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Report Shows Rapid Growth in Ky. Nonpublic Education Enrollment
(Steve Bittenbender, The Center Square) – It’s back-to-school time across Ky., and a report released Wednesday shows more kids are going away from public schools.
According to EdChoice Kentucky, nearly 98,000 students attended a nonpublic school in the 2021-22 academic year. That number has grown by more than 20,000 since...
Post-Roe, Hutchinson Proposes $30 Million Medicaid Expansion for Pregnancy, Foster Care
(Merrilee Gasser, The Center Square) - Ark. Gov. Asa Hutchinson is proposing a $30 million Medicaid expansion to cover pregnancy and foster care programs.
The Gov. said Tuesday he is asking for legislative support for several initiatives that will increase spending at the Department of Human Services and the Arkansas...
W. Va. Declares State of Emergency for Jail Staff Shortage
(Tyler Arnold, The Center Square) – W. Va. Gov. Jim Justice is taking executive action to address the state’s staffing shortage in correctional facilities and criticizing the General Assembly for failing to address these issues during the regular session earlier this year.
To alleviate the shortages, the governor declared a...
Critics Blame Union for Calif. Antifa Teacher’s Massive $190K Payout
(Madison Hirneisen, The Center Square) – Reports that a Calif. school teacher who was aligned with Antifa was paid $190,000 to resign this year are sparking outrage, leading critics to say it reveals the strength of California’s teacher unions on public education in the state.
Information obtained by the Sacramento Bee revealed...
N.Y. Most Restrictive in U.S. on Citizen Political Engagement
(Steve Bittenbender, The Center Square) – A first-of-its-kind report examining how states restrict speech on government graded N.Y. worst of all.
The Institute for Free Speech ranked all the states on 10 factors, and N.Y. received a grade of 50% or higher on just two – false statement laws and...
Nancy Pelosi Claims Inflation Bill Will Appease ‘Mother Earth’
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Cali., made some comments about the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act, claiming that the climate aspects of the bill will appease "Mother Earth."
The act itself is set to give $350 billion into climate change policies and environmental justice issues, The Daily...
FBI Report on Fatal Movie Shooting May Mean Trouble for Alec Baldwin
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A forensic report released by the FBI has concluded that the revolver that was used in the fatal shooting on the set of the movie 'Rust' could not have been fired without pulling the trigger.
According to The Daily Wire, the report has come out in...
New York Under Five Different States of Emergency
Gun violence, an increasing problem, is one of five states of emergency most New Yorkers have been living under for months, and in some cases more than a year.
Others statewide are for COVID-19, a health-care staffing shortage, and monkeypox. The fifth is local to the five counties of New York City for an...
Arizona Parents Arrested Trying to Get in Locked-Down School
(Headline USA) Police arrested three Arizona parents, shocking two of them with stun guns, as they tried to force their way into a school that police locked down Friday after an armed man was seen trying to get on campus, authorities said.
The parents were arrested as they tried to...
San Francisco Spends 4 years, $20K on a Trash Can
(Headline USA) What takes four years to make and costs more than $20,000? A trash can in San Francisco.
That costly, boxy bin is among six trash cans hitting San Francisco's streets this summer in the city's long saga in search of the perfect can. Overflowing trash cans are a...
Ariz. Filling U.S.-Mexico Border Wall Gap This Weekend
(Tom Joyce, The Center Square) – Ariz. Gov. Doug Ducey issued an Executive Order on Friday this week directing the Ariz. Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to fill the gaps in the Yuma border wall starting immediately.
"Arizona has had enough. We can't wait any longer. The Biden administration's...
Va. to Soon Release Guidelines on ‘Sexually Explicit’ Material in Education Law
(Tyler Arnold, The Center Square) – Now that the public comment period has come to a close, the Va. Department of Education will soon finalize its guidance on a new law that allows parents to opt their children out of sexually explicit coursework.
Per the law, local school boards must...
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