Early voting has begun in the March 13 special election to replace former State Senator Jim Tracy (R-Shelbyville), who resigned when he was was tapped by the Trump Administration to serve in the USDA. Republican Shane Reeves is facing off against Democrat Gale Jordan. Reeves, a first-time candidate, won the Republican primary…
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee–Youth In Government Press Corps video editor Chasity Chambers and video producer Amanda Nolan, along with their student team of on-air talent, are documenting the daily events at the 65th Annual Youth In Government General Assembly, a program of the Tennessee YMCA Center for Civic Engagement, at the State…
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee–In an era where hard copy newspapers are shrinking in size and, in many cases, disappearing from the scene entirely, the student journalists who form the Press Corps at the 65th Annual Youth In Government General Assembly held this week in Nashville are bucking the trend. Led by Press…
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President Donald Trump has nominated 84 people for federal judgeships. Yet despite Republicans enjoying total control of the federal government, the judiciary has more vacancies than when the president took office. Trump inherited 112 vacancies when he took the oath of office in January 2017. That has grown to 148,…
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Rep. Devin Nunes says the FBI violated its own rules, and may have skirted federal law, by using a Democratic Party-bought dossier to spy on a Trump campaign volunteer. In a letter, he has asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to “hold accountable” those who oversaw the warrant on Carter Page.
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Facebook on Friday said it mistakenly threatened to demonetize a satirical website’s social networking account after one of its articles, “CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication,” was debunked by Snopes, the fact-checking site used to help counter the platform’s fake news problem.
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On Nov. 12, 2017, one of the best things that could have happened to Washington happened. The term of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen ended. Mr. Koskinen supervised the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups. He lied to Congress. He misled Congress. He ignored subpoenas and at least tried to…
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President Trump will hold a campaign rally March 10 in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, visiting the heart of steel country after announcing plans for big tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. The proposed tariffs stirred fierce opposition among free-market conservatives and sent the stock market into a nosedive on fears of…
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The United States is brushing aside a series of claims by Russian President Vladimir Putin that he has an array of new strategic nuclear weapons that can hit a target anywhere in the world. Both the White House and the Pentagon dismissed the talk as rhetoric Thursday, saying Russia’s attempts…
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Manipulating the statistics on school discipline issues can mean big bucks for districts once the stats tell the feds the story they want to hear, as a piece in recently noted. Unless Secretary of Education Betsy Devos can roll back the Obama-era guidelines that encouraged this, the politically correct recipe…
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Curtis Houck, the managing editor of NewsBusters, ripped into CNN host Don Lemon for falsely claiming that “Trump TV” Fox News didn’t report on White House communications director Hope Hicks’ resignation on Wednesday.
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•DOJ’s internal watchdog to criticize former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe McCabe authorized leaks to the media, according to new reports The former deputy director also reportedly misled watchdog investigators about the media disclosures McCabe stepped down from his position in January The Department of Justice’s internal watchdog will criticize…
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President Donald Trump responded Friday to strong criticisms that his pursuit of punitive trade measures will trigger a trade war with a tweet arguing that sometimes “trade wars are good.” Following recent decisions to place tariffs on imported washing machines, solar panels, and aluminum foil, the president announced Thursday that…
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The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), estimates that illegal immigration cost Tennessee taxpayers $793 million dollars in 2017. A recently updated infographic published by FAIR, estimates that 135,000 illegal aliens live in Tennessee that along with approximately 46,000 of their children born in the U.S., brings the total to over 180,000…
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