Sam Alexander paints a grim picture of Missouri’s 28th Senate District. Alexander, an emergency room physician and farmer running for state Senate, said he lays awake at night thinking of the hospitals in financial straits, young people leaving their small towns behind for more work opportunities and senior citizens living month-to-month. “We’re America. We can […]
Following a string of special election victories, Democrats have a path to flip several Republican-held legislative chambers and break GOP supermajorities in states across the country this November. High prices and overall voter dissatisfaction with Washington have put control of the U.S. House and Senate in play this year — a dynamic that has trickled […]
We have some very important elections this year. Elections have consequences, and a lot is riding on how we vote, or worse, if we choose not to vote at all. There are concerted efforts at the national level and across many states to make it more difficult to exercise that power. We cannot afford to […]
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision makes it easier for political parties to put their stamp on the most important campaigns, just as the struggle heats up for control of Congress in the midterm elections. Simply put, the ruling “gives the parties more money to spend,” said David Kolker, senior counsel at the nonpartisan Campaign […]
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened on Friday to prosecute election officials in states that don’t “participate in securing the elections” ahead of the November midterms. Election officials who do not comply with administration directives to enhance security of voting machines and to share voter data with the federal government through the powerful Systematic Alien […]
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that public health officials have linked the ongoing outbreak of cyclosporiasis in five states to shredded iceberg lettuce from Taco Bell restaurants. The fast food chain wrote in a statement that it plans to remove the “potentially impacted lettuce” from its “supply chain nationwide […]
The tiniest menace of summer doesn’t care if you’re hiking through the woods, walking the dog or pulling weeds in your backyard. It just wants a ride and a meal. As ticks spread into new parts of the country and emergency room visits for tick bites climb higher than usual, states are scrambling to monitor […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Labor Department on Thursday defended the agency’s major role in a broader drive by the administration to dismantle the Education Department. Grilled by U.S. Senate Democrats, acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling stood behind the multiple interagency agreements, or IAAs, Education has so far signed with Labor, […]
A coalition of hemp businesses filed a federal lawsuit Thursday in an attempt to halt a statewide ban on intoxicating hemp products from going into effect in November. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District, claims the ban state lawmakers passed this spring contains “unconstitutionally vague” definitions for hemp and […]
In the spring of 2021, Cecilia Williams lost her son, daughter-in-law and grandson to a drunken driver. Williams, who lives in Bonne Terre, is now raising the two orphaned grandchildren who survived, Bentley and Mason. A year later, Melanie Wankum was hit head-on by a drunken driver, killing her instantly and injuring a passenger on their […]
As federal officials consider whether to reclassify marijuana under federal drug law, a new study has found that more American teenagers seeking treatment for cannabis use disorder, known as CUD, are facing longer wait times before receiving care. The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, analyzed national data from more than 124,000 […]
The nation’s election infrastructure is vulnerable to cyberattacks by foreign actors, President Donald Trump said during a primetime address Thursday night, citing a batch of documents he declassified — but providing no proof broad interference actually occurred or affected an election outcome. Democrats and advocates quickly criticized the remarks as another attempt by Trump to give […]
Missouri state Sen. Jill Carter considers herself a “poster child” for school choice, having homeschooled her children and spent a decade advocating for parental rights before winning a Missouri Senate seat in 2022. “I think government has ruined education,” said Carter, whose 32nd District encompasses Jasper and Newton counties, the area surrounding Joplin. “We talk […]
In her analysis of the most recent U.S. Supreme Court term, Amy Howe of SCOTUSblog pondered whether it was “the Trump term?” after mixed results for President Donald Trump on the cases involving his agenda. So, how did Trump do? The court checked Trump with high profile decisions against him on tariffs, birthright citizenship, and […]
Farmers from across the country are urging the federal government to expedite an investigation of the fertilizer industry as they struggle with “impossibly high input costs.” A letter from grower associations follows a slew of recent federal actions taken to address the expense of fertilizers. In the letter sent to leaders of the Senate Committee […]
Ballot measure fights are consuming the big money in Missouri elections this summer, with more than $27 million raised for proposals on the Aug. 4 ballot, according to reports filed this week with state and federal authorities. There’s no hotly contested statewide candidate race on the primary election ballot, but there are four constitutional amendments, […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries rallied a key group for his party Thursday, telling the American Federation of Teachers’ national convention that, if successful in November’s midterm elections, a Democratic majority in the House would pursue several progressive policies. The New York congressman addressed affordability, voting rights and what he called “the […]
WASHINGTON — Republicans on the U.S. House Budget Committee approved their budget resolution Thursday, marking one small step forward in the complicated process that could allow the party to enact a third party-line bill. The 20-14 vote followed hours of debate over amendments from Democrats that sought to roll back pieces of the earlier Republican […]
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin called New York’s recently announced statewide moratorium on data centers an “easy way to cop out” during an appearance at the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Infrastructure Summit Tuesday. Data centers — which house the computer servers and storage that power the internet, cloud computing and artificial […]
WASHINGTON — A major legislative package that would put into law President Donald Trump’s push to greatly reduce the responsibilities of the U.S. Department of Education advanced out of a U.S. House panel on Wednesday. The U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce approved — nearly along party lines — each of the package’s 10 bills that […]
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