by Star News Staff | Mar 30, 2023
by John Harris In 2016 Tennessee passed two new statutes with bi-partisan support that addressed the issue of whether Tennessee’s private schools, both K-12 and “higher education,” could establish their own policies with respect to whether and to what extent...
by Susan Berry, PhD | Mar 30, 2023
Republican states are beginning to consider rejecting federal funding for K-12 education in order to keep out federal interference in the form of the strings attached to the monies. In February, Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) said he had...
by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 30, 2023
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee addressed the state on Tuesday in a video posted to social media just one day after six victims, including three children, were gunned down by 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale at The Covenant School in Nashville. The governor revealed that...
by The Center Square | Mar 30, 2023
by Jon Styf A day after shootings at a Nashville school left three students, three teachers and the shooter dead, Tennessee’s Senate Judiciary Committee delayed all of its gun-related bills one week. The committee was set to consider Senate Bill 1325, which...
by Star News Staff | Mar 30, 2023
by Robert Romano S.686, the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act or the appropriately titled “RESTRICT Act” could be used to censor any website in America, not just TikTok. The legislation would...
by The Center Square | Mar 30, 2023
by T.A. DeFeo A manufacturer of lightweight advanced materials for sustainable technology plans to open a manufacturing facility in Cartersville. Hanwha Advanced Materials Georgia, a subsidiary of South Korea’s Hanwha Group, plans to spend roughly $147 million...
by Star News Staff | Mar 30, 2023
by John Hugh DeMastri Ajay Banga, the former CEO of Mastercard that President Joe Biden has nominated to head the World Bank, told Axios Wednesday that both the bank and the private sector needed to spend “trillions” to combat both climate change and poverty....
by The Center Square | Mar 30, 2023
by Andrew Powell Critics say a bill that would increase retirement benefits for beneficiaries of the state’s defined-benefit pension system could put the system’s financials in future jeopardy. House Bill 239, which passed favorably through the House...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Mar 30, 2023
On the heels of The Tennessee Star’s report in which a security expert recommended that schools implement ballistic glass film to deter and prevent school shooters, another security expert has recommended that schools implement ballistic glass. “So even if you...
by The Center Square | Mar 30, 2023
by Christian Wade Connecticut’s health care expenses increased by 6% to $34 billion in 2021, according to a new report, exceeding a goal set by Gov. Ned Lamont to limit the state’s cost growth. The first annual Connecticut Healthcare Cost Growth Benchmark...
by Star News Staff | Mar 30, 2023
by Mary Lou Masters Republicans and Democrats are entering an arms race to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in upcoming 2024 campaigns to complete simple, daily tasks previously accomplished by droves of interns, according to The New York Times. Both parties...
by Neil Jones | Mar 30, 2023
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne (R) released a study Tuesday demonstrating that school districts that put a higher percentage of their budget into the classroom and teacher salaries perform better academically. “No school can be better...
by Rachel Alexander | Mar 30, 2023
The Scottsdale City Council voted 4-3 last week to convert two driving lanes in Scottsdale’s Old Town entertainment district to bicycle lanes. Along 68th Street from Indian School Road south to Thomas Road, one lane each way will become bicycle lanes, leaving only one...
by Neil Jones | Mar 30, 2023
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell (R) announced Monday that four individuals responsible for the 2022 armed robbery of an Arizona jewelry store had been sentenced to prison. “The victims in this case lived through terrifying moments as they feared for...
by Star News Staff | Mar 30, 2023
by Daniel J. Flynn Audrey Hale attended the Covenant School in Nashville as a child before returning Monday morning as Aiden Hale to murder three 9-year-olds, the principal, a substitute teacher, and a custodian. In some dark but loud corners of the internet,...
by Star News Staff | Mar 30, 2023
by Alexa Schwerha Michigan State University (MSU) will reimburse students in a business course who were forced to purchase a subscription to the professor’s website which allegedly donated to Planned Parenthood, the New Guard reported. Amy Wisner, a fixed-term...
by Hannah Poling | Mar 30, 2023
The State Legislature revived Cincinnati city officials’ attempt to sell a city-owned rail line to Norfolk Southern, the same company that caused the toxic disaster in East Palestine, which stalled last month, City leaders announced a plan to sell the rail line...
by M.D. Kittle | Mar 30, 2023
Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy blasted the U.S. Department of Education for creating “psychopaths” through gender ideology agendas while the nation’s schools are left unprotected from mass shooters like the one that terrorized a Nashville...
by Star News Staff | Mar 30, 2023
by Laurel Duggan Federal prosecutors in the Washington, D.C. U.S. attorney’s office declined to prosecute 67 percent of those arrested by the police in cases that would have been tried in the D.C. Superior Court in 2022, according to The Washington Post....
by Star News Staff | Mar 30, 2023
by Erinn Broadus The number of children admitted to hospitals for suicidal behavior has soared, according to a new report by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). An analysis of over 4 million hospitalizations found that pediatric stays for...
by RealClearWire | Mar 30, 2023
by Rupert Darwall As regular as the turn of the seasons, each January sees Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, publish a lengthy letter on the state of the world and its implications for finance and investors. This year,...