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March 29, 2023

Catholic League: Nashville Shooting Should Be Investigated as a ‘Hate Crime Against Christians’

The president of the Catholic League said Tuesday that the Nashville school shooting “needs to be investigated as a hate crime against Christians” based on the report by the police chief that the transgender shooter held “some resentment for having...

March 29, 2023

Commentators Heap Praise on Nashville Police Officers Who Neutralized Suspect in Mass Shooting

After body camera footage was released Tuesday showing Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) officers charging into The Covenant School and killing Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the shooter responsible for killing three children and three adults at the school, social media is...

March 29, 2023

Sumner County School Whistleblower Makes Explosive Allegations About Policy Violations Against Only Candidate Recommended by Tennessee School Board Association for District Director Position

A Sumner County Schools employee whistleblower has made explosive allegations of multiple policy violations and the creation of a hostile work environment against the only candidate recommended by the Tennessee School Board Association (TSBA) for the district director position. Dr....

March 29, 2023

Two Years Later, January 6 Video Footage Raises New Questions About Police and Prosecutors

Two years after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the issue of security footage is bedeviling law enforcement as federal prosecutors belatedly admit there is footage of some cops consorting with the riotous crowd and a retired Capitol Police executive divulges...

March 29, 2023

Poll: Only 38 Percent of Americans Believe in American Patriotism

A new poll by the Wall Street Journal has found that an alarmingly low percentage of Americans value patriotism and traditional American values. As reported by Fox News, the WSJ/NORC poll showed that just 38 percent of respondents believe in the “importance...

March 29, 2023

School Libraries Across the Country Adding Books on Gender and White Supremacy

The Ann Arbor public school district has a book available in its pre-kindergarten library called “Introducing Teddy: a gentle story about gender and friendship." The book is about a boy's best friend and teddy, Thomas, who is sad because "he...

March 29, 2023

Drag Queen Performs Lap Dance on Student at North Carolina Technical College Pride Event with High Schoolers

Forsyth Technical Community College’s Pride Festival organizers invited the high school students who attend schools on its campus to its event that featured drag queen performances, including one in which a drag queen is seen performing a lap dance on...

March 29, 2023

Security Expert Shares Thoughts on Fortifying Schools After Nashville School Shooting

A security expert joined The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network's Editor-In-Chief and CEO Michael Patrick Leahy on Tuesday's episode of "The Tennessee Star Report" and discussed ways in which schools can fortify themselves against mass shooters. The discussion occurred less than 24...

March 29, 2023

While Pennsylvania Labor Secretary Pushes Minimum Wage Hike, Few Workers Make Only $7.25 an Hour

Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) officials testified before state senators Tuesday, requesting an increase in the department’s budget as well as a hike in the commonwealth’s minimum wage. Governor Josh Shapiro’s Fiscal Year 2023-24 spending proposal envisions an...

March 29, 2023

Federal and State Environmental Protection Agency Officials Testify on East Palestine Derailment at U.S. House Hearing

Federal and state Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials were questioned about the East Palestine train derailment at a Tuesday hearing of the U.S. House Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee over a month after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed...

March 29, 2023

Controversial Green Bay Mayor Faces Ethics Complaint over Alleged Campaign Materials Sent on City Email

Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich is facing an ethics complaint from a former mayoral candidate alleging the Democrat used his office to send out campaign materials to hundreds of residents. Genrich, engaged in a tough re-election battle against Brown County...

March 29, 2023

Georgia Taxpayers Have the Eighth-Best Return on ‘Investment’

Georgia taxpayers have the eighth-best return on their "investment." WalletHub used 29 metrics to analyze the efficiency of state-government services across five categories: education, the economy, health, safety and infrastructure and pollution, to develop the rankings.

March 29, 2023

Deadline Approaching to Join Michigan Unemployment Class-Action Suit

Michiganders who believe they were falsely accused of fraud between 2013-15 for receiving unemployment insurance benefits should know two upcoming deadlines to join a $20 million class action settlement with the state of Michigan. The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency blames...

March 29, 2023

Connecticut Seeks to Reduce Solid Waste Costs

Connecticut trucks hundreds of thousands of tons of solid waste to landfills in other states, which costs the state and taxpayers millions of dollars a year. Gov. Ned Lamont has pitched a plan to reduce the amount of waste going...

March 29, 2023

Commentary: Trump Again Defines National Priorities

Political observers and partisan activists debate whether Donald Trump or some other Republican candidate has the best chance of beating a Democratic rival in the 2024 presidential election. But earlier this month, Trump demonstrated that just as he did in...

March 29, 2023

Minnesota Elementary School to Hold ‘Gender Resource Fair’ for Kids

Minneapolis Public Schools will be hosting a “Gender Resource Fair” for elementary school students next month. The local teachers union promoted the event on Twitter, calling it a “very cool event for families and their gender-creative kids.”

March 29, 2023

Virginia Gov. Youngkin Signs into Law More than 700 New Measures

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed more than 700 bills sent to his desk by the General Assembly by Monday’s action deadline, approving a slew of new laws that will take effect by July 1. The governor approved 738 bills by...

March 29, 2023

DeSantis-Aligned Super PAC Taps Another Former Trump Aide

Never Back Down, the political action committee (PAC) that intends on recruiting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president in 2024, hired a strategic communications director – another former aide to President Donald Trump, according to The New York...

March 29, 2023

Lawmakers Furious at Governor Katie Hobbs for Cutting Border Strike Force with Crime Surging on the Border

Democratic Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs announced shortly after entering office in January that she would eliminate the Border Strike Force (BSF) that former Governor Doug Ducey created in 2015, sparking outrage from Republican lawmakers concerned about rising crime and violence...

March 29, 2023

Pence Returns to Iowa as He Mulls a Run for the White House and Faces Judge’s Order to Testify About Trump

Former Vice President Mike Pence is returning to Iowa Wednesday for a three-city trip as he moves closer to making an announcement on his presidential run. Pence is among at least four would-be GOP presidential contenders with plans to hit...

March 29, 2023

Senator JD Vance Says ‘Extreme Left’ Needs to do a Lot of ‘Soul Searching’ After Nashville School Shooting

In the wake of the murder of six people at a Christian School in Nashville, Tennessee by an individual who reportedly "identified as transgender" on Monday, U.S. Senator JD Vance (R-OH) said that the extreme left needs to do a...

March 29, 2023

Arizona Court Declares Phoenix Needs to Clean Up Large Homeless Encampment

The Maricopa County Superior Court made a preliminary order Monday regarding the lawsuit against Phoenix by city residents alleging that it was creating a public nuisance by not cleaning up "the Zone," a massive homeless encampment near downtown. Judge Scott...

March 29, 2023

Commentary: Iowa U.S. Senator Joni Ernst Says Time Is Up for TikTok

Make no mistake about it, TikTok is an arm of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda machine living rent-free on the devices of 150 million Americans, and it’s putting our national security in jeopardy. This insidious app collects your data,...

March 29, 2023

GOP State Legislators Disappointed by Arizona Gov. Hobbs’s Decision to Veto Grocery Tax Cut Legislation

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) announced several legislative actions on Tuesday, including the veto of Senate Bill (SB) 1063, sponsored by State Sen. Sonny Borrelli (R-Lake Havasu), which would have prevented Arizona municipalities from enforcing a tax on groceries. "This...

March 29, 2023

Attorney General Yost Files Lawsuit Against Swiss-Based Drug Pricing Racket Affecting Ohio

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a lawsuit against several pharmacy benefit management firms on the grounds that they have erroneously raised the cost of medications like insulin. Yost claims that the companies, one of which is based in Switzerland,...

March 29, 2023

Pennsylvania Lawmaker Presses Officials to Withdraw from Multi-State Voting Data-Sharing System

During discussions with Pennsylvania’s top election officials this week, state Senator Cris Dush (R-Bellefonte) urged the commonwealth to leave the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), an election data-sharing system. Over the last 14 months, five states have nixed their participation...

March 29, 2023

Early Voting Begins in Battleground Wisconsin’s State Supreme Court Election

Early voting has begun in Wisconsin for the state’s High Court, and this election becomes the most important decision of 2023, with ramifications far beyond the Badger state, and into 2024. Tested constitutionalist Daniel Kelly seeks to rejoin the state...

March 29, 2023

Pennsylvania County Election Officials to Sit Out House Hearing on Midterm Ballot Paper Shortage

The House Administration Committee is holding a hearing on Tuesday to investigate a ballot paper shortage that marred the midterm election in Luzerne County, Pa., but three key county election officials have declined invitations to testify. On the morning of...

March 29, 2023

Long-Serving Wisconsin Secretary of State La Follette About to Cash in on Lucrative Taxpayer-Subsidized Pension

Secretary of State Doug La Follette’s sudden retirement from the post he’s held for nearly half a century raised questions, particularly when Governor Tony Evers swiftly appointed former state treasurer and Democratic Party political climber Sarah Godlewski to take La...

March 29, 2023

Commentary: It’s Time to End Mexican Cartels’ Reign of Terror

Walking down long, ornate hallways, across a grand central courtyard adorned with a Pegasus-topped fountain, and through yet more corridors, our bipartisan delegation was guided to the offices of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for what we hoped would be...

March 29, 2023

Pennsylvania State Police Emphasize Diversity in Recruiting Efforts

Leaders of the Pennsylvania State Police emphasized their recruitment efforts as they testified in front of the House Appropriations Committee on Monday. They also supported Gov. Josh Shapiro’s call to create a dedicated fund, rather than relying on money from...

March 29, 2023

Trump Says GOP Has ‘No Choice’ But to Embrace Ballot Harvesting

Former President Donald Trump on Monday asserted that Republicans must embrace ballot harvesting in the states that permit the practice in order to win the next election. "So for 2024, should Republicans embrace early voting, voting by mail, and embrace...

March 29, 2023

New Kentucky Law Expands Definitions Related to the Use of School Resource Officers

Kentucky lawmakers hope they have already have taken steps that can help avoid a tragedy such as took place in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday. On Friday of last week, legislation was signed into law allowing parochial and other private schools...

March 28, 2023

Nashville Police Refuse to Release Trans School Shooter’s Manifesto

Nashville police will not be releasing the manifesto of the deceased Covenant School shooting suspect, a police spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Tuesday. Nashville Metro Police Department (NMPD) announced that they had found “writings” from 28-year-old transgender...

March 28, 2023

Citywide Candlelight Vigil Planned in Nashville to Mourn Those Lost in The Covenant School Shooting

A citywide candlelight vigil has been planned for Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at One Public Square Park to “mourn and honor the lives of the victims, and lift up the survivors and families of The Covenant School,” Nashville Mayor John...

March 28, 2023

Six Minutes of Heroism: Watch Nashville Police Officers Race Through School to Neutralize Shooter

Metropolitan Nashville Police on Tuesday released six-minutes of intense body camera footage showing how its officers rushed through The Covenant School a day earlier to track down the shooter and neutralize her. The video features footage from the body cameras of Officers...

March 28, 2023

Metro Nashville Police Confirm: School Shooter Was Audrey Elizabeth Hale, Who ‘Identified as Transgender’

The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) Monday evening confirmed that the person who shot and killed six people on Monday morning at The Covenant Presbyterian School in Nashville is 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who "identified as transgender." Hale was killed...

March 28, 2023

Gov. Ron DeSantis Signs Legislation He Calls ‘Largest Expansion of School Choice in History of These United States’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday in Miami that establishes an Education Savings Accounts (ESA) program under which every family in the state can receive up to $8,000 to cover education expenses outside of the public school system....

March 28, 2023

Methodology and Motive Questions Surround Poll Showing DeSantis Ahead of Trump in Iowa

Two polls showing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis “running more competitively” against former President Donald Trump in first-in-the-nation nominating states Iowa and New Hampshire are missing some key data, raising questions about the validity of the surveys. The polls, conducted by...

March 28, 2023

Tennessee House to Consider Increasing Voucher Eligibility

An amendment being brought forth this week by House Education Chair Mark White (R-Memphis) if made law, would make more families eligible to participate in the state's Education Savings Account (ESA) program. Often referred to as "vouchers", ESAs provide funding...

March 28, 2023

First-Citizens Bank Will Acquire Silicon Valley Bank: FDIC

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. agreed that the North Carolina-based First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co. can acquire the troubled Silicon Valley Bank, and 17 branches of the California-based bank will reopen Monday as branches of First-Citizens.

March 28, 2023

As Pentagon Struggles to Fill Military Requests, Funding Goes to Diversity, Critical Race Theory

The Pentagon is increasingly struggling to fill the weapons and equipment requests for the war in Ukraine. At the same time, taxpayer funds are going to pay for ongoing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts in the military, most recently one...

March 28, 2023

TikTok Not the Only China-Controlled App Thriving in America: Report

The top four downloaded applications in the past 30 days in the U.S. Apple App Store and Google Play Store are owned by Chinese-tied companies, according to data from Apptopia analyzed by Axios. While these Chinese-tied apps are thriving in the U.S.,...

March 28, 2023

Nearly 40 Percent of Veterans Reported Concerns About Being Able to Pay Medical Bills

A new report from the National Center for Health Statistics found that nearly 40% of veterans reported concerns about being able to pay their medical bills. Overall, the report found that 12.8% of veterans aged 25-64 had problems paying medical bills,...

March 28, 2023

Pennsylvania State House Members Support State Police Funding Increase; Off-Budget Account Questioned

Pennsylvania’s House Appropriations Committee members signaled general agreement with Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro’s budget-increase goals for Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) on Monday, though some related issues remain contentious. Representatives questioned PSP Commissioner Christopher Paris, Acting Deputy Commissioner of Operations George...