by Grant Holcomb | Jan 8, 2022 | Battleground States, Florida, The South
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried (D) announced on Twitter that her political committee for governor now accepts cryptocurrency as a contribution to the campaign. Fried made the announcement by a video posted to social media. The financial system...
by Hayley Feland | Jan 8, 2022 | Battleground States, Minnesota, The Upper-Midwest
The Hennepin County Chiefs of Police Association (HCCPA) as well as a group of mayors within the county wrote letters to the Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman asking for accountability and more prosecution of criminals. The HCCPA wrote it believes law...
by Chris Butler | Jan 8, 2022 | Battleground States, Georgia, News, The South
Staff for Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and the Atlanta Police Department (APD) accused Buckhead City Committee leader Bill White of misinforming the public about alleged corruption and mismanagement practices within their agencies. White told The Georgia Star...
by Hayley Feland | Jan 8, 2022 | Arizona, Battleground States, The Upper-Midwest, The West, Wisconsin
Rep. Thomas Tiffany (R-WI-07) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI-08) joined Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ-08) in demanding answers from the Biden administration regarding the use of COVID funds to house illegal immigrants. Tiffany said, “Reports show that Biden...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 8, 2022 | Battleground States, Michigan, The Upper-Midwest
Numerous Michigan lawmakers voiced their support for in-person learning, following school districts across the state moving to virtual learning. The Republican legislators pointed to the harmful social impacts and decreased academic scores for children in the...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jan 8, 2022 | Battleground States, Ohio, The Midwest
Amid its deployment to assist healthcare professionals during a surge of COVID-19 cases in Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine (R) says he’s not happy with the vaccination numbers among the state’s National Guard. “This is a high-risk operation, you need to be...
by Eric Burk | Jan 8, 2022 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin announced that former Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James is his pick for Secretary of the Commonwealth. James has experience in the administrations of both Bushes as well as Reagan. She also served as Former Governor...
by Star News Staff | Jan 8, 2022 | Commentary, News
by Thaddeus G. McCotter In 2001, I served in the Michigan State Senate. One morning our then-governor, John Engler, met with our Republican caucus to promote his idea of consolidating several state entities within a single department by executive order....
by RealClearWire | Jan 8, 2022 | Commentary, News
by Kalev Leetaru Since March 20, 2020, CNN has displayed a live COVID-19 dashboard in the upper-right of its daily news programming tracking the latest pandemic numbers, including infection and death counts, as seen in the image below. The timeline below...
by Star News Staff | Jan 8, 2022 | National, News
- – – Photo “Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0.
by The Center Square | Jan 8, 2022 | National, News
by Mary Stroka Projects in the rural communities of Clinton, Hampton, Keokuk, Lake City, Maquoketa, Red Oak and Stanton will all together receive $250,000 in Strengthening Communities grants, the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs announced Thursday. The Iowa...
by The Center Square | Jan 8, 2022 | National, News
by Casey Harper The majority of Americans support Congressional efforts to block President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates for large businesses ahead of a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on that very issue, according to a new poll. Convention of States Action, along...
by RealClearWire | Jan 8, 2022 | Commentary, News
by Kevin Vallier The Republican Party is divided. An older generation supports limited government. A younger generation wants to use a large government to pursue unapologetically conservative ends. Less than a decade ago, the Republican Party seemed wholly...
by Star News Staff | Jan 8, 2022 | National, News
by Ben Boychuk More than three-quarters of likely voters believe the United States is “in a state of decay,” according to a new poll by the Trafalgar Group for Convention of States Action, a grassroots organization aimed at convening a convention to amend the...
by Star News Staff | Jan 8, 2022 | National, News
by Ailan Evans Many hospitals are not complying with laws requiring them to make their healthcare prices publicly available, according to multiple reports, and the Biden administration has so far refrained from issuing penalties. The Hospital Price Transparency...
by Star News Staff | Jan 8, 2022 | National, News
by Star News Staff | Jan 8, 2022 | National, News
by Harry Wilmerding The U.S. economy recorded an increase of 199,000 jobs in December and the unemployment dipped to 3.9%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced Friday. Total non-farm payroll employment increased by 199,000 in...
by The Center Square | Jan 8, 2022 | National, News
by Joe Mueller After four resignations, a death and an expulsion, the seats of six members of Missouri’s House of Representatives – all Republicans – are vacant. About 236,000 Missourians live in the six districts, according to the 2020 U.S. Census, or 4% of...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jan 8, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South
The cause of a New Years Eve fire that burned down a Knoxville Planned Parenthood was arson, according to the Knoxville Fire Department (KFD) and federal investigators. Knoxville Fire Department investigators, along with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol,...
by Chris Butler | Jan 8, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South
Members of the University of Memphis’ Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter spoke out Friday against their school’s intentions to use classrooms as pulpits that promote the tenets of social justice. Three University of Memphis TPUSA students declared their...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jan 8, 2022 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
Days after blaming Virginia motorists for a more than 24 hour pileup on I-95 in the northern part of the state, Gov. Ralph Northam (D) now wants Virginians to thank the state government for the pleasure. “I hate to vent on you right now, Matt, but I am...
