by Peter D'Abrosca | Jan 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Ohio, The Midwest
Ohio U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance spoke with The Ohio Star Monday about anti-white discrimination in monoclonal antibody treatment for patients with COVID-19. “You should not, in this country, have your fortune determined by your skin color,” he...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 18, 2022 | Battleground States, The Great Lakes, Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will rule on a lawsuit against the Madison Metropolitan School District for a policy that does not tell parents if a transgender student chooses to use a different name at school. The suit, brought by the Wisconsin Institute for Law...
by Bradley Vasoli | Jan 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Pennsylvania, The Northeast
Pennsylvania state Reps. Benjamin Sanchez (D-Abington) and Joe Webster (D-Collegeville) are planning to introduce a bill to remove male and female designations from Pennsylvania birth certificates. The two Montgomery-County lawmakers say their proposal would...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jan 18, 2022 | Arizona, Battleground States, The West
An MSNBC guest viciously attacked Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) over her renewed commitment to keeping the Senate filibuster in place, which progressive Democrats say is holding up their agenda. “Look, people like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, these are...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jan 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Michigan, The Great Lakes
The Michigan Democratic Party (MDP) is scrambling to walk back the messaging of a now-deleted post on its Facebook page. “Not sure where this ‘parents-should-control-what-is-taught-in-schools-because-they-are-our-kids’ is originating, but parents do have...
by Eric Burk | Jan 18, 2022 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears took up the gavel to preside over the Senate for the first time on Monday, Martin Luther King Day. Sears is the first Black woman to hold statewide office in Virginia. Senators spent the Monday session with Martin Luther...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Pennsylvania, The Northeast
Sean Parnell, a former candidate for U.S. Senate who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, backed recently-declared candidate Dave McCormick in the same race. McCormick will take on former lieutenant governor contender Jeff Bartos, political...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Jan 18, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South
The congressional redistricting process continues to move forward through the Tennessee General Assembly. The next stop in the state House is the State Government Committee and the next stop in the state Senate is the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both committees...
by Star News Staff | Jan 18, 2022 | Commentary, News
by Jeffrey A. Rendall Last week there was quite a lot of news media chatter about swapping Hillary Clinton for Joe Biden on the 2024 Democrat presidential ticket, a fascinating concept that pundits couldn’t stop talking about. It didn’t receive nearly the...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jan 18, 2022 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
After inaugurated Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) banned schools from establishing mask mandates on his first day as Virginia governor, four major school districts say they won’t abide by his new rule. Executive Order Number Two (2022) and Order of Public Health...
by Eric Burk | Jan 18, 2022 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
Governor Glenn Youngkin used his first State of the Commonwealth address to describe a Virginia in need of reform, with underfunded schools whose leaders are out of touch with parents, rising crime rates, rising cost of living, and a stalled economy. The Monday...
by Chris Butler | Jan 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Georgia, The South
Without citing evidence to back up her claims, the district attorney for Georgia’s Western Judicial Circuit last month compared her constituents in Oconee County to white supremacists. That woman, Deborah Gonzalez, said those Oconee County residents wish to do...
by Grant Holcomb | Jan 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Florida, The South
Florida’s public universities have numerous outgoing board of trustee members and there has not yet been any indication of who will be replacing them. In fact, some board members are serving past their term and have been accused of hiring friends. Ben Wilcox...
by Star News Staff | Jan 18, 2022 | National, News
by Debra Heine The World Health Organization and the European Union regulators are advising against repeated COVID-19 vaccine boosters amid overwhelming data that indicate they are ineffective at stopping the COVID variants. On Tuesday, EU regulators admitted...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Jan 18, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South
Election season is heating up in Tennessee. The midterm congressional elections occur this year and the release of the proposed new maps has led to even more discussion about potential candidates and district races in Tennessee. In addition to satisfying the...
by Star News Staff | Jan 18, 2022 | National, News
by Eric Lendrum On Friday, one day prior to being sworn in as Virginia’s new Attorney General, Jason Miyares (R-Va.) fired 30 employees in the Virginia Attorney General’s office, including the entirety of the Civil Rights Division. As reported by the Daily...
by Star News Staff | Jan 18, 2022 | National, News
by Peter Cordi In 2020, the federal government gave American colleges and universities approximately $14 billion in relief through the CARES Act. As part of the $2.2 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package, the CARES Act allocation mandated that approximately half...
by Cooper Moran | Jan 18, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South
Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) mocked President Joe Biden’s inability to advance key priorities of his administration, awarding him the “lame-duck” title often given to presidents in the final year of their term. In an interview with “Sunday...
by Star News Staff | Jan 18, 2022 | National, News
by Harry Wilmerding Luxury car sales surged in 2021 while mainstream car companies struggled amid global supply chain disruptions and soaring inflation, The Wall Street Journal reported. Luxury car brands, including Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Porsche and BMW, all...
by The Center Square | Jan 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Pennsylvania, The Northeast
by Victor Skinner Pennsylvania student loan borrowers will receive over $70 million in relief as part of a national settlement with Navient, one of the nation’s largest student loan servicers. Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Navient will provide $1.85...
by Star News Staff | Jan 18, 2022 | National, News
by Eric Lendrum Several governors around the country are taking federal funds meant to combat the coronavirus and instead using the money to deal with so-called “global warming.” Breitbart reports that, in addition to federal stimulus funds, such governors are...
