Embattled Shelby County District Attorney’s Office Confirms Sending Current, Former Employee Records in Mass Email

Steve Mulroy

The office of embattled Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy on Wednesday confirmed to media outlets it accidentally sent the employee records of nearly 300 current and former staff members, including social security numbers, in a mass email to employees.

A statement released by Mulroy’s office to media outlets confirmed the leak of the information, which Fox 13 Memphis reported came in the form of a spreadsheet that “contained the personal information of almost 300 current and former employees dating back to 2014.”

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Arizona ‘Microbusiness’ Loan Program Now Available

Small Business

Some small businesses in Arizona can now request small loans of $50,000 and under, the governor’s office announced last week.

Dubbed the “Arizona Microbusiness Loan Program,” it uses $5 million in funding allocated from the legislature last year to distribute loans using partners financial institutions at the local level. A microbusiness in Arizona is defined as those with five or fewer employees, according to a news release.

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GOP PA-5 Nominee Alfe Goodwin Argues Defund the Police ‘Power Grab’ Supported by Harris-Walz and Rep. Scanlon Led to Officer Shortages

Defund the Police

Pennsylvania U.S. House candidate Alfe Goodwin told The Pennsylvania Daily Star on Tuesday the past support of the Defund the Police movement by Vice President Kamala Harris, Governor Tim Walz, and her opponent Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA-05) contributed to the police shortage in Philadelphia and its surrounding communities.

Goodwin told The Star her 14 years of experience with the Philadelphia Police Department gave her a “unique perspective” when Scanlon and other Democrats in 2020 expressed support for defunding the police, who she called “the first ones to see the results of policy” due to their presence in local communities.

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Pennsylvania Democrats Ignore Investments by Sen. Bob Casey in Chinese Fentanyl Company with Attacks on Dave McCormick

Bob Casey

The Pennsylvania Democratic Party on Tuesday issued a press release containing remarks by elected officials about the investment by Republican U.S. Senate nominee Dave McCormick in fund that owns shares in a Chinese fentanyl manufacturer, despite failing to acknowledge a similar investment by Senator Bob Casey (D-PA).

A party press release reports that State Representative Jim Prokopiak (D-Bucks County) and Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie held a press conference to condemn McCormick for his investment and his stance on abortion.

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Commentary: The Demographics of Realignment

Voters casting ballots

It has become a truism among right-of-center voters in America that as the percentage of non-Hispanic whites in the population decreases, the percentage of registered Democrats increases. This truism is shared, of course, by the progressive left in America. That might lead one to conclude that if Democrats wanted to turn America into a one-party nation, they would do everything in their power to increase the percentage of voters who are not “non-Hispanic whites.”

There is evidence to support this truism. For example, in 1970, the population of California was 80 percent non-Hispanic whites, with Republican governor Ronald Reagan and both houses of the state legislature controlled by Republicans. That was the last year Republicans had a trifecta in the state. Today, California’s population of non-Hispanic whites has declined to 34 percent, and the state is under the absolute control of Democrats. They have held both houses of the state legislature since 1997, and apart from Schwarzenegger’s anomalous presence from 2004 through 2010, the state hasn’t had a Republican governor since 1998.

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Ohio Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Stop Taxing Tips

Rep. Jay Edwards

An Ohio lawmaker, federal lawmakers and both presidential candidates want to eliminate taxes on tips, but a nonpartisan tax policy group says the idea could create issues.

Rep. Jay Edwards, R-Nelsonville, recently introduced legislation exempting tips and gratuities from state income tax. It has not been sent to a committee, and lawmakers are not expected to return to session until after the November election.

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Music Spotlight: Walker Montgomery

Walker Montgomery

Country music is part of Walker Montgomery’s DNA. Even though he is the son of John Michael Montgomery and the nephew of Montgomery Gentry’s Eddie Montgomery, he is often mistaken for Chris Young. However, the emerging star was raised away from the spotlight in Nicholasville, Kentucky, a small town outside Lexington.

He had a pretty ordinary childhood, except that his dad worked weekends instead of weekdays. When he would see his dad in concert, it was the equivalent of “Bring Your Kid to Work” day.

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ICE Nabs Illegal Migrant Charged with Raping Disabled Child After Release by Sanctuary Authorities

Cory Bernard Alvarez

Federal immigration authorities on Tuesday arrested an illegal migrant who had been charged with raping a disabled child and had previously been released by a sanctuary jurisdiction on low bond.

Deportation officers apprehended Cory Bernard Alvarez, a 26-year-old Haitian national living in the U.S. unlawfully, near his residence in Brockton, Massachusetts, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials confirmed in a press release. Alvarez has been wanted by the agency since he was charged in March for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl at a migrant housing location in Massachusetts, a state with “sanctuary” policies concerning ICE cooperation.

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Pinal County Supervisor Files Complaint with Arizona Attorney General Alleging Cheating in 2024 Primary Election, Cites ‘Hush Money’ Recording

Kevin Cavanaugh

Pinal County Supervisor Kevin Cavanaugh filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office asking for an investigation into possible election fraud in Pinal County’s primary election. He examined the ballot counting and believes six of the local races were artificially manipulated, and he also heard from a friend that a county elections IT employee confessed to taking hush money regarding the cheating. 

Cavanaugh ran for Pinal County Sheriff, and became suspicious after he lost in the primary. Looking into things, he said in a 19-page report he issued about the problems, “A recording exists of a discussion about hush-money payments being made to an employee inside elections and we have turned that over to outside law enforcement.” Cavanaugh provided The Arizona Sun Times with a copy of the recording he made and said that the FBI is investigating.

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Harris Took the Reins on Solving a Key Region’s Migrant Crisis — Nearly 1.8 Million People Crossed into U.S. Anyway

Kamala Harris in front of illegal immigrants at border wall (composite image)

Over a million migrants hailing from Central America have crossed illegally into the U.S. since Vice President Kamala Harris was tapped to address the illegal immigration crisis stemming from that region.

Since the launch of her presidential campaign, Harris and her allies have vehemently pushed back on the narrative that she was appointed to serve as “border czar” for the White House, arguing that she was only given a limited role addressing the “root causes” of illegal migration stemming from Central America. However, roughly 1.7 million people from the Northern Triangle region, which includes El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, flooded into the U.S. after she was tasked with mitigating the crisis.

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Commentary: Tim Walz and the Hidden Story of Twin Metals

Tim Walz

The media is now working overtime to rewrite the background of the Harris-Walz ticket. With all eyes shifting to Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, they have their work cut out.

Get ready for a new, refined version of Walz, where he is cast as a moderate, pro-worker Midwesterner — meant to balance out Kamala’s left-wing liberalism. But Walz is not that and American steelworkers, their families and the communities surrounding the Twin Metals Mine of Northeast Minnesota know this all too well.

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Ohio to Launch Statewide Human Trafficking Hotline Later This Year

Dave Yost

Ohio is expected to launch the first-ever statewide human trafficking hotline later this year, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced at his office’s fifth annual Human Trafficking Summit held in downtown Columbus last week.

The statewide hotline number – 844-END-OHHT (844-363-6448) – will “funnel incoming tips on suspected sex and labor trafficking directly to law enforcement,” according to Yost’s office.

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