Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey may have a bad track record in court, but heās winning anyway. This is especially true of his crusade to make the workforce and higher education less diverse. Heās had success using losing lawsuits, investigations that do nothing but burn Missouri taxpayer dollars and threatening letters that misstate the law.Ā […]
Momentum is building for a special session of the Missouri Legislature to redraw the stateās eight congressional districts with the aim of gaining a seat for Republicans. Democrats will fight it, but a united Republican majority with more than two-thirds of the seats in both chambers can force it through if they wish. Missouri Senate […]
WASHINGTON ā The Corporation for Public BroadcastingĀ announced Friday that it will be shutting down. The announcement came just one day after a majorĀ Senate appropriations bill omitted funding for the nonprofit that funds public media and a week after President Donald TrumpĀ signed a bill into law that yanked $1.1 billion in previously approved spending for CPB.Ā […]
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump last week seeks to remove āideological agendasā from artificial intelligence models sold to the federal government, but itās not exactly clear how the policy would be enforced, nor how tech companies would test their models for these standards, technologists and policy experts say. The executive order says […]
Dr. Marvin Singleton, a Republican who spent 13 years as a Missouri state senator, worries about many of the policies he sees coming out of Washington D.C. these days. Of course, the retired ear, nose and throat doctor is concerned about federal cuts to Medicaid spending, which could leave millions of Americans without insurance and […]
All eight of Missouriās metropolitan areas experienced higher unemployment rates in June than a month before, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that is not seasonally adjusted. n comparison to a year earlier, the jobless rate also increased in all of those metro areas. St. Joseph had the highest unemployment rate […]
Recently, Missouriās senior senator introduced the American Worker Rebate Act which promises āat leastā $600 per adult and dependent child funded by revenue from President Donald Trumpās new tariffs. The proposed legislation represents a dangerous fiscal misstep that threatens to worsen inflation while squandering a rare opportunity to address America’s mounting debt crisis. Hawleyās proposal […]
WASHINGTON ā Judges on the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit questioned the legality of President Donald Trumpās sweeping emergency tariffs Thursday as the White House pushes on with its Aug. 1 deadline for import taxes at levels not seen since the 1930s. The case originated from consolidated lawsuits brought by a handful of […]
The bill authorizing state support for professional sports stadiums is unconstitutional because it grants public aid to private interests and combines widely different and unrelated subjects, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by two state lawmakers. State Sen. Mike Moon, a Republican from Ash Grove, and state Rep. Bryant Wolfin, a Republican from Ste. Genevieve, […]
WASHINGTON ā The U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Thursday largely rejected Trump administration proposals to slash funding for education programs, medical research grants, health initiatives and Ukraine security assistance. Instead, senators from both parties agreed to increase spending in the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education spending bill for fiscal year 2026, as well […]
Only a dozen states have laws establishing suicide prevention offices or coordinators, and just 11 have task forces or committees dedicated to suicide prevention efforts, according to a new report. The report comes amid sweeping cuts at federal agencies that offer mental health support. They include significant slashes in staffing and funding at the nationās […]
When President Donald Trump signedĀ the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,Ā heĀ gave state leaders ā not federal regulators āĀ the power to decide whether and how to participate in the first-ever national tax credit scholarship program. That decision now looms largest in blue states, where Democratic governors and lawmakers must weigh whether to reject the law outright on […]
The possibility of a “whites-only” organization from Arkansas expanding into Missouri hasĀ inspired bipartisan outrage from state lawmakers and local officials who decry the group asĀ racist and antisemitic.Ā The private membership association, called Return to the Land, owns 160 acres in northeast Arkansas, according to its website. Jews and non-whites are explicitly banned from membership.Ā The […]
Members of both parties on the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee chastised a U.S. Department of Agriculture official Wednesday for not consulting Congress before proposing to shift thousands of jobs out of the Washington, D.C., area. USDA Deputy Secretary Stephen Alexander Vaden defended the sweeping proposal, which Secretary Brooke RollinsĀ announced with aĀ five-page memo last week, saying […]
The top elected official in Missouriās largest county was indicted Wednesday on four criminal charges for allegedly misusing public money to oppose passage of an April ballot measure. The indictment, secured by Attorney General Andrew Baileyās office acting as special prosecutor, accuses St. Louis County Executive Sam Page of spending public funds on a flyer […]
WASHINGTON ā U.S. Senate Democrats on Wednesday began charting a little-known legal path to force President Donald Trumpās administration to release the investigative files on the now deceased Florida sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, […]
Cattle farms and feedlots in Missouri today are populated by cows that are a far cry from those that roamed pastures 80 or 90 years ago. Cattle back then were referred to as ābuckle cowsā ā named that way because they only went about as high as a rancherās belt buckle. But in the 1950s, […]
PITTSBURG, Kan. ā Amid a summer swelter last week, more than 80 people crowded into a trendy gastropub in downtown Pittsburg, Kansas, for cold drinks and hot talk. The subject? Democrats. After disappointing results in November, Kansas state House Democrats are touring the Republican-leaning state, trying to improve relationships and set the stage for a […]
States led by Democrats should resist the temptation to conduct their own mid-decade redistricting in response to Republicans in the Texas Legislature moving to redraw U.S. House lines before the 2026 elections, officials with the nonpartisan election integrity group Common Cause said on a press call Tuesday. While blasting Texas Republicansā effort to remake congressional […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency submitted a proposal Tuesday to rescind a 2009 finding that has provided the foundation for the agencyās regulation of greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, drawing strong opposition from Democrats and climate groups. Administrator Lee Zeldin said the EPA would scrap what is known as its endangerment finding, established […]
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