by Julie Carr | Apr 18, 2022 | National, News, Politics, TSNN Reports
Neil W. McCabe, the national political editor of The Star News Network, interviewed veteran Washington journalist John Solomon, who is now the founder and editor-in-chief of Just the News about his coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop. Solomon said that more than 50...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Apr 18, 2022 | Battleground State Report, Battleground States, Georgia, The South
A federal judge has ruled that Stacey Abrams cannot yet collect unlimited donations in the Georgia governor’s race. U.S. District Court Judge Mark Cohen from the Northern District of Georgia ruled that Abrams cannot collect unlimited donations as allowed under...
by Bradley Vasoli | Apr 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Connecticut, The Northeast
The Yankee Institute (YI), Connecticut’s premier economically conservative think tank, is exhorting state lawmakers to reject contracts that the Lamont administration negotiated with the State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC). YI began warning against the...
by Bradley Vasoli | Apr 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Pennsylvania, The Northeast
New polling shows Mehmet Oz pulling slightly ahead of David McCormick in the Republican Pennsylvania Senate primary for the first time since the latter announced his run in January. The latest Franklin & Marshall College (F&M) Poll, conducted from March 30 to...
by Star News Staff | Apr 18, 2022 | Commentary, News
by George Neumayr Barack Obama holds court these days as a great authority on the preservation of a civilized democracy. He says that nothing worries him more than “disinformation.” Never mind that he rose to power as a manipulative acolyte of Saul Alinsky, the...
by Eric Burk | Apr 18, 2022 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia
In new fundraising results, Democrats are leading in congressional midterm races in Virginia’s 2nd, 7th, and 10th Congressional Districts. The GOP hasn’t yet picked nominees for those races, but State Senator Jen Kiggans (R-Virginia Beach), Derrick...
by The Center Square | Apr 18, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South
by Jon Styf Tennessee’s March unemployment rate of 3.2% was the lowest ever recorded, according to the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The 3.2% was a seasonally adjusted rate that surpassed the previous low mark of 3.3% in August 2019....
by Admin | Apr 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Minnesota, The Upper-Midwest
by Evan Stambaugh The Center of the American Experiment is hosting a tax rally outside the Minnesota Capitol to call for the return of the state’s enormous budget surplus to taxpayers. The event, the “Give It Back Rally,” will take place on Saturday, April 23,...
by Cooper Moran | Apr 18, 2022 | Arizona, Battleground States, The West
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey on Thursday launched a new task force to address the state’s infrastructure needs and appropriate federal funding administered to the state through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The legislation, which was approved on a...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Apr 18, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South
FEC records show that Baxter Lee, a candidate for the GOP nomination in the race for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District seat has raised $317,380 for the 2022 first-quarter reporting period. Lee also matched his contributions with a personal loan to the campaign,...
by Cooper Moran | Apr 18, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South
A new franchise and excise tax credit program in Tennessee is aiming to help create jobs and economic development throughout the state’s entertainment industry. According to a release from the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development...
by The Center Square | Apr 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Minnesota, The Upper-Midwest
by Mary Stroka Minnesota’s unemployment rate decreased to 2.5% in March, tying its lowest level ever recorded, the Department of Employment and Economic Development announced Thursday. The last time it was that low was in February 1999. “The decline...
by Cooper Moran | Apr 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Ohio, The Midwest
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose blasted a ruling from the Ohio Supreme Court which blocked the state’s redistricting maps for the fourth time. The ruling requires a new set of maps to be drawn and submitted to the Court and the Secretary of State’s office by May...
by The Center Square | Apr 18, 2022 | Battleground States, The Upper-Midwest, Wisconsin
by Benjamin Yount The Republican field for governor in Wisconsin is not growing – at least not yet. Madison businessman Eric Hovde on Friday told News Talk 1130 WISN’s Jay Weber that he is not running for governor this year. “It was a very hard decision. I...
by The Center Square | Apr 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Florida, The South
by Bethany Blankley Jurors in Florida heard opening arguments Monday in the civil case against pharmacy chain Walgreens over its marketing and distribution of opiods. The lawsuit was filed by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody. Walgreens supplied billions of...
by Admin | Apr 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Florida, The South
by Dan McCaleb The Florida Department of Education is rejecting more than 40% of the mathematics textbooks submitted to be used in the upcoming school year, citing critical race theory, Common Core and other language included in them that violate the...
by Admin | Apr 18, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South
by Paris Dennard In January, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki mocked those concerned about crime, laughing and flippantly asking “soft on crime consequences…what does that even mean?” For Tennesseans, it means 346 homicides in Memphis last year...
by Star News Staff | Apr 18, 2022 | Commentary, News
by Julie Kelly In the spring of 2020, President Donald Trump posted three tweets in a row aimed at Democratic governors continuing to impose draconian lockdowns amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” Trump tweeted on the morning of April 17, 2020. A...
by Cooper Moran | Apr 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Georgia, The South
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr joined a 21-state coalition which filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration to block the federal government from ending Title 42. Title 42 is a public health order from the Trump administration that allowed border officials...
by The Center Square | Apr 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Ohio, The Midwest
by J.D. Davidson The Ohio Supreme Court called the Ohio Redistricting Commission’s latest attempt to draw state legislative district maps a sideshow and said months of spending taxpayer dollars has the state back where it started more than six months ago. The...
by The Center Square | Apr 18, 2022 | Battleground States, Pennsylvania, The Northeast
by Anthony Hennen As the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education adjusts to the merging of some of its colleges, selling dorms could be on the table. At the latest PASSHE Board of Governors meeting, officials discussed the selling off of two Edinboro...
