by Julie Carr | Feb 2, 2022
Live from Music Row Wednesday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed Tennessee State Senator of District 8, Frank...
by Chris Butler | Feb 2, 2022
Tennessee Deputy Attorney General Janet Kleinfelter argued in court last week that reports that a government-hired consultant filed regarding COVID-19 should remain exempt from the public. This, according to a new column that The Tennessee Coalition for Open...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Feb 2, 2022
President Donald J. Trump says he stands by his offered endorsement of Morgan Ortagus and that he didn’t know Robby Starbuck but heard that he voted for Obama. President Donald J. Trump appeared on the Newsmax program Rob Schmitt Tonight on Tuesday. He...
by Star News Staff | Feb 2, 2022
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by Rachel Alexander | Feb 2, 2022
Democrats are suddenly now attacking 11 Republican Arizona electors for choosing Donald Trump to receive Arizona’s electoral votes over a year ago, shortly after the 2020 presidential election. The Democrat-controlled U.S. House committee investigating the...
by Neil W. McCabe | Feb 2, 2022
Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, author of the new book “Red Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win,” told The Star News Network that the leader of Senate Republicans, Kentucky’s Sen. A. Mitchell “Mitch” McConnell, is...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Feb 2, 2022
A Tennessee legislator has filed a bill prohibiting local education associations (LEA) or public charter schools from doing business with entities that perform abortions. This is the latest pro-life bill to be proposed during the current Tennessee General...
by Cooper Moran | Feb 2, 2022
Republicans continue to outpace Democrats in changes to voter registrations, according to information released by the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office. According to the data, in January alone, more than 1,300 individuals in the country switched their...
by Cooper Moran | Feb 2, 2022
Laurie Cardoza-Moore, a member of Tennessee’s Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality commission, argued that states should follow Florida’s approach to Holocaust education. According to Cardoza-Moore, the curriculum supported by Governor Ron...
by Cooper Moran | Feb 2, 2022
Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), in conjunction with Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), asked the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to enhance export controls on a semiconductor producer in China. According to the duo, the producer, Semiconductor Manufacturing...
by Cooper Moran | Feb 2, 2022
Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleeflisch on Monday backed a proposal to divide Wisconsin’s largest school district into multiple, smaller systems. The plan, initiated by State Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills), would require the large...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Feb 2, 2022
A prominent former professor at the University of Michigan (UM) has been accused by eight former students of sexual misconduct, ranging from groping to rape, according to reports. University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald told The Michigan Star that Professor Bruce...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Feb 2, 2022
UPDATE and Editor’s Note from February 5, 2022: Subsequent to the publication of this story, Robby Starbuck contacted The Tennessee Star and stated that he had sent Wilson County Republican Chair Brad Lytle two documents via text message on January 21 he said...
by RealClearWire | Feb 2, 2022
by Susan Crabtree The omicron variant may be nearing its peak in some states, but across the country it’s produced a dizzying array of conflicting signals on whether the nation should remain under a COVID national emergency or move on to an endemic “new...
by Grant Holcomb | Feb 2, 2022
The federal trial has begun for Florida’s election integrity law, signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) last May. Before the law came into effect, it was known by its legislative number, SB 90. After DeSantis signed SB 90, numerous legal challenges were filed...
by Bradley Vasoli | Feb 2, 2022
A report released this week by the Commonwealth Foundation (CF), a Harrisburg-based think tank, underscores the drawbacks of lavish government spending for ordinary Pennsylvanians. Inflation and the economic policies that fuel it have already weighed on the...
by The Center Square | Feb 2, 2022
by Casey Harper President Joe Biden’s commitment to only nominate a a new Supreme Court justice who is a Black female does not have broad support, a newly released poll suggests. The ABC/Ipsos poll found that 76% of surveyed Americans say Biden should consider...
by Star News Staff | Feb 2, 2022
by Thomas Catenacci A large coalition of state financial officers announced their opposition to one of President Joe Biden’s top nominees for the Federal Reserve over her “radical” policy positions. Sarah Bloom Raskin would put U.S. financial and economic...
by Star News Staff | Feb 2, 2022
by Chris Brunet President Joe Biden’s nominee to regulate the banking industry has previously expressed support for economic reparations to black Americans, Fox Business reported Monday. Lisa Cook, a professor of international relations and economics at...
by Star News Staff | Feb 2, 2022
by Harold Hutchison A worker rights group is calling out two powerful teachers unions, claiming that they “hold the education of kids hostage” in a press release. Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTWLDF), told the...
by RealClearWire | Feb 2, 2022
by Paul Sperry The Washington Post has recused its new national editor, Matea Gold, from the news organization’s coverage of the FBI and Justice Department over a personal conflict of interest. A month before Gold was promoted, her husband, Jonathan Lenzner,...