by Star News Staff | Dec 31, 2021
– – – Photo “Betty White” by Angela George. CC BY-SA 3.0.
by Star News Staff | Dec 31, 2021
– – – Photo “John Solomon” and “Just the News App” by John Solomon.
by Chris Butler | Dec 31, 2021
A proposal to more than double Athens-Clarke County commissioners’ salaries from $15,000 per year to $31,000 could discourage good candidates — especially those who are not wealthy — from seeking that office. This, according to County Commissioner Allison...
by Hayley Feland | Dec 31, 2021
Three Wisconsin urgent care clinics within the Advocate Aurora Health network were closed down temporarily due to staffing shortages. A spokesperson for the clinics told The Wisconsin Daily Star that the closures are due to “managing the COVID surge combined...
by Hayley Feland | Dec 31, 2021
The Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association wrote a letter to the Hennepin and Ramsey County attorneys addressing their failure to prosecute some felony crimes. The association wrote that it is “especially concerned” that “prosecutorial policies are failing to...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Dec 31, 2021
The University of Pittsburgh will require all of its students to “shelter-in-place” upon their return for the school’s spring semester as the United States continues to break records for COVID-19 cases. “A University-wide...
by Star News Staff | Dec 31, 2021
by Victor Davis Hanson The last two years have seen an unprecedented escalation in a decades-long war on the American past. But there are lots of logical flaws in attacking prior generations in U.S. history. Critics assume their own judgmental generation is...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Dec 31, 2021
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s office told The Ohio Star Thursday that it will not address concerns about whether the current protocols in place to end the COVID-19 are actually working. The Star asked DeWine’s office if, amid the surge of Omicron...
by Rachel Alexander | Dec 31, 2021
Leading Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake voiced support for putting cameras in schools in order to allow parents to monitor what educators are teaching their children, and Gov. Doug Ducey responded by criticizing the idea. Ducey said during...
by Star News Staff | Dec 31, 2021
- – – Photo “Gov. Whitmer” by Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
by Eric Burk | Dec 31, 2021
The Lee Monument and the other Confederate statues from Richmond’s Monument Avenue will be given to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, which will partner with The Valentine and other Richmond organizations to determine the future of...
by RealClearWire | Dec 31, 2021
by Ross Pomeroy Science communicators once again had their hands full in 2021. Between two and three million research articles were published this year, announcing discoveries from the microscopic to the cosmic and from the (relatively) mundane to the...
by The Center Square | Dec 31, 2021
by Bethany Blankley While gas prices have soared nationwide this year, average prices at the pump have remained among the lowest in Oklahoma and Texas, in part because they are significant oil and gas hubs for the nation. The lowest current average regular gas...
by Star News Staff | Dec 31, 2021
by Lloyd Billingsley The February 17 departure of Rush Limbaugh got the most attention, and deservedly so. To instruct and entertain simultaneously is a tough task, and Limbaugh performed in fine style. There may never be another. That description also applies...
by The Center Square | Dec 31, 2021
by Bethany Blankley Republican U.S. senators are keeping the pressure on the Biden administration over its immigration policies, demanding answers from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on the number of Afghan evacuees in the U.S. and...
by RealClearWire | Dec 31, 2021
by Edward Whitley The first time I caught a plagiarized essay was at the beginning of my career as an English professor over 20 years ago. Two of my students had turned in papers with more than a few suspiciously similar phrases, and a quick Google search...
by The Center Square | Dec 31, 2021
by Bethany Blankley U.S. crude oil production fell by 8% in 2020, the largest annual decrease on record, the U.S. Energy Information Agency reports. This plunge occurred one year after the U.S. reached a record annual average high of 12.2 million barrels a day...
by Star News Staff | Dec 31, 2021
by Harry Wilmerding Many U.S. consumers racked up debt this holiday season, and most of them won’t be able to pay it off immediately, according to a report published Wednesday. Around 36% of consumers went into debt, spending on presents, plane tickets and...
by Cooper Moran | Dec 31, 2021
U.S Representative Mark Green (R-TN-07) on Tuesday called out President Joe Biden for his “counterproductive” vaccine mandates. Green, like many other Republican officials, argued Biden’s mandates are hypocritical, as the commander-in-chief...
by Star News Staff | Dec 31, 2021
by Star News Staff | Dec 31, 2021
by Geoffrey M. Vaughan Our politics is currently overwhelmed with identity. Rights, votes, participation, all understanding of one’s place in the country is said to be based on one’s “identity.” The one identity that people shy away from is that of the American...
