Metro riders in Washington, D.C., are as happy with public transit as they’ve been in a decade, but not all is well in the capital’s underground stations. Despite high levels of satisfaction with the train system generally, safety remains a great concern as serious crime such as rape, robbery, and homicide on the Metro have […]
Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC) expressed his confidence in South Carolina’s voter registration system after a state lawmaker reported state agencies tried to register illegal immigrants to vote. Earlier this month, the governor requested that the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division investigate Republican state Rep. Adam Morgan’s claims the South Carolina Medicaid office had repeatedly sent […]
(The Center Square) – Inflation is still impacting families in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, according to a new Common Sense Institute report. The free-market think tank’s May inflation update analyzed different price increases from 2020, which determined that prices across the board are still significantly higher. Most notably, the report says that “typical” Arizona families would have […]
(The Center Square) – Proposed legislation targeting protestors is expected to get tweaks from the North Carolina House of Representatives, possibly before the Memorial Day holiday weekend. People wearing masks in public, and those blocking roads or emergency vehicles, are singled out in the bill passed by the Senate 30-15 this week. Critics have roared […]
(The Center Square) – The latest count of unhoused people living in King County reveals that homelessness in the region is at an all-time high. The King County Regional Homelessness Authority conducted both an unsheltered and sheltered point-in-time, or PIT, count in January, with results showing 16,385 people experiencing homelessness in King County. KCRHA released the PIT […]
(The Center Square) – Annual Census estimates released Thursday show Illinois’ largest cities continuing to lose population. Gov. J.B. Pritzker again denied the federal data. When asked why he thinks the state’s major cities are losing population, Pritzker said the state gained population and the annual estimates calculated by the U.S. Census Bureau are wrong. “The […]
(The Center Square) — Though dozens of states make their legislative sessions viewable live and on-demand, Pennsylvania stands out. It’s one of only a few states that offer a live-streaming option but doesn’t make the recordings publicly accessible online. Though residents can watch House sessions on YouTube after the fact, the same can’t be said […]
(The Center Square) – According to new state rankings, California ranks dead last in opportunity due to its high cost of living, says the U.S. News and World Report. USNWR’s report uses cost of living, economic opportunity, and equality to create its opportunity metric. California’s nation-worst cost of living was the main driver of the opportunity ranking, […]
President Joe Biden has turned the town red from all the regulatory tape his agencies have spit out this year. According to two new reports, Biden has gone around Congress to issue a record number of costly regulations in part out of concern that he might not win reelection and wants to cement in his […]
Democrats in Minnesota and President Joe Biden’s campaign for reelection are challenging former President Donald Trump’s claim that he can flip reliably blue Minnesota. Minnesota has not voted for a Republican for president since 1972. In 2020, Biden beat Trump in Minnesota by more than 233,000 (or 7 percentage points), and in 2016, former Democratic nominee […]
