State agencies within Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration have either stalled or refused to release records that could show how Californians could save money on their utility bills. A recent report by the California Legislature’s top financial and policy advisor showed Californians pay the second highest utility prices in the country, and those rising rates have […]
After guards at the Marcy Correctional Facility in central New York beat a handcuffed prisoner to death late last year, Gov. Kathy Hochul promised immediate reforms to turn the troubled prison around. One of her first directives was to install a new leader, Bennie Thorpe, who had recently run another correctional facility and had experience […]
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed an election reform bill aimed to speed up results on Election Day, saying the proposal would disenfranchise eligible voters. “This legislation effectively ends the Active Early Voting List, something that has nothing to do with faster election results, but disenfranchises voters by adding additional steps for the hundreds of […]
President Donald Trump’s first three and a half weeks back in the White House have been remarkable in both pace and success. The president entered office raring to go with a clear vision of where he intends to take the country and is enacting his agenda with unprecedented transparency and precision. This time around, our […]
More than half a million Marylanders who earn $500,000 or less per year would see their income tax bills go up under Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s proposed revenue plan — collectively assuming a large portion of the state’s efforts to close a historic budget gap, an analysis of the proposal shows. In January, Moore (D) […]
It was President Ronald Reagan who famously said, “as government expands, liberty contracts.” Like with so many other things, Reagan was ahead of his time with this commonsense observation. A vast unchecked bureaucracy is indeed a direct assault on individual liberty — and tens of millions of Americans are adversely affected by it each and […]
President Trump is bringing smart American common sense back to the federal government, and not a moment too soon. For far too long, a wave of radical left-wing policies, regulations and irrational bureaucratic “norms” have been allowed to fester in hopes of altering the country we know and love into something unrecognizable. But on Jan. […]
California Governor Gavin Newsom has officially been notified of an attempt to remove him from his position after an intent to recall petition reached the required number of signatures, Newsweek has learned. It comes after wildfires have ravaged Southern California, killing 29 people and destroying thousands of homes. Why It Matters California has suffered devastating […]
Despite Arizona facing a surge in crime and a lack of affordable housing in recent years, Gov. Katie Hobbs has, for the third year in a row, produced a budget focused on attacking the ability of families to access school choice. Her recently released budget plan seeks to tear down Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul promised a public “list” that would outline how New York would cooperate with federal immigration authorities under President Trump – but that list was never released. Hochul has dodged drawing any firm lines about working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies as anti-illegal immigration raids were unleashed across the […]
The day after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration detained 41 metro area illegal immigrants in a raid targeting Tren de Aragua — a Venezuelan gang Gov. Jared Polis called a “feature of (Aurora City Councilwoman) Danielle Jurinsky’s imagination” — presidential aspirant Polis decried in the strongest terms any suggestion that Colorado had become a “sanctuary […]
Dem Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Sunday vowed to “stand in the way’’ of certain Trump deportation policies, including those targeting “law-abiding’’ illegal migrants. “When we’re talking about violent criminals who’ve been convicted and who are undocumented, we don’t want them in our state,” Pritzker, 60, told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We want them out of the […]
I was chief of staff of the Maryland Department of Budget and Management from 2015 until 2023, so I know something about the budget situation that outgoing Gov. Larry Hogan left incoming Gov. Wes Moore. Gov. Moore has claimed he inherited a fiscal crisis. I can only conclude that the governor and those closest to […]
John Ratcliffe, President Trump’s exceptionally qualified nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said something that every American must be fully aware of at his confirmation hearing. “Numerous terrorist groups,” Mr. Ratcliffe testified, “and other non-state actors — some of which have even crossed our southern border — still pose a persistent threat to our people and our homeland.” […]
