Cheryl Geidner figured council members in Volant, a tiny borough north of Pittsburgh, would adopt a preliminary year-end budget despite no discussions at public meetings on the proposed financials. She never figured they’d raise property taxes by 57%. “There had never been a mention of that,” said Geidner, a property …
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Funding for the Boston Police Department’s investigative unit is stalled after Democrats voted down the roughly $3.4 million in new funding as crime in the city surges. Last week, half of the city’s council members voted against funding the Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) – opposing the city’s progressive Democrat …
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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum called a special session Tuesday of the Republican-controlled Legislature to address a major budget bill struck down by the state Supreme Court last month, leaving a giant hole in state government operations lawmakers are rushing to fill. The special session will convene Monday. Burgum’s executive …
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The head of the Universities of Wisconsin system declined to reveal what the school’s regents discussed in a closed meeting Tuesday, after the collapse of a contentious deal with Republican lawmakers that would have required campuses to slash diversity positions and scrap an affirmative action program at UW-Madison in exchange …
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On her last day on the job, North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood pleaded guilty Friday to two misdemeanors for misusing a state-issued vehicle for personal activities. Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway sentenced Wood to 12 months of unsupervised probation on the counts, news outlets reported. Wake District …
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Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles offered no comment on President Donald Trump’s call to enforce the death penalty against Decarlos Brown Jr., the suspect accused of an unprovoked fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail line. “The animal who so violently killed the beautiful young lady from Ukraine, …
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HAMPTON ROADS, Va. – The scandal over Virginia Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones’ texts envisioning the murder of a rival overshadowed the state’s top-of-the-ticket race as Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Abigail Spanberger descended on Jones’ backyard in Hampton Roads, Virginia, for their gubernatorial bout Thursday. Earle-Sears — who …
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Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger’s campaign store continues to sell merchandise co-branded with the rest of the statewide Democratic ticket – which includes scandal-plagued attorney general nominee Jay Jones. The store, accessed by Fox News Digital on Wednesday morning, still markets a “Spanberger-Hashmi-Jones logo tee” shirt for $25 and …
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Students for Life of America wants to make Charlie Kirk’s birthday a national holiday. “It should be a national holiday, the Charlie Kirk Free Speech Day, where, across the country, we recognize that even if you disagree with others on a college campus or in the workplace, that as Americans, …
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It was less town hall talk and more kung fu theater. A local election candidate is making waves for a bizarre protest at a township meeting this week when he dressed up in martial arts gear and unleashed a series of flying kicks and punched through several of his own …
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