TOPEKA, Kansas — The editor of the Kansas newspaper raided by police last year has a message for journalists struggling with their sense of purpose. Go on the offensive. Eric Meyer, editor and publisher of the Marion County Record, delivered remarks Friday as he was inducted alongside his mother, Joan, into the Kansas Press Association […]
A new federal rule will require water utilities across the country to pull millions of lead drinking water pipes out of the ground and replace them, at a cost of billions of dollars. States, cities and water utilities agree that the lead pipes need to go to ensure safe water for residents. But they say […]
The federal government is asking a judge to rule that it has the power to impose staffing requirements on nursing homes that collect billions of federal tax dollars through Medicaid and Medicare. The request was made Friday in the form of a motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit filed by the nursing home industry. […]
OZARK — Attorneys argued about culpability in Christian County Circuit Court Monday morning in a lawsuit involving a Branson-area Christian summer camp accused of conspiring with its insurer to trick a family into signing a non-disclosure agreement by concealing prior knowledge of sexual misconduct. Logan Yandell, a survivor of sexual abuse by Kanakuk Ministries’ former […]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is asking Congress to approve $98.4 billion in emergency spending to bolster the federal government’s response and recovery efforts following a series of natural disasters, including Hurricanes Helene and Milton that devastated parts of Southeastern states. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and Department of Agriculture would receive the bulk of […]
A late report adding nearly 10,000 votes to Christian County’s election results has narrowed the margin for Missouri’s sports betting amendment and put it in range for a possible recount. The official results from Christian County, certified last week, increased the county’s vote total on Amendment 2 by 9,653, with a margin of 3,995 votes […]
President-elect Donald Trump tapped two Missouri members of the legal team for jobs in the new administration, naming D. John Sauer solicitor general and Will Scharf assistant to the president and White House staff secretary. Sauer, who lives in the St. Louis suburb of Town and Country, was Missouri solicitor general from 2017 through 2022 […]
In this year’s elections, American Dream PAC told voters to elect Mike Kehoe as governor while American Promise PAC pushed to elect Vivek Malek as state treasurer. The Committee for Liberty PAC backed Jay Ashcroft’s bid for governor and Liberty and Justice PAC supported Andrew Bailey for attorney general. Mike Hamra’s run for governor was […]
Votes have been cast and whether our candidates and issues won or loss, as concerned citizens, our most important work is ahead of us — in Missouri and Washington. Continued involvement and ongoing oversight should rule the day. This election cycle has been anything but politics as usual. But lest we forget, the people remain […]
MOBERLY — Mayme Williams sat in the lobby of the Country Villa apartments in Moberly, reminiscing about the all-Black Lincoln School in the early 1930s, when the city’s public schools were still racially segregated. At 97, Williams still remembers her childhood years at the Lincoln School: her friends, the walk to school from her family’s […]
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump continued his blitz of Cabinet and senior staff selections, closing the week Friday with the announcement that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a former presidential rival turned Trump surrogate, is his candidate to lead the federal department responsible for vast swaths of federal lands and U.S. relations with Native American […]
WASHINGTON — A measure to ensure the federal student aid form opens up annually by Oct. 1 passed the U.S. House Friday with overwhelming bipartisan support. The effort — which passed 381-1 — came after the U.S. Department of Education faced major backlash over the botched rollout of the 2024-25 Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or […]
Missourians can walk into a CBD shop right now and buy something that looks just like the canisters of marijuana buds and joints sold in state-regulated dispensaries. Coffee shops are selling seltzers with 5mg of Delta-9 THC — an amount that would produce a strong buzz — right next to the juices in their coolers. […]
Health care providers say they are seeing a drastic increase in the number of emergency contraceptive kit requests by Missourians since the election. The Missouri Family Health Council helps fund the state’s reproductive health care through Title X, a federal grant. It has a program that allows Missourians to order emergency contraception kits via mail […]
After years of no-limit spending on Missouri politics, voters had enough in 2016. That year, as candidates raked in $65.5 million in donations larger than $100,000, Missourians overwhelmingly adopted a constitutional amendment capping donations to candidates, outlawing direct contributions from corporations and labor unions and banning efforts to conceal where money is coming from. The […]
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday he plans to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services, another controversial candidate who could face a challenging confirmation process in the U.S. Senate given his non-scientific beliefs about public health, including his anti-vaccine stance. “I am thrilled to announce Robert […]
WASHINGTON — Republicans in the Nov. 5 election took over the White House, the U.S. Senate and as of late Wednesday, the House, after calls were made in enough races to project a majority. They are expressing high hopes for unified control of government. But before they’ll be able to celebrate enacting sweeping changes to […]
An analysis of Missouri election result maps shows a steady shift to Republicans, including smaller movement in urban Democratic strongholds. At the same time, the suburbs where Democrats nationally have seen the biggest promise for growth offer a more mixed message. In fact, the data show a steady shift toward the Republican Party in nearly […]
WASHINGTON — Republicans will hold on to their majority in the U.S. House and regain control of the Senate when Congress convenes in January, setting the party up to potentially make major policy changes during the next two years. The GOP hadn’t clinched the 218 House seats needed for a majority until late Wednesday, when […]
Voters in several states, including Missouri, last week delivered a stinging rebuke to ranked-choice voting, clouding the future of an idea that had seen strong momentum in recent years. Ranked-choice voting, which allows voters to rank political candidates by preference, is used statewide in Alaska and Maine and in major U.S. localities such as New […]
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