by Shannon Coan | Mar 30, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — From where Rosa Parks’ statue sits in National Statuary Hall, her likeness stares at a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. A couple of statues away from her sits Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens. There are more statues of...
by Zachary Kessel | Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Politics, State of the Union
WASHINGTON – While Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-Iowa) dinged President Joe Biden on issues salient to the American people like crime, education and inflation in the official GOP response to the State of the Union, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) took a different approach...
by Ali McCadden | Nov 16, 2021 | Immigration
WASHINGTON — Republican senators grilled Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, criticizing the department’s handling of migrants at the southern border as well as its handling of Afghan evacuees. Iowa Sen....
by Sylvan Lane | Mar 18, 2014 | Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON — It’s not that the House Republicans don’t want to pass immigration reform, they say. It’s just that they can’t right now. If you ask GOP lawmakers, they’ll tell you the time just isn’t right. The midterm elections are fast approaching. They don’t trust...
by Sylvan Lane | Feb 24, 2014 | Education, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Dayana Torres doesn’t like preaching to the choir. The 19-year-old president of Dreamers of Virginia, Torres is one of the leaders of an effort to allow undocumented immigrants who live in Virginia to pay in-state tuition at the state’s public...
