by Eric Burk | Dec 7, 2021 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
Charlottesville’s Lee statue will be given to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center (JSAAHC) to be melted down into bronze ingots and repurposed for the museum’s Swords into Plowshares proposal. In a Monday city council meeting that...
by Neil W. McCabe | Dec 7, 2021 | Battleground States, Ohio, port, The Midwest
An Ohio Republican insider who held senior positions in Donald J. Trump’s 2016 and since then been a consultant for Republican Senate and gubernatorial races told The Ohio Star each of the top four candidates running for the 2022 GOP Senate nomination has...
by Julie Carr | Dec 7, 2021 | Arizona, Election Integrity, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, News, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin
Stephen K. Bannon welcomed Conservative attorney, legal scholar, and professor of law John Eastman on Monday’s War Room: Pandemic to explain his attorney’s letter to Congress citing the illegitimacy of his subpoena regarding the January 6 committee...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Dec 7, 2021 | Battleground States, Florida, The South
A communications consultant for one of Florida’s Democrat candidates for Governor suggested Monday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation should investigate right wingers who criticized her on Twitter. “In the last days, after posting the above,I...
by Star News Staff | Dec 7, 2021 | Commentary, News
by Victor Davis Hanson Most Americans once were mostly in agreement about what happened on December 7, 1941, 80 years ago this year. But not so much now, given either the neglect of America’s past in the schools or woke revisionism at odds with the truth. The...
by Neil W. McCabe | Dec 7, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, News, The South
The former Republican Georgia senator, who lost his January runoff election to Democratic Sen. T. Jonathan Ossoff, announced today he is challenging his friend and former ally Gov. Brian P. Kemp in the party’s May 24 primary. “Look, I like Brian,” said...
by Cooper Moran | Dec 7, 2021 | Battleground States, Georgia, The South
Former President Donald Trump on Monday endorsed former U.S. Senator and Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate David Perdue. Perdue, arguing he is a better contender to defeat Democrat Stacy Abrams, formally launched a primary challenge against Republican...
by Star News Staff | Dec 7, 2021 | Battleground States, Minnesota, The Upper-Midwest
by Evan Stambaugh Alpha News recently sat down with Michele Lentz, president of the Child Protection League, for an in-studio interview. Interviewed by Kyle Hooten, Lentz spoke about the work of the Child Protection League, a nonprofit whose mission is to...
by Hayley Feland | Dec 7, 2021 | Battleground States, Minnesota, The Upper-Midwest
ALBERT LEA, Minnesota – Monday was the scheduled start to the trial against Minnesota restaurant owner, Melissa “Lisa” Hanson, who is charged with nine misdemeanors after she opened her restaurant in violation of Governor Tim Walz’s (D) COVID orders in...
by Star News Staff | Dec 7, 2021 | National, News
by Harry Wilmerding The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) raked in massive profits in 2020, mostly from royalties on branded health insurance policies, not memberships, according to company financial documents. AARP’s 2020 Form 990 shows that the...
by The Center Square | Dec 7, 2021 | National, News
by Victor Skinner A Pennsylvania government watchdog group is highlighting how the incestuous relationship between local government entities and lobbyists is costing taxpayers millions of dollars. The Commonwealth Foundation also is supporting legislation...
by Morgan Nicole Veysey | Dec 7, 2021 | News, port, Tennessee, The South
Knox County is one step closer to a Skilled Trades Academy and Regional Training Center (START). The school is “designed to attract, train, and retain a quality workforce in the construction industry.” “Knox County is committed to creating...
by Star News Staff | Dec 7, 2021 | National, News
by Star News Staff | Dec 7, 2021 | Commentary, News
by Jon Miltimore Following his trip to Rome a few weeks ago for the G-20 summit, President Joe Biden expressed worry that surging energy costs would harm working-class families and urged OPEC and Russia to pump more oil. Some noted this was a strange message to...
by Star News Staff | Dec 7, 2021 | National, News
by Sam Neves A student organization at the College of Wooster is calling for the school to apply affirmative action to its theater productions. The BIPOC Performing Arts Alliance (PAA) has written a list of demands for the university, which according to The...
by The Center Square | Dec 7, 2021 | News, port, Tennessee, The South
by Jon Styf As Tennessee lawmakers continue to examine reforms in the criminal justice system, two recently released reports showed that the state is not collecting the proper data to evaluate the fines and fees collected from its court system. Non-profit...
by Star News Staff | Dec 7, 2021 | National, News
by Kendall Tietz Since the National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent a letter to the White House equating the acts of concerned parents at local school board meetings to “domestic terrorism and hate crimes” and requesting federal intervention, the majority...
by Star News Staff | Dec 7, 2021 | National, News
by Peter D'Abrosca | Dec 7, 2021 | National, News
A Missouri newspaper is standing by its recent reporting on COVID-19 mask mandates after it drew criticism from Gov. Mike Parson (R). “Our story — which included all documents and data supporting it — speaks for itself. We stand behind our...
by Star News Staff | Dec 7, 2021 | National, News
by Eric Burk | Dec 7, 2021 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
Crews have begun work to remove the pedestal that used to hold the Lee statue in Richmond. On Sunday, Governor Ralph Northam announced that the pedestal would be removed to storage in a process lasting through December, and that after the pedestal was removed,...