The U.S. Education Department has agreed to delay for nearly two weeks enforcement of a disputed directive seeking to ban diversity, equity and inclusion practices, according to a court filing Thursday in the case challenging the order. The agreement between the department and the groups suing it over the order pauses enforcement until after April […]
This story was updated at 11:54 a.m. EDT. WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans adopted a budget resolution Thursday, clearing the way for both chambers of Congress to write a bill extending 2017 tax cuts and bolstering funding for border security and defense, though the blueprint set vastly different targets for spending cuts. The cliff-hanger 216-214 […]
This story was updated at 11:54 a.m. EDT. WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans adopted a budget resolution Thursday, clearing the way for both chambers of Congress to write a bill extending 2017 tax cuts and bolstering funding for border security and defense, though the blueprint set vastly different targets for spending cuts. The cliff-hanger 216-214 […]
The Missouri House Budget Committee approved almost $4 billion in construction funding Thursday, including 45 new earmarked items for projects that include a county government maintenance shed and a capital city parking garage. About half of the spending is reauthorization of projects approved in past years and funded mainly from the 2021 American Rescue Plan […]
The Missouri House Budget Committee approved almost $4 billion in construction funding Thursday, including 45 new earmarked items for projects that include a county government maintenance shed and a capital city parking garage. About half of the spending is reauthorization of projects approved in past years and funded mainly from the 2021 American Rescue Plan […]
For-profit referral companies that connect Missouri seniors to assisted living facilities would be required to disclose their financial ties to those facilities under a bill debated in a Missouri Senate committee on Wednesday. The proposal, which is included in a sweeping health bill, aims to add “protections for families looking to place their loved one […]
For-profit referral companies that connect Missouri seniors to assisted living facilities would be required to disclose their financial ties to those facilities under a bill debated in a Missouri Senate committee on Wednesday. The proposal, which is included in a sweeping health bill, aims to add “protections for families looking to place their loved one […]
In the heat of an argument last spring, Khyla Mason raised a handgun into the air on a neighbor’s porch. She was acting in self-defense, she said, and never fired, but the confrontation was captured on video, and some children were nearby. Mason wound up in a St. Louis jail charged with unlawful use of […]
In the heat of an argument last spring, Khyla Mason raised a handgun into the air on a neighbor’s porch. She was acting in self-defense, she said, and never fired, but the confrontation was captured on video, and some children were nearby. Mason wound up in a St. Louis jail charged with unlawful use of […]
With less than six weeks left in the legislative session, Missouri House Republicans scrapped their latest of several iterations of an abortion ban in search of a new solution. The newest proposed constitutional amendment got its first committee hearing Wednesday night with a bill filed by Republican state Rep. Ed Lewis of Moberly presented to […]
Legislation aiming to regulate intoxicating hemp products like Delta-8 seltzers and hemp-THC gummies stalled in the Missouri Senate on Wednesday after a seven-hour bipartisan filibuster. The bill’s harshest critics argued it was nothing more than an attempt by the marijuana industry to stomp out its competition. “It reminds me so much of a street drug […]
Legislation aiming to regulate intoxicating hemp products like Delta-8 seltzers and hemp-THC gummies stalled in the Missouri Senate on Wednesday after a seven-hour bipartisan filibuster. The bill’s harshest critics argued it was nothing more than an attempt by the marijuana industry to stomp out its competition. “It reminds me so much of a street drug […]
An executive order President Donald Trump signed Tuesday to block state-level renewable-energy initiatives set off alarm bells among climate advocates. But experts and state policy groups said constitutional protections will blunt any effect the order would have on state operations. The order, one of four Trump signed Tuesday aiming to revitalize the coal industry, directs the U.S. […]
An executive order President Donald Trump signed Tuesday to block state-level renewable-energy initiatives set off alarm bells among climate advocates. But experts and state policy groups said constitutional protections will blunt any effect the order would have on state operations. The order, one of four Trump signed Tuesday aiming to revitalize the coal industry, directs the U.S. […]
After a heavy lobbying effort, backers of video lottery games squeezed a slim majority out of the Missouri House on Wednesday, sending a bill promising $350 million a year for schools to the state Senate. By an 83-73 vote — just one more than the minimum needed to pass — the House approved the bill […]
After a heavy lobbying effort, backers of video lottery games squeezed a slim majority out of the Missouri House on Wednesday, sending a bill promising $350 million a year for schools to the state Senate. By an 83-73 vote — just one more than the minimum needed to pass — the House approved the bill […]
WASHINGTON — Suddenly veering from his declaration a week ago, President Donald Trump on Wednesday paused his sweeping “liberation day” tariffs for 90 days on countries he’s said are willing to negotiate new trade deals. Stocks surged upon his announcement after days of wrecked markets erased trillions of dollars from investor portfolios. The Nasdaq index […]
A Missouri House staff member is being held without bond after being charged Wednesday with assault and harassment for threatening to shoot a Jefferson City restaurant owner, according to documents filed in Cole County Circuit Court. Christian Chenet, 28, “is a danger to community,” Associate Circuit Judge Joseph Shetler ruled when requested to set a […]
A Missouri House staff member is being held without bond after being charged Wednesday with assault and harassment for threatening to shoot a Jefferson City restaurant owner, according to documents filed in Cole County Circuit Court. Christian Chenet, 28, “is a danger to community,” Associate Circuit Judge Joseph Shetler ruled when requested to set a […]
Evenezer Cortez Martinez is back on U.S. soil, landing in Kansas City Tuesday afternoon after being deported. The DACA recipient and Kansas father of three feared that he wouldn’t be able to return from Mexico, a country he left at the age of 4. His Roeland Park family embraced in a tearful and joyful reunion […]
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