(The Center Square) – Local governments across Wisconsin could soon lose their ability to raise a tax without asking voters first. Sen. Rob Hutton, R-Brookfield, this week introduced legislation to give voters a say on wheel taxes. “This doesn’t take away options from local governments, but it does require local officials to make their case directly […]
(The Center Square) – Another natural gas power plant is being built in Texas, this time in the Permian Basin in west Texas. It’s the largest capacity project to date through a Texas Energy Fund program. Competitive Power Ventures is building a 1,350 megawatt (MW) natural gas generation facility at CPV’s Basin Ranch Energy Center […]
(The Center Square) – Emails of a Rhode Island teacher for a year, and those including his use of the name Trump, plus his curriculum materials will cost a parent $117,130, says Barrington Public Schools. Nicole Solas’ lawyer, James McGlone of the Goldwater Institute’s pro-bono American Freedom Network, said public interest is such that these […]
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are set to host trick-or-treaters at the White House around 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. The event will go from 4 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and feature the president and first lady handing out candy to trick-or-treaters. BY THE NUMBERS: WHY TRICK-OR-TREATERS MAY BAG MORE GUMMY CANDY THAN […]
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha mocked Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) for claiming that former President Joe Biden was “one of the most successful presidents in the last century.” Newsom sat down for an interview with ABC News’s Jonathan Karl to defend Biden on Wednesday. As Newsom reaches the end of his term as California’s governor […]
Ryan Routh, the convicted would-be assassin of President Donald Trump, asked the Florida judge presiding over his case on Wednesday to place him in a state where assisted suicide is legal. The request comes over one month after a grand jury declared him guilty on all counts for attempting to kill Trump during the 2024 […]
Loudoun County Public Schools is facing new legal accusations that it retaliated against two high school boys who objected to a transgender classmate using the boys’ locker room, escalating a clash already drawing scrutiny from federal authorities. Attorneys for the boys and their families filed an amended complaint Wednesday in Virginia federal court that adds […]
The Trump administration has dramatically reduced the number of refugees it will admit into the country in the coming year, from 125,000 last year to 7,500 this year. The federal government published an announcement in the Federal Register on Thursday that disclosed it would cap refugee admissions at 7,500 in fiscal 2026, which began in […]
The Democratic leader of the Maryland Senate is facing pressure, ridicule, and even a call for his ouster from members of his own party after he torpedoed a bid to draw new congressional lines to combat national Republicans. Citing perceived legal and political risks, Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson informed state lawmakers this week that […]
Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday threw her support behind the state Democrats’ ballot measure to redraw California’s congressional map. Proposition 50, the ballot measure designed to approve the Democrat-led agenda to redraw California‘s congressional map, appears likely to pass in the special election next week based on polling data. Harris released a video of […]
