Legislation putting control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department in the hands of a state board is on its way to the governor’s desk. On a 113 to 39 vote, the Missouri House gave final approval to a bill to put the city’s police department under control of a board made up of the […]
The failures of a new $100 million Missouri state accounting system disrupted plans for the House Budget Committee to put its imprint this week on the spending plan for the coming fiscal year. The system purchased in 2022 from Accenture was supposed to be in the final phase of implementation at this point, with all […]
Working-age adults who live in small towns and rural areas are more likely to be covered by Medicaid than their counterparts in cities, creating a dilemma for Republicans looking to make deep cuts to the health care program. About 72 million people — nearly 1 in 5 people in the United States — are enrolled […]
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is doubling down on his demand that Planned Parenthood stop performing a type of abortion that its clinics aren’t actually offering patients. On Monday, Bailey issued a notice of an intent to serve a cease and desist letter to Planned Parenthood Great Plains, which operates clinics in the Kansas City […]
“How much profit is enough?” It was a question posed by an upset electric customer venting at a recent Public Service Commission hearing for an Ameren electricity rate hike. “At the expense of poor people and the elderly that are on fixed incomes,” he continued. The collective frustration made it clear customers are feeling the […]
WASHINGTON — A group of veterans sounded the alarm Tuesday over the Trump administration’s job cuts and canceled contracts at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, saying the massive agency that administers benefits and health care programs to millions of vets and their families would see disruptions from the proposed downsizing. The administration is eyeing […]
A Missouri Senate committee approved legislation that would remove the University of Missouri System’s exclusive rights to certain degree programs. State law currently bars other public colleges from offering research doctorates and first-professional degrees, which includes areas like dentistry and veterinary medicine. Public universities also are only allowed to offer degrees in podiatry, chiropractic, osteopathic […]
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has announced plans to roll back a Biden-era rule that expanded health care access under the Affordable Care Act to an estimated 100,000 uninsured people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The agency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said in a statement late Monday it was following […]
Adriana Pentz’s brother could be alive today. In 2017, Luc-John Pentz was 30 years old and starting to struggle, burdened by life’s stressors and trying to cope by leaning heavily on alcohol. Adriana soon found out he had purchased a gun months earlier. Of her three siblings, she had the most in common with Luc […]
In the spring of 1861, St. Louis was seething. Seven slave states had seceded by the time Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as president on March 4, 1861, but Missouri and seven others hadn’t decided whether to stay in the Union or join the nascent Confederate States of America. Missouri sympathizers to the Southern cause of […]
A bill changing how utility rates are set won overwhelming approval in a Missouri House committee Monday after a hearing where backers said it is vital to the state’s economy and opponents said it would soak consumers with higher costs. The proposal to repeal a 1976 law passed by initiative petition that prohibits companies from […]
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins is pausing funding to the digital library catalog company Overdrive until it can prove that it has as safeguards barring children from accessing inappropriate content. The action comes after a Missouri Senate committee heard a bill last week seeking regulation of digital library catalogs, alleging Overdrive-run app Sora allows […]
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress will try to pass a stopgap spending bill this week to avert a partial government shutdown and keep the government running through September, though they’ll need Democrats’ help to do it. The 99-page stopgap spending bill, which House Republicans released over the weekend, is required since lawmakers haven’t made any progress […]
WASHINGTON — A lawful permanent resident who helped organize Palestinian protests at Columbia University remained in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody Monday after his arrest over the weekend. ICE agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil on Saturday, initially saying they were acting on a State Department directive to revoke his student visa. Khalil’s attorney, Amy Greer, told The […]
Bill Eigel hasn’t been a Missouri senator for months, and he fell short in his two recent runs for governor and chair of the state GOP. Yet as the Missouri General Assembly speeds toward the midpoint of its most productive legislative session in years, Eigel remains a subject of fascination for the legislature he left […]
In Missouri and Kansas, almost four in 10 young people who identify as gay or transgender have seriously considered suicide in the past year, and 15% have attempted it. That’s according to a new survey by The Trevor Project, which asked 18,000 people ages 13 to 24 across the country questions about issues like depression […]
The cost of child care now exceeds the price of college tuition in 38 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute. The left-leaning think tank, based in Washington, D.C., used 2023 federal and nonprofit data to compare the monthly cost of infant child care to […]
Missouri took control of the St. Louis police department just before the start of the Civil War, a gambit by state leaders to prevent the city from rising up against their conspiracy to align the state with the Confederacy. The arrangement persisted until 2012, when 64% of Missouri voters approved an initiative petition returning control […]
The principles, laws and institutions that set America apart from the rest of the world are at risk of being permanently changed or replaced by ones that are less noble, less honorable and less workable. Where are the defenders of the Constitution and this nation’s values? What is happening to the respect for and adherence […]
“My mom wanted us out of that school,” says a young woman named Kayla from the St. Louis area. “But the Normandy district was fighting to keep us there.” Kayla and her mom were bumping up against a hard reality that many Missouri families have faced: The state has one of the strictest systems of […]
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