by M.D. Kittle | Jul 29, 2023
DES MOINES, Iowa — Forget all those stodgy, static polls. The Republican Party of Iowa’s Lincoln Dinner after parties are where the action is. Following 130 minutes of speeches from the 13 GOP presidential candidates who turned out Friday for Iowa’s largest political...
by Star News Staff | Jul 29, 2023
by Dave Huber As a young teen I couldn’t get enough of Carl Sagan’s book “Cosmos,” and the movie based on his novel of the same name, Contact, remains one of my favorite scifi offerings. Sagan, and by extension Contact protagonist Ellie Arroway, became the sort...
by Star News Staff | Jul 29, 2023
by Harold Hutchison Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Twitter owner Elon Musk ripped the current education system in the United States Friday, saying that taxpayers were “paying people to hate America.” Ramaswamy and Musk took part in a...
by M.D. Kittle | Jul 29, 2023
DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa nice converged with Hawkeye heat Friday evening, as the Republican Party of Iowa hosted the largest cattle call to date of the GOP presidential combatants on one of the hottest days of the year. The party’s sold-out Lincoln Dinner fundraiser...
by Admin | Jul 29, 2023
The Telegraph UK Former US president Donald Trump said Friday he would not end his run for the White House if he were convicted and sentenced in any of the criminal investigations mounting against him. The 77-year-old Republican frontrunner was asked about his...
by M.D. Kittle | Jul 29, 2023
Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is beginning to build his political ground game in Iowa, even as he battles a Democratic Party that has kicked the kickoff caucus state out of its long-held position of primacy. The Kennedy family scion and...
by Hannah Poling | Jul 29, 2023
Arizona Republican longtime Gilbert resident Andrew Jackson told The Arizona Sun Times that he officially announced his candidacy for a run for the Arizona House of Representatives to represent Legislative District 14 (LD) in 2024. “Yes, it is now official....
by Just the News | Jul 29, 2023
by Kenan Grier The Virginia High School League, which oversees most of the state’s high school sports, says it has no immediate plans to change policies governing transgender athletes, despite Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s new guidelines that call for...
by The Center Square | Jul 29, 2023
by Anthony Hennen Employees at a Pittsburgh-area Starbucks say they want to de-unionize amid growing workplace tension. The request comes just one year after the Penn Center East location became one of 25 in Pennsylvania to organize under Starbucks Workers...
by The Center Square | Jul 29, 2023
by Anthony Hennen State and federal officials continue to monitor the impact of the Norfolk Southern train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, but independent scientists worry that indoor air quality has been ignored. The lack of transparency, too, has...
by Hannah Poling | Jul 29, 2023
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced the appointment of Republican attorney Chris Berhalter to the Belmont County Court of Common Pleas General and Domestic Relations Division serving the community of Belmont County. Judge-designee Berhalter (pictured above), of...
by The Center Square | Jul 29, 2023
by Mary Stroka Starting in September, all Minnesota debt collectors must provide debtors a list of Minnesota-based nonprofit organizations that can provide them with credit counseling. The Minnesota Department of Commerce is implementing laws that legislators...
by Just the News | Jul 29, 2023
by John Solomon Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis laid out the broad strokes of his economic policy in an interview with Just the News, vowing to reinvigorate America’s manufacturing base, rein in the Federal Reserve and ban a central bank digital currency if elected...
by The Center Square | Jul 29, 2023
by Scott McClallen Michigan’s 2024 budget should make a splash in at least three communities approved for taxpayer-funded public pool repairs. The record-setting $82 billion budget funds $7.6 million for public pools repairs: $6.2 million for Moore’s Park pool...
by The Center Square | Jul 29, 2023
by T.A. DeFeo Georgia lawmakers are likely to pass school choice legislation when they reconvene, one expert predicts. School choice has taken on new resonance after Rep. Mesha Mainor of Atlanta, an ardent school choice supporter, announced she was switching to...
by The Center Square | Jul 29, 2023
by Christian Wade Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has tapped a former federal prosecutor to conduct an independent investigation of allegations that state police may have issued hundreds of “fake” tickets. Lamont said he has hired former U.S. Attorney...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Jul 29, 2023
A U.S. Senate hopeful offered her support for a lawsuit by the Tennessee Education Association (TEA) seeking to reinstate Critical Race Theory in Tennessee schools. “Nothing better than seeing good folks fight back on whitewashing our history!” State...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jul 29, 2023
The Uvalde Foundation For Kids is looking for Tennessee volunteers interested in patrolling Covenant School students returning to class this upcoming school year. Brentwood Hills Church of Christ will provide classrooms for students of The Covenant School for the...
by Just the News | Jul 29, 2023
by Nicholas Ballasy Top House Republicans investigating Hunter Biden’s business dealings are raising concerns about Senate Republicans’ call for Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel, including potential partiality and...
by Just the News | Jul 29, 2023
by Madeleine Hubbard Court documents more clearly show what transpired in Hunter Biden’s federal hearing Wednesday in Delaware on a plea deal for federal tax and gun-registration charges. But more questions are arising regarding what the Justice...
by Star News Staff | Jul 29, 2023
by Matthew Boose The basic contours of the Biden family’s corruption scandal have been known for years, but the details have been suppressed. What the public knows, it knows despite the efforts of the media, the Democrats, and the “intelligence community” to...
