by Eric Burk | Feb 22, 2022
The House and Senate money committees presented their biennial budget proposals on Sunday afternoon in preparation for passage later this week. Both the Senate Finance Committee and the House Appropriations Committee included more than $2 billion in additional...
by Eric Burk | Feb 22, 2022
A Wason Center/Christopher Newport University Poll found Governor Glenn Youngkin’s current job approval trailing slightly, with 41 percent approval and 43 percent disapproval. Forty-five percent of voters polled said Virginia is heading in the right...
by Chris Butler | Feb 22, 2022
Matt Richards, running to replace Representative Jody Hice (R-GA-10) in the U.S. House of Representatives, said Monday that his campaign has come to an end. Richards, on Facebook, said the best candidate to replace Hice in the 10th Congressional District is fellow...
by Chris Butler | Feb 22, 2022
Anderson County officials have indicted a former school office assistant for allegedly stealing more than $20,000 from a fund set up to help needy students. This, according to a report that Tennessee Comptrollers published late last week. The indicted woman,...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Feb 22, 2022
Former Tennessee Speaker of the House Beth Harwell may be nearing a decision on whether to run for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional district seat. Speaker Harwell told The Tennessee Star that she’s still considering whether to run. “I’m in the...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 22, 2022
The two oral antiviral therapeutics developed by pharmaceutical companies Merck and Pfizer to treat mild to moderate cases of COVID-19 are readily available to patients in Tennessee as a part of an increased bi-weekly allocation program. “This increase in allocations...
by Cooper Moran | Feb 22, 2022
Two Florida business owners were indicted on charges related to a fraud scheme that allowed them to collect more than $12 million. Matthew Pardi and Ashley Lynn Hars allegedly created a series of fake moving companies, often stealing the identity of real...
by Star News Staff | Feb 22, 2022
by Andrew Trunsky Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat from Hawaii who ran for president in 2020 and has been critical of President Joe Biden, will headline a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), according to the event’s website....
by The Center Square | Feb 22, 2022
by Nyamekye Daniel Legislation to legalize horse race betting again has been introduced in the Georgia Legislature. Similar bills have been pushed in Georgia over the past three years after the federal government lifted a federal ban on sports betting outside...
by Star News Staff | Feb 22, 2022
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by Star News Staff | Feb 22, 2022
by Ailan Evans A political action committee is funding a series of trucker protests against COVD-19 restrictions in the U.S., mirroring efforts by Canadian truckers to lift the country’s vaccine mandates and rules. The Great American Patriot Project (GAPP)...
by Star News Staff | Feb 22, 2022
by Logan Dubil The “Class Discussion Guidelines” section of Ana Maria Candela’s “Social Change -Introduction to Sociology” syllabus, which instructs white male students to wait their turn to speak after “non-white...
by The Center Square | Feb 22, 2022
by Bethany Blankley A federal appeals court on Thursday halted a mandate from the Biden administration that required an hourly minimum wage of $15 for outdoor recreation companies operating on public land. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in...
by The Center Square | Feb 22, 2022
by Casey Harper A growing number of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck despite increasing wages, a newly released report found. PYMNTS and Lending Club released the report, which says that 61% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, an increase of...
by Star News Staff | Feb 22, 2022
by Eric Lendrum As backlash grows against so-called “diversity” programs in public schools, some districts throughout the country have been canceling plans to implement such programs. According to ABC News, one such program was in Colorado Springs School...
