(The Center Square) – State assistance of another $227 million to western North Carolina in the recovery from Hurricane Helene is going forward, the veto override of a Senate bill completed Wednesday by the state House of Representatives. Passed 63-46 in the chamber on Nov. 19, the House was 72-46 in favor of the override […]
(The Center Square) – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he will protect non-violent, non-citizen migrants in the state. Earlier this week, President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan was in Chicago. Monday evening, he said if elected officials don’t get out of the way, they could be prosecuted. Wednesday, Pritzker downplayed those comments. “I’m open […]
(The Center Square) – Government attorneys are wrapping up their case with a focus on AT&T and former state Rep. Eddie Acevedo, D-Chicago, at the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and codefendant Michael McClain. Judge John Robert Blakey ruled Wednesday that Acevedo would be required to testify next Monday, despite questions […]
(The Center Square) – Sports wagering swelled North Carolina’s coffers by more than $14 million in November, second-best month of the first-year revenue generator. Estimated tax proceeds were $14,057,587, a 60.5% increase from October. The gross wagering revenue – amounts received by interactive sports wagering operators from sports wagers as authorized under state law, less […]
(The Center Square) – A federal judge ruled Wednesday that former state Rep. Eddie Acevedo, D-Chicago, is required to testify at the public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and codefendant Michael McClain. Judge John Robert Blakey denied defense attorneys’ motion to quash Acevedo’s subpoena Wednesday morning. Blakey said the court considered […]
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced a bill to move at least 30% of the Small Business Administration’s headquarters workforce nationwide. In a statement to the Washington Examiner, Ernst argued that moving employees closer to the businesses they serve would improve their work ethic. “If mom-and-pop shops had the work ethic of SBA bureaucrats, they would […]
President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he would commute roughly 1,500 sentences of people who served their sentence on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to more than three dozen pardons. Biden said the commutations, which was the most ever offered in a single day, to the sentences went to people who had […]
President-elect Donald Trump was named Time’s 2024 Person of the Year on Thursday. This follows a tradition since 2000 in which the candidate who wins the U.S. presidential election every fourth year becomes Time’s Person of the Year, with former President George W. Bush winning it twice in 2000 and 2004 and former President Barack Obama doing so […]
President Joe Biden’s past efforts to pardon specific groups of people en masse have fallen short of expectations, a reality the White House is declining to address in the waning hours of his presidency. Biden in 2022 and 2023 issued presidential proclamations designed to pardon “thousands” who were convicted in federal courts of simple marijuana […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) announced Tuesday that she would be appointing a lawyer heading multiple liberal 501(c)(4) dark money groups to sit as a district court judge. Following Whitmer’s announcement, Reid Felsing is set to take the bench at the 56A District Court in Eaton County, Michigan, effective Jan. 6, 2025, a position he will […]
