Michael Bastasch The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief told reporters the agency “did its job” when asked how the Obama administration handled the ongoing water crisis in the city of Flint, Mich. “EPA did its job but clearly the outcome was not what anyone would have wanted,” Gina McCarthy told reporters while at an…
Juliegrace Brufke Lawmakers appropriated $310 billion federal dollars to expired programs authorized under 256 separate laws for fiscal year 2016, a Friday report from the Congressional Budget Office shows. The government scorekeeper said the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and related agencies spent just less than $66 million taxpayer dollars on programs that had not…
Ethan Barton Including $1.3 million for shrimp-on-treadmill research, National Science Foundation officials spend billions of unchecked dollars every year with little to no public accountability. The agency awarded nearly $6.7 billion in research grants in 2015, according to USAspending.gov. Yet, publicly available details are limited without filing a Freedom of Information Act request. Even then, there are…
Blake Neff Flint, Michigan’s lead-contaminated water is grabbing headlines around the country, but a critical part of the city’s desperate situation is being overlooked: The role of costly public pensions. The immediate cause of Flint’s crisis is obvious. In April 2014, Flint stopped using Detroit’s water system and start drawing water from the Flint River for…
By Lina Bryce A 12-year-old girl trusted her instincts to help save another girl’s life, but her instincts would land her a suspension from her school and a month in an alternative school. Indiyah Rush, is a 7th grade honor roll student who happens to know how frightening an asthma attack might be, being dependent on…
First published on PennLive.com: If I had a dollar for every time a Baby Boomer rolled their eyes and scoffed at a Millennial, I may have enough money to start paying off the ridiculous national debt they’ve incurred. I was sitting in my local coffee shop one day and kept feeling the glares of people around…
Blake Neff The country’s most ambitious school choice program has been put on hold and potentially stopped permanently after a Nevada judge ordered the state to halt its implementation, just weeks before it was set to begin. In 2015, Brian Sandoval signed the ambitious law that allows any parent with a child who spent at…
12-year-old Ciara Meyer, of Perry County, Pennsylvania, was fatally shot by Constable Clarke Steele while being served an eviction order on January 11th. The bullet, meant for Donald Meyer, 57, Ciara’s father, struck the young girl who was behind him. According to PennLive.com: When the constable arrived at the apartment building, police said, Meyer opened the…
A new undercover video that is part of a series on Common Core shows a sales executive from Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt and others from the educational publishing industry candidly remarking that their industry is “all about the money” and not educating children. The Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt executive actually cackles that she “hates kids” before confirming that he industry…
Ethan Barton A definitive explanation for what caused the Gold King Mine disaster may never be known if the Environmental Protection Agency is not investigated just as a private company responsible for the calamitous spill would be, according to a former enforcement agent. The EPA accepted blame for the Aug. 5, 2015, leak that poisoned…