all this “Biden inflation tax” talk really about? What is the actual effect of inflation on the lives of real people? Well, below is a chart that compares yearly wage and inflation rates for each month from 2017 through July of this year...
by Grant Holcomb | Aug 15, 2021
Florida researchers say the current increase in COVID cases will peak by the end of August. Dr. Edwin Michael and Dr. Tom Unnasch with the University of Southern Florida Public Health developed a mathematical model used to forecast the trajectory of the...
by The Center Square | Aug 15, 2021
by J.D. Davidson Ohio lawmakers return from recess in September with an opportunity to make the state the “most military friendly state in the country,” following the introduction of a bill that requires government agencies to ask about veteran status. The...
by The Center Square | Aug 15, 2021
by Casey Harper A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Friday against a challenge to President Joe Biden’s latest eviction moratorium. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich denied a request from the Alabama and Georgia association of Realtors to overturn an...
by Star News Staff | Aug 15, 2021
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by The Center Square | Aug 15, 2021
by Casey Harper New federal reporting shows illegal immigration has continued to grow worse as the Biden administration increasingly takes heat for the crisis at the southern border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection released new immigration data that shows...
by Eric Burk | Aug 15, 2021
The Portsmouth City Council voted 5-2 against allowing collective bargaining for city employees. In a Tuesday Council meeting, some members said that although they would like to support unionizing efforts, the high cost of implementing collective bargaining...
by Star News Staff | Aug 15, 2021
by Kaylee Greenlee MCALLEN, Texas — Migrants who illegally crossed the border into the U.S. said immigrating legally is only an option for privileged people. “We all don’t have the same capacity or the same opportunity,” a Honduran man who had just crossed into...
by The Center Square | Aug 15, 2021
by Scott McClallen The COVID-19 pandemic hit the Midwest clean energy job market hard, with more than 17,000 workers at one point filing for unemployment. But the industry appears to be rebounding, according to an analysis of employment data released by...
by Star News Staff | Aug 15, 2021
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by Star News Staff | Aug 15, 2021
by Andrew Kerr The National Institutes of Health’s refusal to cooperate with congressional oversight on risky gain of function virus research in China is unacceptable, a group of seven Republican lawmakers wrote in a letter Thursday obtained by the Daily Caller...
by Star News Staff | Aug 15, 2021
by Sebastian Hughes The family jet of climate czar John Kerry has emitted 30 times more carbon so far in 2021 than the average vehicle in a year, Fox News reported. The private jet emitted 138 metric tons of carbon between Jan. 10 and Aug. 6. It took off 20...
by RealClearWire | Aug 15, 2021
by Bradley C. S. Watson America’s Founders understood that political change is inevitable. They thought it must come about through constitutional mechanisms, with the consent of the governed, and must never infringe on the natural rights of citizens....
by The Center Square | Aug 15, 2021
by Elizabeth Troutman Republican gubernatorial candidate Steven Gaynor wants Gov. Doug Ducey to issue an executive order in response to local school mask mandates. Gaynor is a Republican businessman from Paradise Valley who announced his run to replace Ducey in...
by Grant Holcomb | Aug 15, 2021
The United Faculty of Florida is demanding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis impose a mask mandate on all of Florida’s colleges and universities. The basis for the request is rooted in the guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in July,...
by Chris Butler | Aug 15, 2021
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has announced the indictments of 14 defendants on 15 charges of human trafficking, racketeering, criminal street gang activity, charity fraud, and money laundering. This, according to a press release that members of Carr’s...
by Grant Holcomb | Aug 15, 2021
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has backed down from withholding salaries from school board members and superintendents who defy DeSantis’ statewide mask mandate ban. Alachua and Broward school districts are the two remaining holdout districts who are continuing to...
by Chris Butler | Aug 15, 2021
Federal officials have arrested and arraigned a Benton, Tennessee woman and charged her with wire fraud, money laundering, and operating an unlicensed money transmittal business, commonly known as a “money mule” operation. This, according to a press release...