by Eric Burk | Oct 9, 2021
The Virginia Redistricting Commission collapsed Friday afternoon while facing a Sunday deadline to complete final maps to present to the General Assembly. The commission failed to break through partisan deadlocks on which drafts to use as a starting point, the...
by Star News Staff | Oct 9, 2021
by Brent Hamachek Mark Finchem, the State Representative from Arizona who has also received the endorsement of former President Donald Trump in a bid to become that State’s Secretary of State in 2022, has effectively taken his Arizona Ballot Integrity...
by Grant Holcomb | Oct 9, 2021
The state of Florida has officially submitted its education plan to the U.S. Department of Education (U.S. DOE) outlining how the state intends to spend $7 billion in education funding stemming from the American Rescue Plan Act. Approximately $2.3 billion was...
by Cooper Moran | Oct 9, 2021
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) on Thursday pledged to defy an order from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, instructing Ducey to stop using COVID-19 relief to award grants to schools that do not have a mask mandate. Calling the order from the Treasury...
by Chris Butler | Oct 9, 2021
U.S. Representative Lucy McBath (D-GA-06) has filed legislation that would, if enacted into law, require that federal officials publish an annual report about school violence, with a heavy emphasis on racial and economic demographics. To file the bill, McBath...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Oct 9, 2021
The Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office on Thursday identified the second suspect in Monday’s shootout on an Amtrak train that was stopped in Tucson. Dr. Gregory Hess said Darrion Taylor, 26, was the suspect shot and killed by law enforcement after...
by The Center Square | Oct 9, 2021
by Bruce Walker Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s announcement this week that she is reinstating the state’s prevailing wage rules is drawing accusations that the move is nothing more than a sop to the governor’s extensive list of donors affiliated...
by Chris Butler | Oct 9, 2021
Two Williamson County commissioners have announced their choice to replace Brad Fiscus on the Williamson County School Board, and that person is Franklin resident Josh Brown, who also does top-level work for Pfizer. Williamson County District Four Commissioners...
by Chris Butler | Oct 9, 2021
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced this week that Clarence Dean Alford, a former member of the Board of Regents, has pleaded guilty to racketeering. Alford pleaded guilty before Chief Superior Court Judge Robert F. Mumford. This, according to an...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Oct 9, 2021
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, comprised of nine Democrats and one lone Republican, voted in favor this week of a measure that would end the witness signature requirement on absentee ballots. The board is now asking Gov. Ralph Northam (D) for...
by Hayley Feland | Oct 9, 2021
Governor Tim Walz (D) called for COVID vaccine requirements for Minnesota teachers on Tuesday. The governor said there should also be “consistent” COVID mitigation requirements for schools. In a letter Walz wrote to legislators, outlining the issues he would...
by RealClearWire | Oct 9, 2021
by John Wasik When Jeff, a retired marketing consultant from Chicago, was closing on his home sale, he received a new set of instructions at the last minute on where to send several thousand dollars in closing expenses. At first blush, the email looked legit...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Oct 9, 2021
Two business owners based in Florida pleaded guilty this week after their fraudulent scheme to hire illegal workers was uncovered. “According to court documents, Educational World Inc. (Ed World), a visa processing company based in North Point; and Larisa...
by Laura Baigert | Oct 9, 2021
LEBANON, Tennessee – First-term and firebrand congresswoman from Georgia’s 14th District was the featured speaker at the Wilson County Republican Party Trump Day Dinner held Thursday at the Farm Bureau Exposition Center on Baddour Parkway in Lebanon with nearly...
