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Collin Anderson, WFB As president of the Maine Senate, Troy Jackson, now the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, cosponsored a bill sending millions of taxpayer dollars to a state academy…

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John SloanBy Lars MøllerWithin Western societies, there persist subcultures that treat institutions as resources to be harvested while simultaneously scorning the normative order those institutions sustain. 

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AuthorBy John PerryI have never forgotten the gift of that moment I spent with the real Dolly Parton.

Miami-based Armor Correctional Health Services has a long history of complaints of providing subpar care to inmates – and has even been convicted of felony abuse over the death of an inmate. Even though Florida law bars companies with such convictions from doing business with the state, the state has continued to contract with Armor […]
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New York became the first state in the nation to set up a workers’ compensation system in the wake of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The program covers medical bills and cash for recovery time for countless injured workers. But in recent years, the program’s benefits have quietly shrunk by over a third, according […]
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A popular grant program in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, is funded by gambling revenue from a local casino. With support from the Fund, reporters at Penn Live spent 19 months analyzing thousands of records, interviewing dozens of officials and grantees and building databases to understand who was requesting the money and where it was going. They […]
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When the FBI investigated the Cook County Sherriff’s Office for a ghost-payrolling scheme in 2022, agents uncovered evidence that a high-ranking official had been involved in misconduct years earlier – and was not disciplined, but promoted. The FBI found that the official had been robbed at gunpoint outside of an illegal gambling den and fired […]
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US NavyBy Julius SanksThe Navy has “suddenly” dropped a long-time vendor, The Sewing Box, for the Blue Angels’ distinctive uniforms, ending a 43-year relationship. 

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American Thinker AIBy Allan J. FeiferStrong men like Putin can seem admirable, but the societal costs are terrible, as citizens have no say in government, and the dictator can quickly destroy their country.