by Eric Burk | Jul 3, 2022
Governor Glenn Youngkin signed Executive Order 19 and created a new Office of Regulatory Management (ORM) on Thursday, with the goal of reducing Virginia’s regulation. He tapped his advisor Andrew Wheeler to lead the office. “Last year, I pledged to...
by Star News Staff | Jul 3, 2022
by Jeffrey Lord Recently, Wyoming “Republican” Rep. Liz Cheney published a piece in the Wall Street Journal with this amusing headline: The Jan. 6 Committee Won’t Be Intimidated We are focused on facts, not rhetoric, and will present them no matter what our...
by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022
by Anthony Hennen A major change in public records requirements for some of Pennsylvania’s best-known universities is working through the General Assembly. Yet, while expansive, it would leave the public with less information about higher education than is...
by Steve Stewart | Jul 3, 2022
Florida’s Office of Economic and Demographic Research (EDR) reported that general revenue collections for May 2022 were $741.8 million (21.0 percent) over the estimates made in January 2022. In addition, consumer confidence among Floridians rebounded in June while...
by Rachel Alexander | Jul 3, 2022
Arizona attorney general candidate Andrew Gould, a Republican and former Arizona Supreme Court justice, said he has been suspended from Mailchimp for violating its terms of service. He believes it may have been due to a press release he issued on the U.S. Supreme...
by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022
by Elyse Apel Despite having the most sworn police officers over the past 10 years, the number of arrests by the Atlanta Police Department plummeted in 2021. The arrest total was down 65% from 2014, according to data provided by the city. The number of arrests...
by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022
by J.D. Davidson Property owners in southern Ohio continue to receive support in their ongoing legal fight to keep the Ohio Power Company from taking land through eminent domain. The Buckeye Institute, a Columbus-based policy group, filed an amicus brief with...
by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022
by Bruce Walker Ten Michigan church congregations, each of low-income nature, will share in a $1.24 million grant award for energy-efficiency upgrades. Federal money will be appropriated through the Sacred Spaces Clean Energy program to “advance environmental...
by Admin | Jul 3, 2022
by Anthony Gockowski The Minnesota Department of Health released two-years’ worth of abortion data Friday, correcting an abortion clinic’s 2020 reporting error. The state reports that there were 10,339 abortions in 2020 and 10,136 abortions in 2021. The state...
by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022
by Kimberly James One Connecticut-based firearms industry trade group has spent more on lobbying than the National Rifle Association. The National Shooting Sports Foundation, an industry trade association based in Newtown, has spent 40% more than the NRA...
by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022
by Benjamin Yount Rebecca Kleefisch can, and will, explain her tax plan in minute detail if you let her. Wisconsin’s former Lt. Governor isn’t hiding her passion as she runs for governor on the Republican ticket this fall. “I am not going to apologize for...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jul 3, 2022
Toast, Inc. officials announced Thursday that the company will establish its new configuration facility in Davidson County, selecting Antioch as the first location. The company expects to create more than 100 new jobs over the next five years in the greater Nashville...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Jul 3, 2022
Formerly known as Veterans for Trump, the group Veterans For America First endorsed Maury County Mayor Andy Ogles in the race for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District seat, announced the Ogles campaign in a statement. The statement notes: “The...
by Star News Staff | Jul 3, 2022
by Kerry McDonald “Our goal is to have a system in which every family in the U.S. will be able to choose for itself the school to which its children go,” the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman stated in 2003. “We are far from that ultimate result. If...
by Star News Staff | Jul 3, 2022
by Jennie Taer A majority of Latinos agree with Title 42, a Trump-era policy used to quickly expel migrants due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a poll released Thursday by Axios-Ipsos Latino in partnership with Noticias Telemundo. Of the Latinos polled,...
by Star News Staff | Jul 3, 2022
– – – Photo “Texas Supreme Court Justices” by txcourts.gov.
by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022
by Casey Harper Forty-six of the 50 U.S. states saw a decline in gross domestic product in the first quarter of 2022, newly released federal data shows. The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday that only Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire and...
by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022
by Richie Malouf Delta Airlines will allow travelers to change flights over the Independence Day holiday weekend at no cost, saying it expects an increase in traveler numbers not seen since before the pandemic. This week’s announced comes as Americans...
by Star News Staff | Jul 3, 2022
by Jennie Taer Four Iranians were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday as part of a wave of 675 migrants encountered in a single day in just one sector. The Iranians crossed among a group of 299 illegal migrants near Eagle Pass, Texas, U.S. Customs...
by Star News Staff | Jul 3, 2022
– – – Photo “Wuhan Institute of Virology” by Ureem2805. CC BY-SA 4.0.
by Star News Staff | Jul 3, 2022
by Bruce Bawer For a long time now, Sweden has had a history of being impressively ahead of the rest of the West in a number of areas: appeasing Nazis, remaining neutral during the Cold War, exporting porn, legalizing euthanasia, serving meatballs at furniture...
