(The Center Square) – Three years into Texas’ border security mission, Operation Lone Star, a Texas sheriff is highlighting the successful efforts of his deputies, who have been involved in a multi-county operation committed to combating cartel-related crime. Retiring Jackson County Sheriff Kelly R. Janica was a founding member of an Operation Lone Star Task Force headed […]
(The Center Square) — PennDOT is noticing more Real IDs issued in the commonwealth — but expects only a quarter of residents to have them by the federal deadline in 2025. By February, 20.8% of Pennsylvania drivers opted in to REAL ID, about 2.1 million people. For May, the uptake rate has slightly improved to […]
(The Center Square) — A Florida nonprofit organization released a report on Wednesday identifying individual budget appropriations that did not undergo thorough scrutiny by lawmakers. Florida TaxWatch released its 2024 Budget Turkey Watch Report on Wednesday, which is an independent review of the state’s fiscal year 2024-25 budget. Former Florida lieutenant governor and Florida TaxWatch executive vice […]
(The Center Square) – Illinois legislators continue to consider tax increases on businesses heading into the final nine days of scheduled session. Conversations also continue about zeroing out Illinois’ grocery tax and whether local governments will get state taxpayer funds to offset losses to local coffers. Last week, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office told state agencies […]
(The Center Square) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp vetoed a measure that would bar foreign nationals from making political contributions. While such contributions are already prohibited by federal law, Senate Bill 368 would have mandated that agents of “foreign principals” register with the Georgia State Ethics Commission. In a veto statement, the Republican governor said some of […]
(The Center Square) – Starting their Wednesday off with doughnuts and red T-shirts, members of the Chicago Teachers Union rolled their way into Springfield to demand more state taxpayer funding. Only two of every 10 Black students can read at grade level, according to Chicago Public Schools data. During a news conference at the Illinois State Capitol, […]
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to a pair of debates ahead of the November election, and both camps are bragging they came out on top in the contest. Trump was pushing for debates against Biden, early and often, for most of the year, even before he had locked up the […]
The New York hush money trial against Donald Trump is entering day 18 of the historic first criminal proceedings against a former president, but legal experts say prosecutors have yet to identify the “other crime” needed to upgrade misdemeanor charges to a felony conviction. Trump’s former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen is set to take […]
When President Joe Biden threw down the debate gauntlet, former President Donald Trump quickly accepted the challenge. Whether this was the product of careful behind-the-scenes negotiations, as it appeared from how quickly the June CNN debate, in particular, came together, or Trump believing he could not look less eager to debate than Biden, the terms […]
Former President Donald Trump’s four criminal cases have created an unprecedented legal gauntlet for him to run before voters have a chance to decide if he should return to the Oval Office. While Democrats cheer what they see as long-overdue accountability for the former president, some legal experts have expressed concerns that the cases — […]
