by The Center Square | Feb 23, 2023
by Andrew Powell The Florida House Subcommittee on Children, Families and Seniors met in Tallahassee Wednesday and discussed the phenomena of benefit cliffs with several programs and how they can provide a disincentive for work. The subcommittee was given a...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 23, 2023
Emergency response personnel responded to the Y‑12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge on Wednesday after a fire broke out in “a hood” inside production building 9212. Y-12 is one of six production facilities in the National Nuclear Security...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 23, 2023
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) will offer an accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program beginning this year’s fall semester. The accelerated program, according to a press release by UTC, is intended for those who already have bachelor’s...
by Star News Staff | Feb 23, 2023
by Kevin Portteus In his latest offensive to rid Florida’s educational system of revolutionary Marxism, Governor Ron DeSantis announced what amounts to a new direction for one of the most liberal educational institutions in the state: the New College of...
by Laura Baigert | Feb 23, 2023
The Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (TACIR) announced last week the release of its 21st annual report on the public infrastructure needs across the state during the five-year period of July 2021 to June 2026. The latest report, “Building...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 23, 2023
The Tennessee Historical Commission (THC) recently voted to preserve a monument in Nashville’s Centennial Park that features a bronze sculpture of a young Confederate private holding a rifle seated on a stone. The monument, which was commissioned in 1902, was...
by The Center Square | Feb 23, 2023
by T.A. DeFeo Inflation will likely stick around for the foreseeable future, and the elevated inflation continues to worry Georgia businesses, groups said. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers...
by The Center Square | Feb 23, 2023
by Scott McClallen Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed $79 billion budget aims to allocate $10 million to transition the state’s automotive fleet to electric vehicles. The governor budgeted $318 million on EV incentives: $150 million to help school districts buy...
by Neil Jones | Feb 23, 2023
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne (R) released a statement Tuesday encouraging schools to adopt a character-focused curriculum created by Character Counts (CC) as new matching grant applications will open soon. “When I was last...
by Bradley Vasoli | Feb 23, 2023
Two Ohio congressmen are spearheading legislation to boost U.S. fossil-fuel-refining capacity which has declined since 2020. Representatives Bob Latta (R-OH-05) and Troy Balderson (R-OH-12) are sponsoring the Researching Efficient Federal Improvements for Necessary...
by M.D. Kittle | Feb 23, 2023
Sun Prairie Area School District’s use of American Family Insurance grant funds to promote programs that appear to be exclusively for black students is an attempt to launder race discrimination, a public interest law firm attorney told The Wisconsin Daily Star....
by Star News Staff | Feb 23, 2023
by Harold Hutchison Twitter users reacted to a Tuesday evening confrontation between a Daily Caller News Foundation reporter and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, with some calling Buttigieg out for taking a photo of the reporter. DCNF investigative...
by RealClearWire | Feb 23, 2023
by Philip Wegmann As President Biden boarded a European train destined for Kyiv, back in Washington, Rep. James Comer and his team drafted a long-expected letter. Standing next to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Biden pledged Monday that the lifeline of...
by Just the News | Feb 23, 2023
by Natalia Mittelstadt Dominion Voting Systems employees have acknowledged serious problems with the company’s technology, saying, for example, that a bug led to “INCORRECT results,” according to discovery cited in the defense brief in...
by The Center Square | Feb 23, 2023
by Bethany Blankley A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel unanimously voted to recommend the agency approve Narcan, a life-saving drug for opioid overdoses, be made available to purchase over the counter without a prescription. Narcan is accessible for...