(The Center Square) – Tennessee collected $74.2 million less than the budgeted estimate in taxes and fees in April. That makes the state $494.2 million short of the budgeted estimates for the fiscal year, which runs through July on an accrual basis. The April collections topped $3 billion but were down less than half of […]
(The Center Square) – The Illinois legislature has approved changes to the state’s strict Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), but some say they didn’t go far enough. Currently, a company that violates BIPA’s protections is subject to damages for each instance of the collection of an individual’s biometric data without a person’s consent. The highest […]
(The Center Square) – Overlap and duplication cost taxpayers billions, according to a new report from a Congressional watchdog. The U.S. Government Accountability Office’s annual report identified opportunities to save billions of dollars by reducing overlap, duplication and fragmentation across the federal government. The report outlines 112 measures that Congress and federal agencies could take […]
Election Day is less than six months away and voters have a familiar choice of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Unless it’s The Godfather Part II, sequels generally never really live up to the original. While the main attraction looks like a 2020 repeat on the surface, the star players are competing in a […]
Israel‘s military has returned to northern Gaza to take on Hamas several months after claiming to have dismantled the group in the area. Israeli military spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said on Jan. 8, the army has “completed the dismantling of Hamas’s military framework in the northern Gaza Strip,” and yet he told AFP on Friday, […]
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is picking a very public fight with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) over a bill to compensate radiation victims in his home state of Missouri. The freshman senator, a loud critic of Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), is not known for holding his tongue when it comes to leadership. But he’s been […]
Of all 50 states, one surprisingly far surpasses the others in the percentage of registered independent voters: Massachusetts. In Massachusetts, a typically Democratic-leaning state, 62% of all registered voters are independents as of November 2023, outnumbering both major political parties. Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 3-1 ratio; nearly 30% of voters are registered Democrats […]
China’s counterintelligence officers have “uncovered multiple espionage cases in the aerospace sector,” according to the regime’s spy agency. “Certain countries regard our nation as a major competitor in the space field and spare no effort to contain and suppress us,” China’s Ministry of State Security agency said Friday on social media, citing the cases as […]
The discovery of bird flu virus particles in the commercial milk supply has reignited public interest in the century-long debate over pasteurizing milk. Sales of raw milk, or milk that has not undergone the heat treatment process to kill harmful bacteria, have spiked in recent weeks since the Department of Agriculture announced in March that […]
The Air Force is promoting a policy shift that effectively goes against more than a hundred years of precedent, and is facing significant opposition to it. The crux of the policy change is that the relevant Air National Guard units would be folded into the U.S. Space Force, but governors are the heads of their […]
