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Youngkin Puts Wheeler in Charge Office of Regulatory Management with Goal of 25 Percent Regulation Cuts

Youngkin Puts Wheeler in Charge Office of Regulatory Management with Goal of 25 Percent Regulation Cuts

by Eric Burk | Jul 3, 2022 | Battleground States, The South, Virginia

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...
Commentary: Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger’s Vendetta Politics

Commentary: Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger’s Vendetta Politics

by Star News Staff | Jul 3, 2022 | Commentary, News

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...
Open Records Bill Would Mean Major Changes for Pennsylvania ‘State Related’ Universities

Open Records Bill Would Mean Major Changes for Pennsylvania ‘State Related’ Universities

by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022 | Battleground States, Pennsylvania, The Northeast

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...
Florida’s Revenue Collections 21 Percent over Projections, Consumer Confidence Rebounds

Florida’s Revenue Collections 21 Percent over Projections, Consumer Confidence Rebounds

by Steve Stewart | Jul 3, 2022 | Battleground States, Florida, The South

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...
Mailchimp Suspends Account of Arizona Attorney General Candidate Andrew Gould

Mailchimp Suspends Account of Arizona Attorney General Candidate Andrew Gould

by Rachel Alexander | Jul 3, 2022 | Arizona, Battleground States, The West

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...
More Sworn Law Enforcement Officers in Atlanta, but Arrests Fall 65 Percent from Peak

More Sworn Law Enforcement Officers in Atlanta, but Arrests Fall 65 Percent from Peak

by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022 | Battleground States, Georgia, The South

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...
Eminent Domain Issue Reaches Ohio Supreme Court

Eminent Domain Issue Reaches Ohio Supreme Court

by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022 | Battleground States, Ohio, The Midwest

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...
Ten Michigan Churches to Share in $1.24M Energy Efficiency Grant

Ten Michigan Churches to Share in $1.24M Energy Efficiency Grant

by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022 | Battleground States, Michigan, The Upper-Midwest

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...
Convenience Most Common Reason for Abortions in Minnesota

Convenience Most Common Reason for Abortions in Minnesota

by Admin | Jul 3, 2022 | Battleground States, Minnesota, The Upper-Midwest

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...
Newtown-Based Firearms Trade Association Spends More Lobbying Congress than NRA

Newtown-Based Firearms Trade Association Spends More Lobbying Congress than NRA

by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022 | Battleground States, Connecticut, The Northeast

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...
Gubernatorial Candidate Rebecca Kleefisch’s New Tax Plan Will Set Wisconsin on the Path to ‘Eliminating the Income Tax’

Gubernatorial Candidate Rebecca Kleefisch’s New Tax Plan Will Set Wisconsin on the Path to ‘Eliminating the Income Tax’

by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022 | Battleground States, The Upper-Midwest, Wisconsin

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...
Toast, Inc. Announces New Configuration Facility in Antioch

Toast, Inc. Announces New Configuration Facility in Antioch

by Kaitlin Housler | Jul 3, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South

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...
Veterans For America First Endorses Andy Ogles for TN-5 Seat

Veterans For America First Endorses Andy Ogles for TN-5 Seat

by Aaron Gulbransen | Jul 3, 2022 | News, Tennessee, The South

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...
Commentary: Arizona’s New School Choice Bill Moves Us Closer to Milton Friedman’s Vision

Commentary: Arizona’s New School Choice Bill Moves Us Closer to Milton Friedman’s Vision

by Star News Staff | Jul 3, 2022 | Commentary, News

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...
Poll: Majority of Latinos Support Key Trump-Era Border Policy

Poll: Majority of Latinos Support Key Trump-Era Border Policy

by Star News Staff | Jul 3, 2022 | National, News

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,...
Texas Supreme Court Reverses Judge, Allows Century-Old Abortion Ban to Take Effect for Now

Texas Supreme Court Reverses Judge, Allows Century-Old Abortion Ban to Take Effect for Now

by Star News Staff | Jul 3, 2022 | National, News

 – – – Photo “Texas Supreme Court Justices” by txcourts.gov. 
Feds: 46 States Saw GDP Decline in First Quarter of This Year

Feds: 46 States Saw GDP Decline in First Quarter of This Year

by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022 | National, News

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...
Delta Airlines to Allow Travelers to Change Flights at No Cost Ahead of Holiday Weekend

Delta Airlines to Allow Travelers to Change Flights at No Cost Ahead of Holiday Weekend

by The Center Square | Jul 3, 2022 | National, News

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...
Iranians Caught Trying to Cross the Southern Border as Part of Migrant Caravan

Iranians Caught Trying to Cross the Southern Border as Part of Migrant Caravan

by Star News Staff | Jul 3, 2022 | National, News

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...
Defunding Wuhan: Congress Quietly Bans Federal Funds from Labs in China, Russia and Iran

Defunding Wuhan: Congress Quietly Bans Federal Funds from Labs in China, Russia and Iran

by Star News Staff | Jul 3, 2022 | National, News

 – – – Photo “Wuhan Institute of Virology” by Ureem2805. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Commentary: Non-Binary Pronouns Are Conquering the West

Commentary: Non-Binary Pronouns Are Conquering the West

by Star News Staff | Jul 3, 2022 | Commentary, News

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...
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