by Bradley Vasoli | Jan 3, 2022
Pennsylvania already exempts many medical supplies from its sales tax, but not COVID tests, a discrepancy legislation by Sen. Mario Scavello (R-East Stroudsburg) would eliminate. Scavello’s bill would except rapid at-home COVID-19 antigen tests from the...
by Eric Burk | Jan 3, 2022
Senator Joe Morrissey (D-Richmond) is set to be one of the most important legislators in the 2022 General Assembly session. The Virginia Senate has 21 Democrats and 19 Republicans, meaning that with just one Democratic senator swinging on a vote, Lieutenant...
by Rachel Alexander | Jan 3, 2022
Josh Stanwitz, the National Grassroots Liaison at Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) told The Arizona Sun Times that the VA began the “Referral Coordination Initiative” in late 2019 to return veterans to its medical facilities. The VA Mission Act (VAMA),...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 3, 2022
U.S. Senate candidate JD Vance slammed President Joe Biden for hurting the U.S. Marines with a vaccine mandate for members of the military. Vance, who served as a Marine during the Iraq War, has remained an outspoken critic of “wokeness” within the...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 3, 2022
Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) on Thursday introduced a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) against President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. If fully enacted, the resolution...
by Grant Holcomb | Jan 3, 2022
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now advising people to avoid going on cruises or cruise ships even if they have received COVID shots. The federal agency made the new recommendations after a recent spike in COVID cases aboard cruise...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 3, 2022
Penn State University (PSU) on Thursday announced that all students and staff members will return to campus and begin the semester on time. Citing mitigation measures that are in currently place, Penn State President Eric Barron pledged to continue in-person...
by Hayley Feland | Jan 3, 2022
The processing for recovered carjacked vehicles is backed up for six to eight weeks, some officers with the Minneapolis Police Department have said. Carjackings are happening across the Twin Cities, spilling out into the suburbs. In Golden Valley, Minnesota,...
by Chris Butler | Jan 3, 2022
U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) said late last month that he wonders whether certain aspects of inflation haven’t happened by design, as a means of pushing the United States closer to socialism. Burchett said this on the talk show, Over-Caffeinated....
by Morgan Nicole Veysey | Jan 3, 2022
A new law allowing teachers to discipline students in school is set to take effect as students return to class in the new year. The bill was originally introduced in December of 2020 and was passed in April of 2021; sponsors for the bill were Representative...
by Chris Butler | Jan 3, 2022
The Virginia-based Campus Reform late last week called out the Atlanta-based Georgia State University (GSU) for using bias reporting tools that enable students, faculty, and staff to report on one another for alleged acts of discrimination. Campus Reform,...
by Morgan Nicole Veysey | Jan 3, 2022
Tennessee Representative Bruce Griffey (R-District 75) introduced a new bill aimed to protect election safety in Tennessee by eliminating the use of ballot-marking voting machines, and instead, requiring voters to use “hand-marked paper ballots.”...
by The Center Square | Jan 3, 2022
by Bethany Blankley U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers apprehended more people in November than October and confiscated a record amount of drugs last month, according to its latest operational report. In November at the southern border, encounters with...
by The Center Square | Jan 3, 2022
by Jon Styf As Tennessee officials get closer to presenting a new state funding proposal for K-12 public education, at least one state senator is concerned about the costs of record-keeping in the new plan. “The way the bill is going to read, the state is going...
by Morgan Nicole Veysey | Jan 3, 2022
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) announced this week that an arrest was made in a vulnerable adult abuse case. The TBI had been investigating Memphis resident Terence Gray since November 12 after receiving tips alleging potential wrongdoing from the...
