by Star News Staff | Jan 11, 2022
by Kyle Hooten In 1995, Minneapolis saw a record-setting 97 homicides. Operating by the strict definition of a homicide as an event where one person intentionally kills another, there were 97 homicides in the city last year. The final homicide of 2021 occurred...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 11, 2022
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA-23) on Monday endorsed congressional candidate Juan Ciscomani in the race to represent Arizona’s new 6th Congressional District. Ciscomani, an advisor to Governor Doug Ducey on the Arizona-Mexico Commission, is...
by Star News Staff | Jan 11, 2022
by Harry Wilmerding The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to crack down on private companies, forcing them to disclose financial and operation statements more frequently, The Wall Street Journal reported. Regulators have grown more concerned over...
by Casey Owens | Jan 11, 2022
The Charlie Crist campaign for Governor reported $670,000 raised in December to round out 2021 and make his starting cash on hand for 2022, $3.8 million. December fundraising numbers for Crist’s campaign were initially reported by Florida Politics on...
by The Center Square | Jan 11, 2022
by Nyamekye Daniel As lawmakers convene in Atlanta on Monday for the start of a new legislative session, Gov. Brian Kemp wants to give state employees $5,000 raises and increase their benefits. Two budgets are passed through the General Assembly every...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jan 11, 2022
A bill introduced in late December by a member of Tennessee’s House of Representatives would mandate that only paper ballots can be used for voting. House Bill 1662 would mandate. “the use of paper ballots instead of voting machines, and would...
by Morgan Nicole Veysey | Jan 11, 2022
Vanderbilt University announced last week that the CDC awarded the school $10.7 million in grants towards studying the effects of the COVID vaccine. The money will boost the IVY Research Network, which was originally created in 2019 to study the flu...
by Morgan Nicole Veysey | Jan 11, 2022
Nashville Mayor John Cooper held a live-streamed press conference on Monday to outline Metro’s latest COVID response. Cooper, Dr. Alex Jahangir, chair of Metro’s COVID taskforce; Dr. Gill Wright, who directs Nashville’s public health...
by Star News Staff | Jan 11, 2022
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by Star News Staff | Jan 11, 2022
by Author The majority of Americans believe members of Congress should be banned from trading stocks while in office, according to a new poll. Among a sample of Americans likely to vote in general elections, 76% believed lawmakers should not be allowed to trade...
by Star News Staff | Jan 11, 2022
by Eric Lendrum The controversial new District Attorney for Manhattan, New York City has ordered his prosecutors to stop seeking harsh sentences against murderers and terrorists, including life sentences without the possibility of parole. The Washington Free...
by The Center Square | Jan 11, 2022
by Scott McClallen Michigan has collected about $271 million in legal, adult-use marijuana tax revenue since 2019, according to a new report from the Marijuana Policy Project that analyzed tax revenue in states with adult-use cannabis since 2014. In March 2021,...
by The Center Square | Jan 11, 2022
by Evan Stambaugh The Minnesota Medical Association (MMA) has announced its support for renewed mask mandates in the Twin Cities. In a statement released Thursday, the MMA said it “fully supports the decisions by Minneapolis and St. Paul to re-institute...
by Star News Staff | Jan 11, 2022
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by Star News Staff | Jan 11, 2022
by Antoinette Aho Erec Smith is an associate professor of Rhetoric and Composition at York College of Pennsylvania. After experiencing cancel culture 2019, he has since become an advocate for viewpoint diversity, especially in the Black community. In a June...
by Star News Staff | Jan 11, 2022
by Debra Heine The liberal justices on the Supreme Court demonstrated a stunningly weak grasp of basic facts concerning the COVID-19 pandemic Friday, as they defended the Biden regime’s policies during oral arguments over vaccine mandates in the workplace. The...
by Star News Staff | Jan 11, 2022
by No Labels The Big Insight:Â Regulatory changes could help alleviate a trucker shortage making our supply chain problems worse. There are many causes of the ongoing supply chain slowdowns impacting the U.S., but one of them is a shortage of truckers, who move...
by Star News Staff | Jan 11, 2022
by Andrew Trunsky Less than 40% of Americans view the coronavirus as a top-five issue to address in 2022, a new poll shows. The Associated Press-NORC survey found that just 33% of Americans labeled virus concerns as a top issue, down 16 points from a year ago....
by The Center Square | Jan 11, 2022
by Mary Stroka The state of Iowa on Friday sued the city of Sioux City regarding discharge of wastewater. In the lawsuit, the state asks the Iowa District Court for Woodbury County to make the city pay up to $5,000 per day of violations of state wastewater...
by The Center Square | Jan 11, 2022
by Mary Stroka Iowa Senate leaders have decided press will no longer have seating at the press bench at the front of the Senate chamber floor. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, most state legislatures allowed access to the chamber floors, according to the...
