President Biden
Biden touts record, small businesses fire back(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris delivered remarks from the White House Monday touting the administration’s work to help small businesses, but many of… Read More
Illegal Immigration
Abbott tells Lightfoot to blame President Biden for ‘critical tipping point’(The Center Square) – In response to outgoing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blaming Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for illegal foreign nationals flooding the Windy City, he told her to call… Read More
Missouri Legislature
Missouri legislature faces Friday deadline to pass ‘transformative’ budget(The Center Square) – As the Missouri General Assembly faces Friday’s constitutional deadline to approve a budget, Senate leaders believe the 2024 fiscal year spending plan will be transformational. “I… Read More
Kansas, Race
Did Johnson County cancel an employee race training session to stop a commissioner from videoing it for the public to see?Charlotte O’Hara can empathize with a Kansas City-area teacher’s frustrations with “woke” training of public employees on matters of race. O’Hara, one of the few conservative members of the… Read More
Missouri Legislature, School Choice
Criticism over lawmaker’s flip-flop on open enrollment continues as Missouri Senate has two weeks to act on House bill(The Heartlander) — As the fate of a House-passed open enrollment bill is with the Senate, one Missouri lawmaker remains in hot water over his reversal on the issue. Missouri… Read More
DEI, Kansas
Texts appear to show collusion between Johnson County official, Gault Center staff to prevent transparency on race training(The Sentinel) — A series of text messages buried at the bottom of a 618 page document dump appear to show direct collusion between a Johnson County official and the… Read More
Banks
Is JP Morgan’s purchase of failed bank from FDIC a government bailout?(The Center Square) – The FDIC took over the embattled San Francisco bank First Republic and auctioned it off, with JP Morgan taking over as regulators hope to fend off… Read More
Missouri Legislature
House awaits Senate action in Republican-dominated Missouri legislature(The Center Square) – Missouri lawmakers ended the month of April as they started it – waiting. “Four weeks ago, at least, we forwarded a big package with multiple bills… Read More
Illegal Immigration
VIDEO: 8,700 human smuggling attempts stopped to date through Operation Lone Star(The Center Square) – Texas Department of Public Safety troopers working as part of Operation Lone Star have stopped over 8,700 human smuggling attempts since Gov. Greg Abbott launched the… Read More
Biden administration
Outrage continues over federal rule to charge higher fees to home buyers with better credit(The Center Square) – A new federal rule that charges higher fees to home buyers with good credit to help subsidize those with poor credit went into effect Monday. The… Read More
DEI, Education
Sources: Teacher isn’t lying in her op-ed that ‘white-shaming’ DEI curriculum in Kansas City-area schools is brewing ‘a toxic environment’Parents should “pull their kids” from schools that offer “destructive” racial equity curricula that portray whites as privileged oppressors, multiple sources in a Kansas City-area district say.This comes after a… Read More
Missouri Legislature
New Missouri law allows access to physical therapists without referral(The Center Square) – Missourians will be able to save time and money by accessing physical therapy services from qualified therapists without a referral under a bill signed into law… Read More
President Biden
Biden kicks off campaign at polling low point(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden announced earlier this week that he is running for president, but the latest polling data shows he is much less popular than when… Read More
Guns, Illinois
Federal judge blocks Illinois’ gun and magazine ban while case continues(The Center Square) – Illinois’ gun and magazine ban is on hold after a federal judge in the Southern District of Illinois ruled in favor of a preliminary injunction.The… Read More
China
Congress members want answers about Chinese ‘police stations’ in the U.S.(The Center Square) – In a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray, congressional members on the U.S. Select Committee on the Chinese Community Party expressed concerns about the… Read More
Education, Missouri State University
Watchdog renews call for probe of no-white-males-allowed program at Missouri State University after president claims no wrongdoingA civil rights organization has renewed its request for an investigation of Missouri State University and its no-white-males-allowed business boot camp, after the MSU president told reporters the institution… Read More
Courts, Missouri
Report: Missourians pay $800 to $1,700 annually for cost of civil lawsuits(The Center Square) – Missourians annually pay approximately $800 to $1,700 in consumer costs and lose an estimated 58,000 jobs due to excessive litigation, according to new research. Citizens Against… Read More
Biden administration, COVID-19
Arizona GOP appeals to U.S. Supreme Court to stop COVID-19 vaccine mandate(The Center Square) – The Arizona Legislature filed an emergency application to the Supreme Court over COVID-19 vaccine mandates on the federal level. The goal of wanting an… Read More
Banks, Uncategorized
Regulators knew SVB was in trouble since 2021, did not step in(The Center Square) – A closer look at the months leading up to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the second-largest bank collapse in history, shows that regulators saw the… Read More
Biden administration
Biden administration is indeed involved in a ‘sophisticated network’ of immigrant child smuggling, for which jail time is warranted, Hawley saysThe Biden administration is in fact the “middleman” in a child smuggling operation at the U.S border, for which someone needs to go to jail, says Sen. Josh Hawley. Whistleblower… Read More