Calls to Fire Glen Ellyn School District 41 Teacher in Illinois After She ‘Shows Off Book Collection She Uses to Indoctrinate 3rd Grade Students’

by Star News Staff | Sep 4, 2021

  Calls to fire Glen Ellyn teacher Lauren Crowe were spreading across social media Thursday night after the D41 educator shared a video on Tik Tok promoting books highlighting LGBTQ+  activism to her grammar school students. Crowe, who teaches third grade at...

City of Tucson Joins Two Lawsuits Against Arizona Legislature over Masks, Vaccines, CRT, Police Review Boards, and a Ballot Audit Committee

by Rachel Alexander | Sep 4, 2021

  The city of Tucson is joining two lawsuits against the Arizona Legislature with amicus curiae briefs. The first is a lawsuit filed on August 12 by the Arizona School Boards Association, the Arizona Education Association and other education organizations and...

Michigan State Senators Introduce Bill to Create Exemptions to College Vaccine Mandates

by Bradley Vasoli | Sep 4, 2021

  State Senators Kim LaSata (R-MI-Coloma) and Jim Runestad (R-MI-White Lake) introduced legislation on Wednesday that would allow students in Michigan’s colleges and universities the right to opt out of vaccine mandates imposed by those institutions. The bill...

Georgia Democrats Warn Raphael Warnock Is Vulnerable

by Chris Butler | Sep 4, 2021

  Members of the Georgia Democratic Party sent out a series of fundraising emails this week warning that U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) could lose reelection next year. “The analysts at CNN have put together a list of which Senate seats they believe are most...

State Sen. Newman Announces Resignation from Virginia Redistricting Commission the Day After Commission Sees First Partial Map Drafts

by Eric Burk | Sep 4, 2021

  Another Republican member is resigning from the Virginia Redistricting Commission. On Friday, State Senator Stephen Newman (R-Bedford) announced his resignation; the commission will likely appoint a replacement from a list already put forward by Senate Minority...

U.S. Rep. Austin Scott Says Hundreds of Afghan SIVs Who Trained in His Georgia District Can’t Get Through Taliban Checkpoint

by Chris Butler | Sep 4, 2021

  U.S. Representative Austin Scott (R-GA-08) said this week that hundreds of Afghans with Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) connected to his district were left behind in Afghanistan. This, Scott said, after those SIVs waited for days at the gates to the Kabul...

Florida Gov. DeSantis Says Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Has Decreased COVID-19 Hospitalizations

by Casey Owens | Sep 4, 2021

  Governor DeSantis announced Thursday that the 21 monoclonal antibody treatment centers he issued last month have resulted in a decrease in the number of hospitalizations in Florida that surged due to the COVID-19 delta variant. Data from the Florida Hospital...

Middle Tennessee State University Nursing Student Who Declined COVID-19 Vaccine Says She Will Push Back Against Unlawful Mandates

by Chris Butler | Sep 4, 2021

  The Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) nursing student who said police officers forced her from class because she refused the COVID-19 vaccine said she will oppose a school policy that defies her beliefs and her legal rights. That student, Avery Garfield,...