Tag: Drops

Tennessee House Drops Franchise Tax Refund To $813.5M

Image Credit: capitol.tn.gov The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – A bill to repeal and refund Tennessee’s franchise tax has two significant changes in the House. House Bill 1893 requires a list of companies receiving a portion of the $813.5 million refund to be named on the website of Tennessee’s Department of Economic and Community […]

Tennessee Unemployment Drops To 3.3%

Image Credit: Canva The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Unemployment in Tennessee dropped to 3.3% for February after a slight rise in the seasonally adjusted rate a month before. The rate is the same as in February 2023 and below the 3.9% rate nationally. The drop comes after increased unemployment rates in 93 of […]

Judge Drops Firearms Charges Against Illegal Alien – HotAir

“Laws? Where we’re going, we don’t need any laws.” Rather than a line from the script of a futuristic movie, that may now be an emerging legal concept in the courts of Illinois. This month, an Obama-appointed judge in the Northern District of Illinois dismissed illegal firearm possession charges against an illegal immigrant named Heriberto […]

NHS Drops Puberty Blockers as Gender Affirming Treatment – HotAir

Great Britain has been edging toward this moment for months, but the government has made it official: children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers as a treatment for gender dysphoria.  Period. End of story. Not gonna happen.  This is perhaps the most dramatic about-face in European medical treatments of so-called “transgender” children, as until […]

JK Rowling Drops a Truth Bomb – HotAir

Metaphorically, J.K. Rowling has been taking it on the chin for expressing her “gender-critical” views. She is the target of harassment; the actors who made their livings off her work have turned their back on her, and even librarians have called her work “unsafe.”  The odd thing is, Rowling isn’t criticizing transgenderism, as so many […]

Fani Willis Drops a Bombshell, But It is a Dud – HotAir

Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who has charged Trump and almost 20 others in a RICO case, appears to be in deep trouble over allegations that she is in and benefiting from a romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she hired to try the case. The controversy has been bubbling for a while now after […]

Mt. Juliet, After Beacon Lawsuit, Drops $100/Day Food Truck Fee

Image Credit: MtJuliet-Tn.gov The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – A central Tennessee community east of Nashville passed an amended food truck ordinance on Monday that will create an equal $100 annual registration fee for all vendors. Mt. Juliet’s amended ordinance came after the city was sued by food truck operators from outside of the […]