by Eric Burk | Jan 13, 2023
During their inaugural speeches, Governor Brian Kemp and newly-elected Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones painted a picture of Republican successes in Georgia but called for further tax relief, investment in schools and health care, and tough-on-crime policies....
by Kaitlin Housler | Jan 13, 2023
The Beacon Center of Tennessee released a report Thursday highlighting challenges to healthcare access in the state posed by Certificate-of-Needs (CON) laws. CON laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, are defined as “state regulatory...
by Star News Staff | Jan 13, 2023
by Alexa Schwerha Female athletes, alumni and supporters delivered a petition to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Thursday demanding that the governing body take deliberate action to prohibit men from competing in women’s sports. The petition...
by TC Weber | Jan 13, 2023
The Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) Board of Education has joined the ranks of school districts that have passed referendums opposing Tennessee’s 3rd-grade retention law. The law, which goes into effect this year, mandates that all 3rd-graders who fail to...
by Star News Staff | Jan 13, 2023
by Victor Davis Hanson The Left has gone mad over Donald J. Trump—past, present, and future. The current Democratic Party and NeverTrump “conservatives” assumed that Trump was and remains so obviously toxic that they do not have to define exactly what his evil...
by Star News Staff | Jan 13, 2023
by Laurel Duggan A new study examining transgender patients’ stressors and coping mechanisms revealed widespread unhappiness with the outcomes of various cross-sex medical procedures, along with serious complications and negative side effects from surgeries and...
by Star News Staff | Jan 13, 2023
by Micaela Burrow Top officers in the U.S. Navy warned that the Ukraine war is putting a strain on an already stretched industrial base Tuesday, complaining defense contractors continue to fall behind in keeping up with the Navy’s needs, according to media...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jan 13, 2023
The entire Tennessee Congressional Delegation voted in favor of House Resolution 11 this week, which establishes a select committee on the strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. The resolution passed the House by a 365-65...
by Neil Jones | Jan 13, 2023
The Arizona-based Goldwater Institute (GI) announced Wednesday that a lawsuit had been filed against the city of Phoenix, alleging that it is violating the first amendment rights of some citizens leading up to the Super Bowl in February. “Hosting sporting events...
by Hannah Poling | Jan 13, 2023
In what the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is describing as one of their biggest arrests in years, authorities recovered eight pounds of methamphetamine from a Columbus apartment and detained two people. DEA agents in collaboration with officers from the Ohio...
by Neil Jones | Jan 13, 2023
Pima County announced Wednesday that its board of supervisors has settled on a new lease agreement with aerospace firm World View following a legal defeat from the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute (GI). “This revision of the World View lease should put to rest...
by M.D. Kittle | Jan 13, 2023
The regulatory shoe is on the other foot for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, served with notice on that it has violated Winnebago County zoning code. It appears the agency failed to secure conditional use and zoning permits before starting construction...
by The Center Square | Jan 13, 2023
by Cole Lauterbach In her Jan. 9 State of the State address, Gov. Katie Hobbs said the expansion of Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program would bankrupt the state’s budget. “Funding this expansion is poised to cost Arizona taxpayers an estimated...
by Hannah Poling | Jan 13, 2023
An activist-led petition for marijuana legalization in Ohio has been formally resubmitted to the legislature by the Ohio Secretary of State, giving legislators four months to evaluate the change. Advocates may then gather more signatures to get the issue on the...
by Star News Staff | Jan 13, 2023
by Debra Heine House Republicans intend to release 14,000 hours of January 6 tapes that have been hidden from the public, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) revealed on Tuesday. During an interview with Turning Point USA (TPUSA) president Charlie Kirk on his radio show, ...
by ADN America | Jan 13, 2023
by Katarina Hall The United States Border Patrol inaugurated this Wednesday in El Paso, Texas, a huge tent in the desert with capacity for 1,000 migrants, in order to help process the record number of people who cross the border between the United States and...
by Star News Staff | Jan 13, 2023
by Jonathan Miltimore House Speaker Nancy Pelosi officially stepped away from leadership last week after two decades directing the political agenda of House Democrats. There’s no denying the historic nature of the California lawmaker’s tenure, whose leadership...