by Star News Staff | Jan 4, 2022
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by The Center Square | Jan 4, 2022
by Mary Stroka Minnesota’s minimum wages increase 2.5% Jan. 1. The increases are an adjustment for inflation. Outside of Minneapolis and St. Paul, large employers are those that have annual gross revenues of at least $500,000. Their new minimum wages will be...
by The Center Square | Jan 4, 2022
by J.D. Davidson Small businesses across Ohio find themselves in the middle of what one of the leading advocates in the nation calls a perfect storm of issues, causing continued concern and struggles. A new survey from the Ohio branch of the National Federation...
by Grant Holcomb | Jan 4, 2022
Last week, the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) announced Florida’s juvenile arrests reached a 46-year low. Specifically, the arrest rate is down 51 percent in the last five years. The DJJ praised the findings and the work of Florida Gov. Ron...
by The Center Square | Jan 4, 2022
by Scott McClallen Twenty-two months into the COVID-19 pandemic, some schools and colleges say they will shift to virtual learning amid an increase in COVID-19 cases, which will affect more than 100,000 students. Detroit Free Press reporter Sally Tato tweeted a...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 4, 2022
A federal judge in Louisiana granted a temporary injunction that will protect members of the Head Start early education program from a mandate that would force masking and vaccinations for certain individuals. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty ruled the Biden...
by Morgan Nicole Veysey | Jan 4, 2022
Nashville Mayor John Cooper tweeted Monday that COVID cases were on the rise in the city. Cooper said the average positive test rate was at 34.4 percent, up higher from the previous week’s 20.6 percent. He added the 10,186 reported cases were double than...
by Star News Staff | Jan 4, 2022
by Wyatt Eichholz Data collected by the US Department of Education show that during 2021, colleges and universities amassed a total of $1.3 billion in contracts and gifts from foreign sources, including $337 million from foreign governments. The U.S. Department...
by Star News Staff | Jan 4, 2022
by Antoinette Aho Campus Reform is monitoring the colleges and universities starting the 2022 academic year online. These institutions are imposing the changes due to the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. Seven out of the 10 University of...
by Star News Staff | Jan 4, 2022
by Ailan Evans Scientists believe a meteor exploded early New Year’s Day over Pittsburgh, causing mysterious loud noises and vibrations that shook the city. “The loud explosion heard over SW PA earlier may have been a meteor explosion,” the U.S. National...
by Star News Staff | Jan 4, 2022
by Sean Ross Callaghan Firebrand Tucker Carlson is the poster boy for the radical Right. His fans are far outside the mainstream. They’re the “deplorables”: the alt-right, white nationalists, and so on. Pragmatic politicians should pick positions halfway...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jan 4, 2022
Arlington Public Schools (APS) Monday shared with The Virginia Star its proposed plan to eliminate “implicit bias” among its teachers by eliminating graded homework, homework deadlines and extra credit, along with providing students unlimited...
by Chris Butler | Jan 4, 2022
A spokeswoman for former Republican senator and current Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue said Monday that the candidate wants a Parents’ Bill of Rights. This, after Atlanta Public School (APS) officials announced Saturday that they will operate...
by RealClearWire | Jan 4, 2022
by Kevin Vallier Political polarization in the United States is bad. Americans don’t just dislike the other party; we hate anyone associated with it. We increasingly indulge our worst impulses. We grow ever-more biased against people with different political...
by The Center Square | Jan 4, 2022
by Tyler Arnold Virginia’s state-run COVID-19 vaccination centers will be closed on Monday in response to expected inclement weather caused by a snowstorm affecting parts of the state. None of the state’s Community Vaccination Centers, run by the Virginia...
by The Center Square | Jan 4, 2022
by Elizabeth Troutman Phoenix has the second highest percentage change in high-paying jobs out of a list of large U.S. metros, according to a Stessa report. Phoenix saw a 217.1% increase in six-figure jobs from 2015 to 2020, marking the second-largest...
by The Center Square | Jan 4, 2022
by Brent Addleman Some school districts around Connecticut announced closures to allow students and teachers additional time to recover from COVID-19 as the state is experiencing a rise in cases and quarantines. Stratford Public Schools posted a notice on...
by Star News Staff | Jan 4, 2022
by Harry Wilmerding Facebook suspended the account of Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for 24 hours on Monday, one day after Twitter permanently suspended her account over repeated violations of COVID-19 misinformation policies. Greene posted on...
by Grant Holcomb | Jan 4, 2022
At a press conference on Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) called for more monoclonal treatments to be sent to Florida from the federal government. DeSantis said the vaccine is not preventing COVID transmission like they were marketed to do. The most recent...
