SYNDICATION

(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) School districts across the country are spending federal COVID-19 relief money on bonuses to employees, saying their employees earned it for their work during the pandemic. The bonuses vary from district to district, ranging from $250 to more than $20,000 per employee. Flint Public Schools in...

(Robert Bryce, RealClearWire) The hype about wind and solar energy keeps colliding with the hard reality of land-use conflicts. Nowhere is that more obvious than in Ohio, where 41 townships have rejected or restricted the expansion of wind and/or solar projects since last November. In addition, at least eight Ohio...

(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClearWire) A non-profit that runs a New York City-funded homeless shelter couldn’t say how it spent almost $2.4 million in funding over three years. The organization, the Institute for Community Living, received the funds from the city’s Department of Homeless Services, which “did not complete required expenditure reviews,”...

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Some law enforcement groups and police experts are blaming rising violent crime on a “toxic trio,” pointing the finger at anti-police rhetoric, lax prosecutors and the “defund the police” movement. “Defaming and defunding police has cops running for exits, as violence surges and we need...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis has outraised other governors running for reelection in the United States. As of Sept. 2, his campaign had raised $166,578,634, Transparency USA reports. His top donor was the Republican Governors Association, which gave $17.35 million. DeSantis is running for his second term...

(Christian Wade, The Center Square) Fresh off her pledge to leave the Democratic Party, former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is planning a trip to N.H. to stump for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Don Bolduc. Bolduc said Thursday that Gabbard, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, will be visiting the Granite State to...

(Steve Bittenbender, The Center Square) A federal circuit judge on Wednesday issued a temporary stay to an injunction issued last week by a lower court regarding N.Y.’s recently passed concealed carry gun law. The ruling by U.S. Circuit Judge Eunice C. Lee means that the complete law will remain in...

(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) Joe Biden's dedication of Colorado's Camp Hale as a national monument is a "disgrace" to the ancestors of the Ute Indian Tribe, members of the tribe said. Biden used the Antiquities Act to designate the Camp Hale Continental Divide National Monument on Tuesday. The 1906 Act...

(Headline USA) Radical climate cult activists threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery on Friday to protest fossil fuel extraction, but caused no damage to the glass-covered painting. The group Just Stop Oil, which wants the British government to halt new oil and gas projects, said activists...

(Headline USA) Oregon is typically known as a breeding ground of West Coast leftism, where Democrats are easily elected and a Republican hasn't served as governor since the early 1980s. But with an unusually competitive three-way contest for governor, the Democratic candidate's success is hardly a guarantee this year. As...

(Headline USA) A federal judge is set to again consider the fate of a program that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen last year declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program illegal. Last week,...

(Headline USA) A carjacking victim died after being dragged along with the vehicle allegedly driven by a homicide suspect who was fleeing Thursday, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Detectives from the department’s Gang and Narcotic Division were conducting surveillance on 7th Avenue around 5 p.m. Thursday and spotted a murder...