by Hannah Poling | Feb 2, 2023
A man stating that he identifies as a woman was charged with three counts of public indecency for using the women’s changing facilities at the Xenia YMCA. This comes just weeks after Green County prosecutor David Hayes requested an opinion from Ohio Attorney...
by Star News Staff | Feb 2, 2023
by Tyler O’Neil An organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals poked holes in a study claiming to prove the marginal benefits of cross-sex hormones for teenagers who persistently identify with the gender opposite their biological sex....
by Star News Staff | Feb 2, 2023
by David Blackmon Climate change activist Greta Thunberg made news recently when she was arrested during a protest at a coal mining site near Lutzerath, Germany. The news did not come so much from her arrest by German police dressed up in riot gear, but by the...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 2, 2023
Four out of the five Memphis police officers fired and criminally charged in the death of Tyre Nichols have previous records of disciplinary complaints. The five former officers – Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley (Pictured above, left), Justin Smith (Pictured...
by TC Weber | Feb 2, 2023
Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) principals will head north in June to Louisville, Kentucky for a summer retreat Nashville school district participants like to call “Principal Splash.” MNPS spokesman Sean Braisted told The Tennessee Star,...
by TC Weber | Feb 2, 2023
Wednesday marked the deadline for charter school applicants to submit their packages to local school boards in counties where they wish to establish a new charter school, and American Classical Education (ACE) has submitted applications in five Tennessee counties. ACE...
by The Center Square | Feb 2, 2023
by J.D. Davidson Ohio communities collected more fines and fees than local governments in nearly every other state, according to a new report. A Reason Foundation report that examined revenues generated through law enforcement by local governments, showed Ohio...
by Hannah Poling | Feb 2, 2023
Following Governor Mike DeWine’s State of the State address in the Ohio House chamber on Tuesday, Ohio lawmakers in the House and Senate voiced their opinions. DeWine centered his address on his budget proposal. The proposal will be presented in the Ohio House...
by TC Weber | Feb 2, 2023
The rules governing Tennessee’s new K-12 education funding formula – Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) – took another step towards full adoption on Monday, passing out of the Tennessee General Assembly’s Joint Government...
by Neil Jones | Feb 2, 2023
Republican Arizona state legislators of the House and Senate are moving forward with their previously proposed continuation budget, referred to as a “skinny budget,” which members call the financially responsible move to ensure state entities are funded...
by The Center Square | Feb 2, 2023
by Benjamin Yount There’s now a lawsuit over Wisconsin’s bail reform amendment and welfare-to-work ballot question. Two groups that represent former prison inmates, WISDOM – a statewide faith-based organization –and Ex-Incarcerated People Organizing, filed the...
by The Center Square | Feb 2, 2023
by Cameron Arcand As six states wait for California to join its Colorado River Basin water use agreement, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema called on the state to be willing to seal the deal. In a letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation...
by The Center Square | Feb 2, 2023
by Madison Hirneisen Virginia may soon make younger veterans eligible for an income tax subtraction on military retirement pay under a bill that received bipartisan support in the House of Delegates Tuesday. House Bill 1436 received broad bipartisan support...
by Star News Staff | Feb 2, 2023
by John Hugh DeMastri The Federal Reserve raised its target federal-funds interest rate by a quarter percentage point Wednesday, the slowest in a series of eight hikes that began in March 2022. The hike brings the Fed’s target rate to a range between 4.5...
by Star News Staff | Feb 2, 2023
by Jack Yoest Two recent proposals that the federal government are considering in the name of consumer safety have Uncle Sam coming after products millions of Americans use every day. While a potential gas stove ban has received several headlines in recent days,...
