Energy Secretary Chris Wright joined the call for Congress to pass meaningful reforms to the federal environmental approval process required to build energy and infrastructure projects, specifically encouraging reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act. Better known as NEPA, the 55-year-old law requires all federal agencies to consider and review the environmental effects of proposed […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met in Berlin on Monday with senior American and European leaders for the second consecutive day, in the United States’s latest attempt to end the Russia-Ukraine war. Zelensky spent roughly eight hours on Sunday and Monday in negotiations alongside President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, and […]

(The Center Square) – The Texas Education Agency is taking over three more public school districts: Beaumont ISD, Connally ISD and Lake Worth ISD. This brings the total to four this year and five overall. State law requires the TEA to take over failing school districts after a campus receives failing academic ratings for at […]

(The Center Square) – Small Business Advocacy Council President Elliott Richardson prides himself on tirelessly pushing the envelope when it comes to making life more bearable for Chicago small business owners. “Small businesses really could use a point person at City Hall to help them through the process,” Richardson told The Center Square. “If they’re […]