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Missouri special session begins with lawmakers split on stadium funding plan

3 weeks ago
The opening of the legislative special session Monday put partisan and intraparty fights in the Missouri Senate on display as Democrats called for expanded storm relief and Freedom Caucus members called for tax cuts as the price for supporting stadium subsidies. Gov. Mike Kehoe called lawmakers together just two weeks after they finished work in […]
Rudi Keller

Judge preserves work permits, deportation protections for 5,000 Venezuelans

3 weeks ago
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from invalidating work permits and other documents that granted legal status to 5,000 Venezuelans, a subset class of the nearly 350,000 whose temporary legal protections the U.S. Supreme Court last month allowed to be terminated. The Saturday order from U.S. District Judge Edward […]
Ariana Figueroa

Missouri governor calls for task force to keep state education funding flat

3 weeks ago
A group of state officials and business leaders tasked by Gov. Mike Kehoe with creating a new formula to fund Missouri’s public schools gathered for the first time on Monday under an expectation that funding should be below what lawmakers approved earlier this year. Halle Herbert, the governor’s incoming policy director, told the group that […]
Annelise Hanshaw

Homeland Security’s list of ‘sanctuary cities’ pulled down after sheriffs object

3 weeks ago
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security over the weekend took down a public list of cities and jurisdictions that the Trump administration labeled as “sanctuary” cities, after a sharp rebuke from a group representing 3,000 sheriffs and local law enforcement. On Saturday, National Sheriffs’ Association President Sheriff Kieran Donahue slammed the list as […]
Ariana Figueroa

With Missouri abortion access in limbo, both sides eye battles in court, on the ballot

3 weeks ago
Both sides of the abortion debate seemed caught by surprise last week by the Missouri Supreme Court’s order that essentially reimposed the state’s abortion ban.  Planned Parenthood clinics were sent scrambling, cancelling abortion appointments and working with patients to ensure access in other states — a return to the way things operated before voters enshrined […]
Jason Hancock

US Supreme Court permits deportation of another half million migrants, for now

3 weeks 3 days ago
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Friday said it will allow the Trump administration to remove deportation protections for more than 500,000 nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who were given permission to temporarily remain and work in the United States by the Biden administration. The move by the high court — which permits […]
Ariana Figueroa

Co-owners of Missouri company at center of marijuana recall got green light for another license

3 weeks 3 days ago
When the company at the center of a massive cannabis product recall lost the appeal of its revoked business license in February, Missouri regulators moved quickly to ensure those involved would no longer be permitted access to a marijuana facility without supervision.  But that punishment doesn’t mean those involved with Robertsville-manufacturer Delta Extraction are out […]
Rebecca Rivas

Homeschool athletes await Missouri governor’s decision on access to public school sports

3 weeks 3 days ago
A decade of work by lawmakers and activists culminated earlier this month with the legislature sending a bill to Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe expanding extracurricular opportunities for homeschool students. The legislation, which has been filed every year in Missouri since 2014, will require public schools to allow homeschooled students in the area to try out […]
Annelise Hanshaw

Bipartisan resistance building against Missouri governor’s stadium funding plan

3 weeks 4 days ago
Gov. Mike Kehoe’s stadium funding plan for the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals is facing growing resistance from across the ideological spectrum as lawmakers prepare to return to the Missouri Capitol on Monday.  From the right, the Senate Freedom Caucus is threatening a return to procedural gridlock if the agenda for next week’s special session […]
Jason Hancock, Rudi Keller

Immigrants in US without permanent legal status grew to 12.2 million, study finds

3 weeks 4 days ago
WASHINGTON — The Center for Migration Studies Thursday released a report finding the population of people in the United States without permanent legal status increased to 12.2 million in 2023, using the most recent Census Bureau American Community Survey data. It’s a number that grew by 2 million from 2020 to 2023, according to the study by […]
Ariana Figueroa

US House-passed tax bill weakens accountability at for-profit colleges, advocates say

3 weeks 4 days ago
WASHINGTON — The massive tax and spending package U.S. House Republicans narrowly advanced last week could hinder accountability for for-profit colleges and weaken student-borrower protections, student advocates say. The bill, now headed to the Senate, calls for sweeping changes to education policy under what GOP lawmakers deem “regulatory relief.”  That includes eliminating a rule governing for-profit schools, […]
Shauneen Miranda

HHS presses health care providers, hospitals to curb gender-affirming treatments for kids

3 weeks 4 days ago
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services urged health care providers Wednesday to stop several treatments for children with gender dysphoria, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries. The announcement came just a couple hours before the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sent letters to hospitals throughout the country, promising “a […]
Jennifer Shutt

Capitol Perspectives: Memories of the late Missouri Gov. Kit Bond

3 weeks 4 days ago
Christopher “Kit” Bond’s death brought very deep memories for me about a governor I have missed since he left the office in 1985. My strongest memory of Bond was his pursuit as the Republican gubernatorial candidate to replace the Democratic governor who controlled a legislature dominated by Democrats. He began his election campaign critical of […]
Phill Brooks