Former President Donald Trump railed against the “fake news” industry on Friday, claiming it used artificial intelligence that added extra pounds to images of him playing golf. Trump took to social media while Justice Arthur Engoron handed down a $355 million fine in New York, attacking the political Left, and showed three photos of himself […]
(The Center Square) – Massachusetts voters don’t like the idea of state officials using public funds to house migrants, according to a new poll. Over 50% of nearly eight hundred voters surveyed oppose using tax dollars to support newly arrived migrants, according to a recent poll conducted by the Fiscal Alliance Foundation. Over 65% of […]
(The Center Square) – Massachusetts could soon reach into Harvard University’s $50 billion endowment and take over $1 billion in taxes if two legislators get their way. The legislation proposed by Reps. Natalie Higgins, D-Leominster, and Christine Barber, D-Somerville, would impose a 2.5% excise tax on all private higher education institutions with over $1 billion […]
(The Center Square) – After Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro unveiled his $48.3 billion spending plan earlier this month, one key budget negotiator says the math used to balance the plan is dishonest and may require an income tax raise by 2028. It’s not unusual for lawmakers across the aisle to scrutinize the way a sitting […]
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s assembly speaker is not calling his proposal for medical marijuana dead, but he says it’s not going to happen this year. Speaker Robin Vos told reporters Thursday there are too many different views of marijuana to find a consensus on a strict-medical only plan. “I think we have now seen, unfortunately, […]
(The Center Square) – With thousands of Pennsylvanians dying from overdoses, Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Dave McCormick wants an aggressive policy to stop the international drug flow. “Our great commonwealth is under siege from this fentanyl crisis— and so is America,” McCormick said at a roundtable on fentanyl in Luzerne County. He praised the work […]
(The Center Square) — Pennsylvania’s total tax burden has gotten worse relative to other states, keeping residents more tax-burdened than the average American. A report from the Independent Fiscal Office found that Pennsylvania’s total taxes per capita ranked 19th overall at $6,710. While Pennsylvania fares better than New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware, it lags behind […]
EXCLUSIVE — Republican lawmakers are accusing the State Department of threatening to obstruct their investigation into “censorship” of companies in the United States. House Small Business Committee Republicans have continued to request grant records from the State Department’s Global Engagement Center for an inquiry into “government censorship and revenue interference of American small businesses by proxy,” […]
Officials at Texas public universities are quietly trying to implement diversity, equity, and inclusion programs after a statewide ban on the ideology took effect Jan. 1, according to hidden camera footage published this week. Undercover video captured by investigators from Accuracy in Media shows employees from multiple Texas universities admitting to finding “creative” ways to […]
A second wave of February’s three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,873 for the highest earners who retire at 70, will go out to retirees in four days. Retired seniors born on or between the 11th and 20th of their birth month will receive the second payment on Wednesday, Feb. 21, according to the […]
