by The Center Square | Sep 9, 2021
by Casey Harper Federal unemployment benefits ended over the holiday weekend, raising questions about how the payments’ expiration will affect the job market and whether Congress will renew the benefits. Congress passed the $300 weekly unemployment payments as...
by Hayley Feland | Sep 9, 2021
Former Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka (R-East Gull Lake) announced his gubernatorial bid on Wednesday morning. Gazelka stepped down from his position as majority leader last week, as a precursor to his campaign for governor. It’s time for a new...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Sep 9, 2021
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Wednesday released new COVID-19 guidelines for students in public schools. The guidelines are not mandatory, and schools may choose whether to follow them. According to the new guidelines, fully...
by Hayley Feland | Sep 9, 2021
Minnesota Representative Jim Hagedorn (R-01-MN) is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee. The announcement comes after Hagedorn’s wife, Jennifer Carnahan, stepped down as the chair of the Minnesota GOP following allegations of harassment,...
by Star News Staff | Sep 9, 2021
by J.D. Davidson Tax credits pulled a quarter million Ohioans out of poverty over the course of a year in 2018, according to a Columbus-based policy analysis group’s study. Scioto Analysis called its study, which was released Tuesday and based on 2018 American...
by Brian Ball | Sep 9, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio – U.S. Senate contender Jane Timken has formally signed onto efforts in support of a constitutional amendment to keep the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court at nine as the political left again attempts to expand the court’s...
by Casey Owens | Sep 9, 2021
Surrounded by law enforcement officials and other members of the Legislature on Tuesday, Governor DeSantis announced the proposal of three new initiatives designed to recruit and retain law enforcement officers in Florida. The three proposed initiatives...
by Rachel Alexander | Sep 9, 2021
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich issued a legal opinion on Tuesday stating that the city of Tucson’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for city employees violates S.B. 1824 (soon to be A.R.S. 36-681) and Gov. Doug Ducey’s Executive Order 2021-18 prohibiting local...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Sep 9, 2021
A law mandating the COVID-19 vaccine among Tucson city employees is illegal, according to Arizona’s attorney general. “Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced that his office (AGO) determined the City of Tucson’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public...
by Star News Staff | Sep 9, 2021
by Scott McClallen In 2018, Michigan voters were fed up with in-power politicians drawing their own districts to protect incumbents. As a result, 61% of voters in the state approved a ballot proposal that established an independent citizen’s redistricting...
by Grant Holcomb | Sep 9, 2021
As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is appealing a ruling over the state’s mask mandate ban, three school districts are directly challenging the state’s rule by filing a challenge with the Florida Department of Administrative Hearings (DOAH). Attorneys for the...
by Chris Butler | Sep 9, 2021
Fulton County election officials mismanaged money, mismanaged documents, and failed to comply with various grant requirements, according to a recent audit. The Georgia Star News requested a copy of the audit straight from county officials. The communications...
by Star News Staff | Sep 9, 2021
Photo “Larry Elder” by Kate Cagle.
by Grant Holcomb | Sep 9, 2021
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dispelled speculation and rumors around his prospects of being a 2024 Republican presidential candidate. DeSantis was asked about if he and former President Donald J. Trump would run for president while visiting a monoclonal treatment...
by Zachery Schmidt | Sep 9, 2021
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr along with 14 other state attorneys general filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court in support of allowing a Virginia church to determine who is a minister “under its own doctrine.” “This is another example of the...
by Eric Burk | Sep 9, 2021
The Robert E. Lee statue that towered over Richmond for more than a century is on its way to storage. A crowd of a few hundred people peered through tree branches trying to watch from the public viewing site, and cheered as the monument was lifted off its...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Sep 9, 2021
The name of the Democrat mayor of Dayton, also a gubernatorial candidate, was included in recently released documents from a 2013-2014 FBI investigation which resulted in four people going to jail. Nan Whaley is the mayor of Dayton and a candidate for the...
by Bradley Vasoli | Sep 9, 2021
The Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee voted on Tuesday evening to urge the Metropolitan Public Health Department’s (MPHD) Chief Medical Director Gill Wright to reinstate a citywide mask mandate for public indoor spaces. ...
