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Marya Dunning | February 27, 2024
After gobbling up federal funding through the COVID-era American Rescue Plan, Brookline, Massachusetts will be using the leftover pandemic aid…
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Brittany M. Hughes | October 6, 2023
  The American Library Association is celebrating “Banned Book Week” by instructing libraries and teachers on how to create tempting displays that…
Nick Kangadis | September 16, 2022
When is enough, enough? How much U.S. taxpayer money and U.S. military equipment — also the property of U.S. taxpayers — is it going to take to…
Brittany M. Hughes | March 29, 2021
Atlantic City taxpayers are spending nearly $40,000 to redo a Black Lives Matter street mural because it was confusing drivers and causing a traffic…
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Brittany M. Hughes | February 2, 2021
Polls show even pro-choice Americans don’t want their tax money used to pay for abortions - but that’s not stopping Biden and the Democrats from…
Brittany M. Hughes | January 28, 2021
A new Marist poll reveals public support for abortion restrictions continues to grow and taxpayers’ desire to pay for abortions is declining, even as…
Brittany M. Hughes | January 26, 2021
House Republicans are uniting against Democrats' efforts to repeal the Hyde amendment, a federal provision attached to spending bills that bans…
Brittany M. Hughes | November 25, 2019
The federal government is hard at work wasting millions in American tax dollars, including spending nearly $1 million on getting zebrafish addicted…
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Brittany M. Hughes | August 3, 2018
49-year-old Gerardo Valerio-Romero’s tab for cancer treatment has all but bankrupted the local jail in Utah, where he’s been charged with six counts…
Brittany M. Hughes | May 15, 2018
The City University of New York (CUNY) is partnering with a local Planned Parenthood affiliate to offer a full scholarship to one grad student who…
Brittany M. Hughes | April 17, 2018
Happy Tax Day! It's that wonderul day each year when Americans celebrate just how far into the calendar we have to work to pay off our debts to our…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | January 10, 2018
Remember the old film cliché of the hero driving through a southern town and being pulled over by a corrupt cop who says, “Boah! You know what town…