(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) After the third special legislative session ended, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statement praising the accomplishments of the Republican-led legislature as conservative grassroots leaders pointed out that no real property tax relief was accomplished.
Instead, the Republican-backed legislature voted to add a constitutional amendment...
(Steve Bittenbender, The Center Square) A new Siena College poll that came out Tuesday shows mostly good news for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
However, there are some signs that the state’s new governor may be in for a tough year as she seeks a full term in the executive...
(T.A. DeFeo, The Center Square) New Jersey taxpayers are on the hook for $40 million in one-time payments for undocumented people living in the state.
Last week, the state Department of Human Services launched a new website for its so-called Excluded New Jerseyans Fund.
It targets those living in New Jersey...
Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-NC, unveiled the Let Me Travel America Act in a press release Wednesday.
The act would prohibit the Biden administration from mandating COVID vaccination for interstate travel, a possibility it has dangled as a threat while desperation grows over many Americans' refusal to submit to the jab.
Sen....
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) There will be at least 15 seats in the Texas Legislature with no incumbents in next year's election; 13 state representatives and two state senators have announced their intent to retire or seek higher office.
They include Chris Paddie, a Republican from House District 9,...
(Steve Bittenbender, The Center Square) The New York Joint Commission on Public Ethics met again on Tuesday, and despite even more new faces on the embattled public watchdog panel, the agency’s commissioners still could not generate enough votes to retract its approval of former Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s...
(Scott McClallen, The Center Square) Michigan's Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed two GOP elections bills last week.
The first-term Democrat has said she would reject any bills that she perceives as suppressing voting rights.
• SB 280 aimed to require the Board of State Canvassers to complete the canvass of an...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Multiple Republicans are running for New Mexico governor hoping to unseat Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in 2022.
Grisham is currently embroiled in a sex scandal after it was revealed last week that she allegedly paid $150,000 to cover up the inappropriate crotch-fondling of a...
(Kevin Bessler, The Center Square) As COVID-19 transmission rates fall in Illinois, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said his mask mandate may come to an end before the holidays.
At a COVID-19 briefing Tuesday, Pritzker said lifting the mask mandate before Thanksgiving is an important marker for his administration.
“We have three holidays...
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced a bill this week to transfer migrant detention facilities from border towns to ritzy areas where “Democrat elites host their cocktail parties,” such as Martha’s Vineyard.
"President Biden and Democrats need to step up to defend our southern border and support our heroic Customs and...
The campaign of Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., paid her daughter more than $80,000 this past year, according to campaign-finance records.
The records show that Waters’s re-election campaign paid her daughter, Karen Waters, a cumulative $74,000 in donor cash through September 2021. This last quarter alone, Waters’ campaign paid Karen more...
According to Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who is running for reelection in 2022, has hired a new chief of staff and plans to announce endorsements of 2022 candidates in an effort to make herself "a national voice for the America First movement."
There’s...