by Star News Staff | Feb 17, 2023
by Mary Lou Masters The U.S. is likely to add $19 trillion more to the national debt in the next 10 years, which is $3 trillion higher than previously expected, new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predictions show. By the end of 2023, the CBO projects the...
by TC Weber | Feb 17, 2023
At this week’s House Education Instruction Subcommittee meeting, State Representative Antonio Parkinson (D-Memphis) introduced HB 0691, which would allow students to earn one credit in data science to satisfy one of the four mathematics credits required for high...
by Star News Staff | Feb 17, 2023
by John Hugh DeMastri Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki will be stepping down after a nine year stint as head of the company, Wojcicki announced in a blog post Thursday. Wojcicki initially joined Google, Youtube’s parent company, nearly 25 years ago and worked on...
by The Center Square | Feb 17, 2023
by Christian Wade Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has signed a bill extending “guardrail” fiscal reforms that have been credited with helping turn the state’s once-troubled finances around. The measure, which was approved by the state Legislature...
by The Center Square | Feb 17, 2023
by Jon Styf A bill to add Hamilton County schools to Tennessee’s pilot education savings account program was approved by the Senate on Thursday and is scheduled to be discussed in House committee next week. Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, explained...
by Just the News | Feb 17, 2023
by Charlotte Hazard Harvard Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said it was unconstitutional for a Georgia judge to release parts of a Fulton County special grand jury report looking into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to challenge...
by Star News Staff | Feb 17, 2023
by Victor Davis Hanson A recent epidemic of airline near misses deserves both attention and reflection. In mid-December, a San Francisco-bound United Airlines Boeing 777-200 airliner, just a little over a minute after taking off from Maui, Hawaii, suddenly...
by M.D. Kittle | Feb 17, 2023
DJ Ferguson didn’t get a COVID-19 shot. He was concerned about side effects and the rapid rate in which the vaccines were developed. That decision cost him his place in line for a desperately needed heart transplant. Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital dropped the...
by Susan Berry, PhD | Feb 17, 2023
The Democrat-controlled Senate is celebrating the confirmation of 100 of Joe Biden’s judicial nominees, approved by radical left-wing organizations, but Wednesday’s Judiciary Committee hearing saw Biden nominee Michael Delaney struggling against an onslaught of...
by The Center Square | Feb 17, 2023
by Cameron Arcand Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Karrin Taylor Robson is considering a run for United States Senate in 2024. “Karrin is exploring all options. She would be extremely formidable in 2024,” a spokesman for Robson told The Center Square....
by Neil Jones | Feb 17, 2023
Arizona State House Speaker Ben Toma (R-Peoria) announced Thursday the formation of the House Committee on International Trade to help improve Arizona’s economic footprint. “Trade is essential to Arizona’s success,” said Toma. “It fuels...
by Bradley Vasoli | Feb 17, 2023
Congressman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH-02) this week commenced a House of Representatives investigation concerning the genesis of the novel coronavirus that hit U.S. shores in winter 2020. As the new chair of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, the...
by M.D. Kittle | Feb 17, 2023
Billing it a “breakthrough budget,” Governor Tony Evers rolled out a massive two-year spending plan on Wednesday that would dump billions more taxpayer dollars into a host of new programs, raise taxes by $1 billion-plus on businesses, deliver a sweetheart deal to the...
by Hannah Poling | Feb 17, 2023
The Buckeye Institute filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the city of Columbus to protect the rights of Ohioans to keep and bear arms. The filing follows the adoption of Ordinance 3176-2022 by the Columbus City Council, which forbade the use of certain firearm...
by Neil Jones | Feb 17, 2023
The Arizona State Senate turned down Gov. Katie Hobbs’s nomination for the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) Director, Dr. Theresa Ann Cullen, in a vote Tuesday. Following the rejection, freshman State Sen. Justine Wadsack (R-Tucson) celebrated her...
by Hannah Poling | Feb 17, 2023
Following several weeks without any measures being formally submitted with bill numbers, the Ohio House Speaker and his leadership team have announced their legislative priorities, which range from adjustments to property taxes, to adoption, to protecting the...
by Star News Staff | Feb 17, 2023
by Eric Lendrum On Tuesday, the Idaho House of Representatives passed a bill that would implement a statewide ban on so-called “transgender” surgeries for minors, as well as medications that are meant to indulge delusions of gender dysphoria. According to...
by Bethany Bowman | Feb 17, 2023
NASHVILLE, Tennessee – Hillary Reese comes from a big sports family in Mississippi full of coaches and teachers. But she and her brother both desired to do music instead. (Her brother, Parker Reese, has a degree in Music Education.) “We were not coordinated and...
by RealClearWire | Feb 17, 2023
by Richard Samuelson The betting odds are that the Supreme Court will soon rule against affirmative action. It is worth asking how we got here, and what we should do about it. Why is affirmative action in jeopardy? The main reason, ironically, might be the...
by Star News Staff | Feb 17, 2023
by Debra Heine Newly obtained documents from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reveal that before the FDA approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 shots, the United States and United Kingdom health regulators struck a deal to keep information...
