A judge on Monday fined former President Donald Trump for violating a gag order in his New York hush money case for a tenth time. A plan for school vouchers in Pennsylvania emerged from hibernation on Tuesday. Wisconsin Republican lawmakers want to know exactly what diversity, equity and inclusion is doing in state government and what it is costing. California Governor Gavin Newsom took to the top of Golden Gate Bridge to share the claim that California had hit an "unprecedented" tourism spendin...
May 10, 2024•48 min•Ep. 30
Several Republican attorneys general have sued over the Biden administration’s Title IX rule change, arguing it is illegal. More states are expected to follow. Tennessee school staff are now eligible to concealed carry firearms at school if they have met the criteria and gained proper approval. Officials at Columbia finally gave the green light for the New York Police Department to enter a recently seized building, resulting in dozens of arrests. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a series of bills ...
May 03, 2024•48 min•Ep. 29
A Jewish Yale student was reportedly stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag during a pro-Hamas protest on campus over the weekend, the latest incident highlighting the ongoing tensions on college campuses since the Hamas terror group attacked Israel Oct. 7 and ignited an ongoing war. California seized over one million fentanyl pills just last week, more than was seized in all of February, highlighting how much smuggling of drugs and illegal immigrants has shifted to California since Texas st...
Apr 26, 2024•48 min•Ep. 28
The federal government loses up to $521 billion a year to fraud, according to a first-of-its-kind estimate from a Congressional watchdog. The Arizona State Legislature did not repeal an abortion law created in 1864 banning nearly all abortions on Wednesday for the second week in a row. However, the Senate did begin the process on a new bill Wednesday. As tensions continue to rise in the Middle East, the U.S. House revisits the subject of funding for Israel. The SAFE-T Act is again making headlin...
Apr 19, 2024•48 min•Ep. 27
A coalition of states has filed a legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s latest executive effort to forgive a portion of Americans' student loan debt. Norfolk Southern reached a $600 million settlement in a class action lawsuit filed after a toxic train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. Consumer prices continued to rise at an elevated rate in March, according to newly released federal inflation data. According to an audit, California is not sufficiently tracking homelessness progra...
Apr 12, 2024•48 min•Ep. 26
The federal government reported hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in improper payments last fiscal year and trillions over the last two decades. Kansas City’s professional football and baseball teams promised to stay in Jackson County if a 40-year sales tax to pay for stadiums was approved on Tuesday, but voters rejected the plan. The number of Chinese nationals illegally entering the U.S. – primarily single, military age men – has skyrocketed under the Biden administration. Both of Wisco...
Apr 05, 2024•48 min•Ep. 25
Americans want states to have a role in stopping the flood of illegal immigration, which comes as the federal government and Texas grapple over who has the right to secure the southern border amidst the ongoing crisis there. The closure of the Port of Baltimore caused by the ship collision that collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge will likely have a greater impact on the local economy, but the ultimate strain may be on increased and longer ground transport, according to supply chain experts. A...
Mar 29, 2024•48 min•Ep. 24
Former President Donald Trump is narrowly beating President Joe Biden in a head-to-head faceoff going into November, a new national poll shows but third party candidates could increase that margin for Trump. Passing the the bar exam will no longer be a requirement for becoming a lawyer in Washington state, the state Supreme Court ruled in a pair of orders. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a case evaluating how the federal government censored Americans’ speech online, especia...
Mar 22, 2024•48 min•Ep. 23
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday confirmed that a smuggling organization working with the terrorist organization ISIS is funneling criminals through the U.S. border. Legislation dubbed by some as the "natural gas ban bill" and a " hot mess " by Lt. Gov. Denny Heck last week, passed the Washington State Legislature early Wednesday morning. President Joe Biden's budget proposal seeks to set aside billions of dollars to push progressive gender, sexuality and race ideology at home and around ...
Mar 15, 2024•48 min•Ep. 22
Biden gave the State of the Union address this week. As pay-to-play accusations fly around California's fast food minimum wage exceptions, the state legislature considers new exceptions. After Super Tuesday Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican primary race. The Chicago Teachers Union is gearing up for collective bargaining talks with the city. A study looking at equitable grading reforms raised questions about which reforms actually help students. And as the yearly income to comfortably aff...
Mar 08, 2024•48 min•Ep. 21
This week on The Center Square Radio Hour, we look at where the election stands heading into Super Tuesday. We get an update on Tennessee's case against the NCAA and their Name, Image, and Likeness rules. We head down to the Texas border where President Joe Biden and Former President Donald Trump both held press conferences on Thursday. We head west to California where we hear some staggering numbers on the quantity of fentanyl seized by the California National Guard in the last year. We take a ...
Mar 01, 2024•48 min•Ep. 20
On this week's episode of The Center Square Radio Hour, the rise of pro-Palestinian protests on U.S. university campuses often feature protesters calling for violence against Jews, leaving Jewish students feeling unsafe and frustrated by the lack of response from school administrators and federal officials. Denver’s public school system has been taking in as many as 250 new students a week since the new year, which it attributes to the increase in the number of migrants arriving in the city. Jam...
Feb 23, 2024•48 min•Ep. 19
In its second vote attempt in exactly a week, the U.S. House on Tuesday night impeached Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who becomes the first sitting cabinet member to be impeached in U.S. history. The executive director of the Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council says the overall revenue picture for the state is “pretty good," but the elephants in the room as Dave Reich began his revenue forecast presentation Wednesday morning were the state Depar...
Feb 16, 2024•48 min•Ep. 18
President Joe Biden won't be charged with a crime for his handling and sharing of classified documents, but the special counsel report accompanying the decision raises questions about his memory. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to sell 50 million shares of Amazon stock, which would have cost him hundreds of millions of dollars had he not moved out of Washington state. The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday against impeaching U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayor...
Feb 09, 2024•48 min•Ep. 17
The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security voted along party lines early Wednesday to advance two articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Citing crime and robberies of workers, Kaiser Permanente directed its employees at its downtown Oakland headquarters to stay in their buildings for lunch. The world is awaiting President Joe Biden’s response to a drone attack in Jordan last weekend that left three U.S. service members dead and more than ...
Feb 02, 2024•48 min•Ep. 16
Former President Trump won the Republican primary in New Hampshire, and President Biden won the Democratic primary on a write-in campaign since a conflict about when the primary should be held led to Biden not appearing on the ballot. Nearly 4,500 car dealers from across the country have signed onto a letter urging President Biden to slow down on his proposed electric vehicle mandate. There have been several developments in the dispute between Texas and the Biden administration over the southern...
Jan 26, 2024•48 min•Ep. 15
Former President Donald Trump dominated the Iowa Caucuses Monday evening, leaving little room for his opponents to forge a path forward and make the pitch they are viable candidates. A new national poll finds that most likely U.S. voters don't think former President Donald Trump should be removed from primary ballots – unless he's convicted of insurrection-related charges stemming from the 2021 protests at the U.S. Capitol. The migrant crisis in Illinois is prompting some policymakers around the...
Jan 19, 2024•48 min•Ep. 14
A subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing this week on the impacts of "woke" programs on military recruitment and moral. The New Mexico Supreme Court held a hearing on the case against Governor Lujan Grisham's executive order banning guns in certain public places. The Center Square's Voter's Voice poll shows Nikki Haley pulling ahead of Ron DeSantis with the Iowa caucuses right around the corner. In California, the state expanded it's state subsidized health coverage, Me...
Jan 12, 2024•48 min•Ep. 13
The Iowa Caucus is coming up in less than two weeks. The Denver Mayer Mike Johnston says the city will spend $180 million on migrant services in 2024. Former Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan asked to delay his trial. As the year ended, the U.S. national debt surpassed $34 trillion. A controversial new Title IX rule about transgender athletes is now expected in March. Read more on these stories: - Denver to spend $180M on migrants in 2024, mayor calls it 'unsustainable' - Prosecutors...
Jan 05, 2024•48 min•Ep. 12
The Michigan Supreme Court has refused to hear a case that would have attempted to ban Donald Trump from being on the state's 2024 presidential primary ballot. Former President Donald Trump is leading President Joe Biden in a head-to-head matchup poll in several swing states, including Arizona. TikTok has clarified that videos promoting academic dishonesty violate its community guidelines and will be removed. Meta, which owns Instagram, did not respond to Chalkboard’s request for comment on its ...
Dec 29, 2023•24 min•Ep. 11
The Colorado Supreme court ruled that Former President Trump cannot appear on the 2024 ballot because he engaged in insurrection. Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs ordered National Guard troops to the southern border. Let's Go Washington is accusing three other organizations in Washington State of running an intimidation campaign against their signature drive. EV charging stations are at risk for hacking. A Jewish family refused a settlement with a Connecticut public school that would have required t...
Dec 22, 2023•48 min•Ep. 10
A federal watchdog report shows abortion advocacy groups received nearly $2M between 2019 and 2021. Cities in California are taking different approaches to the homelessness crisis. The U.S. House of Representatives voted to formalize the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Senators from Illinois are proposing allowing non-citizens to serve in the U.S. military. U.S. student math scores from the Programme of International Student Assessment are the lowest they have ever been. The Federa...
Dec 15, 2023•48 min•Ep. 9
Updates in the House Oversight Committee's investigation into the Biden family's business dealings, as well as an indictment against Hunter Biden in California alleging tax evasion. In Washington state, a former state employed economist alleges he was encouraged to hide his findings about the impact of the carbon auction on gas prices. In Wisconsin, teacher unions are challenging Act 10 in the state Supreme Court. In Illinois, several cases against the state's ban on certain guns are working the...
Dec 08, 2023•48 min•Ep. 8
There were a few developments in the House inquiry into the Biden family's business dealings this week. In Washington state, a Ballotpedia analysis showed how both campaign financing before elections and court decisions after in the non-partisan state supreme court lean heavily progressive. A new Biden administration rule that ties funding for free and reduced lunches to progressive transgender bathroom policies has gone into effect. In Pennsylvania, one state lawmaker is looking to divest state...
Dec 01, 2023•48 min•Ep. 7
In this week's abbreviated Thanksgiving addition of The Center Square Radio Hour, the House impeachment inquiry into President Biden and his family's overseas business dealings continues with more subpoenas and questions about classified documents the President had in his possession from his days as Vice President. A new report from Gallup and Learning Heros shows that 80% of parents report their students receiving B's or better despite a majority of students failing to meet grade expectations i...
Nov 22, 2023•24 min•Ep. 6
The U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing on Wednesday about a number of potential threats to national security. A defense attorney in the Com-Ed trials in Illinois said the prosecution is seeking life sentences for the four defendants convicted of corruption charges related to former Speaker Madigan. Pennsylvania State Troopers have seen significant gains in applications since the state removed its college credit requirement. California Governor Gavin Newsom claimed in a press report tha...
Nov 17, 2023•48 min•Ep. 5
The House Oversight Committee issued subpoenas for President Biden's family. Two schools in northern California are adopting a costly anti-racism leadership program. The Center Square's latest Voters' Voice poll shows Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley outperforming Former President Trump in head to head match ups with President Biden. Automakers are hitting the breaks on some EV production projects. A Michigan school district made changes to their sex education policy which has some worried about par...
Nov 10, 2023•48 min•Ep. 4
Officials testified before Congress confirming the real risk of terrorist elements crossing the U.S. border illegally. Pennsylvania ranks in the bottom 10 for spending on veterans. The UAW reached a deal with the last of the big three automakers, General Motors. The real cost per gallon equivalent to fuel an EV is much higher than common estimates according to a new study by Texas Public Policy Foundation. Leaders of the Oakland Education Association came out in support of Hamas. New home sales ...
Nov 03, 2023•48 min•Ep. 3
Republicans in the House of Representatives chose Mike Johnson as the new Speaker. The Pittsburgh school board voted on whether to higher a consultant to provide workshops anti racist math education. The 2023 fiscal year deficit was $1.7 trillion. Arrest rates have declined across the country over the past ten years. The House subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education held a hearing on controversial books in school libraries. And builder sentiment fell to its lowest le...
Oct 27, 2023•48 min•Ep. 2
The search for a new Speaker of the House continued this week. Crime in California went up last year while arrests went down. Many major cities made changes to police departments after 2020, and some are reversing course. The war in Israel has renewed concerns about terrorism in the U.S., and the Biden Administration's handling of the border. ACT scores fell follow a six year trend in declining scores. The dysfunction in Congress has economic impacts.
Oct 20, 2023•48 min•Ep. 1
