Issues and Concerns

FTC Releases Annual Do Not Call Registry Data Book
Dec 11, 2025

The Federal Trade Commission today released the National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal Year 2025, which shows that, while overall complaints rose in FY 2025, unwanted calls remain about 48% lower than in FY 2021, when the…

CBP intercepts first-in-nation bark beetle in Detroit
Dec 11, 2025

ROMULUS, Mich. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists made a first-in-nation interception of a potentially destructive bark beetle species in bark from the Ivory Coast last February. The approximately 3-millimeter beetle was found within partially dry bark brought…

Dec 10, 2025

The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question, ''Why didn't we have a drug problem…

Dec 10, 2025

The holiday season is upon us, full of busy schedules and distractions. One distraction the Arizona Department of Public Safety would like to help you avoid is identity theft. Unlike most crimes where the victim is immediately aware of an…

Dec 5, 2025

The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies, purposely omitted context, and outright left-wing lunacy of the Fake News Media — a tall task…