Day: June 5, 2026

Commentary: Violent Crime Drops as More Americans Pack Heat

RealClearWire
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Alessandra Coote was walking on a trail with her 2-year-old daughter and dog two-and-a-half years ago when a man began yelling at her and threatened to kill her dog. When the petite single mom made it back to her Utah home, she decided she needed a firearm for protection.

A few months later, while living in what she described as a “shady part of town,” a homeless man threatened her. After that encounter, she began regularly carrying a firearm under Utah’s Constitutional Carry law.

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Commentary: Gray Market GLP-1 Medications Put Lives at Risk, Especially in the Latino Community

Star News Contributor
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The obesity crisis sweeping across the United States is profound. However, with the advent of GLP-1 medications, Americans have a real chance to combat chronic illnesses like heart disease and other obesity-related complications. While GLP-1 medications are incredibly effective, patients need to make sure they are getting the real FDA-approved version and not a counterfeit, copycat or illicit compounded material, which could jeopardize patient health and safety.  

Unfortunately, between non-FDA approved compounded versions, aggressive digital marketing campaigns of GLP-1s that might appear to be FDA approved, but really aren’t and an illicit and counterfeit market of drugs coming across the border that oftentimes contain active pharmaceutical ingredients from China that are mislabeled, aren’t intended for humans (e.g. made for animals), have major safety violations and countless other issues endangering patient safety. 

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Commentary: FCC Decision Holds Monopoly Utilities Accountable

Star News Contributor
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Tennessee has received $813 million in federal taxpayer money to expand broadband access across our state under the Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment Program (BEAD). Nationwide, the federal government is dispensing nearly $43 billion across all 50 states and six territories. 

When Governor Bill Lee took office in 2019, 20 percent of Tennesseans lacked high-speed broadband internet – including the Governor at his farm. A few months ago at the AI Summit in Nashville, Tennessee Economic and Community Development Commissioner and Deputy Governor Stuart McWhorter estimated that less than two percent of Tennesseans currently lack access to broadband. The gap has seriously been closed. 

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