Washington Examiner White House Reporter Haisten Willis joins Magazine Executive Editor Jim Antle to discuss the first trial of former President Donald Trump, what President Joe Biden‘s reelection campaign is doing to capitalize on his absence from the campaign trail, and how Biden has had a lot of support from union leaders but the Teamsters union […]
(The Center Square) – The Washington State Republican Party 2024 Convention saw delegates getting rowdy Friday inside the Spokane Convention Center as the morning session stretched into the scheduled lunch break. Angry supporters of gubernatorial candidate Semi Bird objected to the Candidate Committee’s report initially withdrawing the governor’s race from the endorsement process due to what was described […]
(The Center Square) – On the heels of Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s announcement earlier this month of $45 million in budget cuts, Denver is now set to approve spending $30 million over the next three years for stagehand services at city-owned theaters and arenas throughout the city. Johnston announced the Newcomer Program Strategy Plan for $45 million in […]
(The Center Square) – Lucky 13. To be fair, North Carolina’s economic pulse has hardly just arrived. The low point was just prior to 2011, and the crescendo from the Legislative Building on Jones Street this week was a report from the Financial Research Division estimating $1 billion in additional revenue. That’s a long way […]
(The Center Square) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed several health care-related bills during a Friday ceremony in Athens, including a measure to relax state requirements regulating health care facilities. The centerpiece of the bills the Republican governor signed was House Bill 1339, which reforms Georgia’s decades-old certificate of needs requirement. The measure, in part, shortens […]
(The Center Square) – Backers of three new initiatives to the people of Washington state have around eleven weeks to gather signatures, if they hope to qualify for the November ballot. “It’s a heavy lift,” said Washington State Republican Party Chair Jim Walsh, who is also a state representative from Aberdeen. “I went around the state […]
(The Center Square) – Colorado schools will receive $24 million in state money for one-time allocations to pay for the influx of new migrant students. House Bill 24-1389, signed into law by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday, will distribute state funds to school districts for “new arrival students” entering after the 2023-24 “pupil enrollment […]
Congress is primed to pass a bill that will require TikTok, the immensely popular, Chinese-owned social media platform, to sell to an American company within one year or risk being banned in the United States. President Joe Biden promised to sign the legislation into law earlier this week, even as his 2024 reelection campaign has […]
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers union on Friday. Two previous attempts to join the union in the past few years had been soundly defeated. Friday’s vote, organized by the National Labor Relations Board, saw 73%, 2,628 people, vote in favor. Voter turnout was 83.5%. The vote was […]
This week’s White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden slapped with a pair of “Ds” by our graders who highlighted how ineffective he has been on the crisis in the Middle East. Biden told both Iran and Israel not to attack, and both did, making U.S. leadership look pointless. It was also a week […]