California, Government Accountability
UNBELIEVABLE: California Democrats advance ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ to make investigating fraud illegal(The Heartlander)–California lawmakers are under fire after a committee advanced a bill to crack down on citizen journalists like Nick Shirley who expose government fraud. The measure, which… Read More
Abortion
New Mexico pro-life leaders unite to confront most permissive abortion state, seek to follow Iowa’s example(The Heartlander)–Pro-life leaders in New Mexico are forming a united coalition to defend life “from conception to natural death,” leaders said at a launch event at the University of… Read More
Iowa
Iowa GOP primary frontrunner for governor faces backlash over private school access comments(The Heartlander)–The front-runner in Iowa’s Republican gubernatorial primary is facing criticism for comments suggesting private schools participating in the state’s school choice program would need to accept all students,… Read More
Illinois
Illinois Senator says taxpayers fleeced by corrections department(The Center Square) – The Illinois Department of Corrections is facing questions over its failure to comply with state law while spending hundreds of millions of dollars on overtime. Read More
Elections, Missouri
Conservative advocacy group applauds voter ID and redistricting rules, rebukes voter registration decisionA Missouri political advocacy organization is praising recent rulings from the Missouri Supreme Court that uphold the state legislature’s authority to enact a new congressional redistricting map and preserve… Read More
Kansas City, Taxes
Trump official and congressman pay visit to Kansas City restaurant as tax refunds pour inOne of President Donald Trump’s cabinet members and a Missouri congressman visited a beloved family restaurant in Kansas City Monday to talk about how recent tax cuts have impacted small businesses. Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler and Republican Congressman Mark Alford, who represents Missouri's 4th district, visited Cupini’s – a family-owned Italian… Read More
DEI, Missouri
DEI book raises alarms in Missouri school districtA Missouri school district said it halted a fifth-grade teacher’s reading of a novel containing LGBTQ content after parental complaints, the district told Heartlander News in a statement. Read More
Health, Illinois
Illinois county voices opposition to new assisted suicide law(The Heartlander)–Officials in an Illinois county are pushing back against a new assisted suicide law that allows doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs to certain patients. The Effingham County… Read More
America
America’s Founders practiced faith, quoted Scripture, established nation on these virtues(The Heartlander)–“We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable…” To the American ear, this sounds incorrect, but “sacred and undeniable” was the original language Thomas Jefferson, whose birthday is Monday, used in the first… Read More
Biden administration, COVID-19
Biden officials knew about COVID-19 vaccine stroke risk(Daily Signal) – Drip, drip, drip. Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic, more details are being revealed concerning the failure of federal public health officials to come clean about lingering… Read More
Christianity
Millions more Americans are curious about the Bible, even as engagement slips: Report(The Heartlander)–For people of faith heartened by the recent resurgence in Bible reading and sales, the latest State of the Bible report offers a mix of encouraging signs, discouraging… Read More
Religious liberty
California Dems, LGBTQ groups spark legal, religious liberty concerns on fight against SCOTUS ruling(The Heartlander)–Democratic lawmakers and LGBTQ groups in California are already looking for workarounds to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling prohibiting the state from censoring private counselor-client conversations about gender… Read More
Illinois
Illinoisans to pay for other’s abortion services under proposed grant program(The Center Square) – Some Illinois health insurance policyholders could begin automatically funding a grant program providing abortion services for underinsured and noninsured women. After passing… Read More
Conservatism, Protests
Conservative teen girls stand their ground against hostile St. Louis ‘No Kings’ crowdTwo teenage girls holding homemade signs supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents found themselves up against an angry crowd of “No Kings” protesters in St. Louis last month, braving screaming… Read More
Illegal Immigration
Public attorneys doing way more for illegal migrants than you might think(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Criminal migrants across the country are increasingly avoiding deportation thanks to an unlikely source: public attorneys using local taxpayer dollars to represent them in… Read More
Abortion
1 abortion for every 8 births: Planned Parenthood reports record abortion numbers(The Heartlander) — More than 434,400 abortions were reported by Planned Parenthood in fiscal year 2024-25, marking an 8% increase from the previous year, according to the organization’s annual… Read More
Education, Kansas
KS Gov. Kelly vetoes additional funding for tax credit scholarship program(The Sentinel) – Governor Laura Kelly recently vetoed a bill that would have expanded the Kansas Low Income Students Tax Credit Scholarship program by $5 million.HB… Read More
Law Enforcement, St. Louis
‘Funky math and litigation’: Police union blasts St. Louis city lawsuit over SLMPD state controlThe city of St. Louis filed a lawsuit Thursday to block a state law returning control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) to a state-appointed board. Read More
Education
Texas officials propose adding Bible to school reading(The Center Square) – Texas lawmakers propose incorporating the Bible into public school reading lists, drawing support from those who say it is essential to understanding American history and… Read More
AI
Voters oust half of Missouri city council for greenlighting $6 billion AI data center(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Voters in a Missouri town ousted four city council members Tuesday for supporting an AI data center in the area. Voters in the… Read More