by Julie Carr | Nov 4, 2022
Live from Music Row, Friday 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 Congressman David Kustoff to the newsmaker line to describe...
by Julie Carr | Nov 4, 2022
Live from Music Row, Friday 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 Williamson County parent, Trisha Lucente with Parents Choice...
by Julie Carr | Nov 4, 2022
Live from Music Row, Friday 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 the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio...
by Susan Berry, PhD | Nov 4, 2022
A poll published Thursday found 72.7 percent of American voters say they are not likely to vote for candidates running in the midterm elections who support gender transition procedures for minors, such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries. The...
by TC Weber | Nov 4, 2022
The release of the “Nation’s Report Card” on October 24 produced mixed responses from individual states regarding their students’ scores in English language arts (ELA) and math, delivered by the nationally administered assessment. Some states,...
by Kaitlyn Osteen | Nov 4, 2022
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department continues to urge the citizens of Nashville to lock their car doors and secure their guns as the number of firearms stolen from vehicles climbs to 1,163 this year. “It’s become a disturbing trend, and it needs to stop; guns...
by The Center Square | Nov 4, 2022
by Benjamin Yount Early voting has begun in Wisconsin, and so has the Republican election watch. Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Paul Farrow said Thursday that the party has increased its focus on both poll workers and poll watchers to make sure that there...
by The Center Square | Nov 4, 2022
by Scott McClallen When in the spotlight at the Mackinac Policy Conference, Wayne County committed $32 million of federal COVID relief to small businesses in impoverished areas. The New Economy Initiative, a nonprofit that helps small businesses develop, added...
by Kaitlin Housler | Nov 4, 2022
President Joe Biden appointed Vanderbilt Peabody College research professor Douglas Fuchs, PhD to the National Board for Education Sciences, the university announced in a Wednesday press release. Biden selected Fuchs, along with 13 others, to serve as board members on...
by Kaitlyn Osteen | Nov 4, 2022
Memphis-area Rep. Steve Cohen (R-TN-09) announced on Wednesday that Tennessee will receive $82.2 million towards the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which is administered through the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health...
by Eric Burk | Nov 4, 2022
Governor Glenn Youngkin announced a tutoring partnership between four Richmond and Hampton Roads-area historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to employ their students as tutors and mentors for high school and middle school students. “Sadly last...
by Bradley Vasoli | Nov 4, 2022
Tennessee Republican Senator Bill Hagerty announced on Thursday that he and his Florida Republican colleague Marco Rubio wrote to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin this week expressing alarm at the removal of America’s F-15-jet fleet from Okinawa, Japan. The United...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Nov 4, 2022
After the city of Memphis announced a plan in September that would have brought a Grand Hyatt Hotel to Memphis as part of its One Beale project, it was disclosed this week that the plans for the hotel have fallen through. Developer Chance Carlisle blamed the city,...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Nov 4, 2022
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning Tennessee college students about what it calls “sextortion,” which it says is on the rise. “Tennessee college and university campuses have seen a marked increase in sextortion attempts aimed at...
by Hannah Poling | Nov 4, 2022
With only four days until the midterm election, Ohio election officials are reporting an increase in early in-person voters compared to 2018. Ohioans have cast almost 50 percent more early, in-person ballots this year than a week before the 2018 election, according to...
by Rachel Alexander | Nov 4, 2022
State Sen. and Majority Whip Sonny Borrelli (R-Havasu City) announced on Friday during a presentation that he has discovered at least 21,202 ballots were likely illegally cast during the 2020 election in Maricopa County. A group of concerned citizens he has been...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Nov 4, 2022
After a lengthy redistricting battle this year, more than 200 voters cast ballots in the wrong districts at the state or federal level, according to several reports. “Nothing can be done,” Davidson County Election Administrator Jeff Roberts said. “If...
by Hannah Poling | Nov 4, 2022
Ohio Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Representative Tim Ryan (D-OH-13) continues appeal to possible Republican and independent crossover voters in his U.S. Senate race by not endorsing President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. But Ryan’s stance...
by Eric Burk | Nov 4, 2022
Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that the national Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force is taking enforcement action against two telecoms providers over their alleged involvement in illegal robocalls. The two companies, Avid Telecom and One Eye, LLC, have...
by Hannah Poling | Nov 4, 2022
Law enforcement officials seized 570 grams of fentanyl on Monday in southwest Ohio, a haul the Butler County Sheriff’s Office said modest amount is enough to kill 190,000 people – roughly half the population of Butler County. The DEA notes that 3...
by Kaitlyn Osteen | Nov 4, 2022
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department continues to urge the citizens of Nashville to lock their car doors and secure their guns as the number of firearms stolen from vehicles climbs to 1,163 this year. “It’s become a disturbing trend, and it needs to stop; guns...
