Virginia Gov. Youngkin Signs Recently Amended Budget

Virginia Gov. Youngkin Signs Recently Amended Budget

by Morgan Sweeney   Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed the overdue state budget passed in the General Assembly special session on Sept. 6. After much back and forth over fiscal priorities, budget negotiators landed on a bipartisan agreement with elements for...
Florida City Councilman Faces Recall Petition

Florida City Councilman Faces Recall Petition

by Mercedes Yanora   Ballotpedia tracked one new recall effort against a local official in Florida from Sept. 4 through Sept. 10, bringing the yearly statewide total to six efforts against five officials. The most recent effort is: Henry Rosenthal recall,...
Commentary: Another Whitmer Fednapping Case Goes Boom

Commentary: Another Whitmer Fednapping Case Goes Boom

In another blow to the FBI’s concocted plot to kidnap and assassinate Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, a jury in Antrim County today acquitted three men indicted on state charges for their alleged role in the scheme. Michael and William Null, twin brothers,...
Commentary: Virginia Is for Lover and Voyeurs

Commentary: Virginia Is for Lover and Voyeurs

by Shaun Kenney   HAMLET Get thee ⟨to⟩ a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more...
Commentary: The Reason Most College Professors Lean Left

Commentary: The Reason Most College Professors Lean Left

by Matthew Xiao   Studies have consistently shown a pronounced left-leaning political inclination among college professors. For example, a Harvard University survey last year revealed that of the 476 faculty members who responded, around 80 percent identified as...