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Stadium bill, disaster aid sail through Missouri House committees

4 months 3 weeks ago
The special session bills to fund professional sports stadiums in Kansas City and provide disaster relief to St. Louis passed House committees easily on Tuesday, setting up final votes that will send them to Gov. Mike Kehoe. There were no changes from the Senate-approved versions as the stadium financing bill passed the House Economic Development […]
Rudi Keller

Pentagon sets price tag for 60-day Los Angeles troop deployment at $134 million

4 months 3 weeks ago
The Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to protests over immigration raids in Los Angeles will cost the federal government about $134 million, a Pentagon budget official said Tuesday, as the response to the protests further divided officials in California and Washington, D.C. The situation in the country’s second-largest city captured […]
Jacob Fischler

The U.S. Army Embraces ‘Right To Repair.’ At Least Superficially.

4 months 3 weeks ago
U.S. consumer protection (or what’s left of it after several devastating Supreme Court rulings and Trump executive orders) is on life support. But one bright spot continues to be the “right to repair” movement, which is working to fight repair monopolies and make it cheaper and easier to repair the tech you own. Washington state […]
Karl Bode

Missouri Supreme Court rejects transgender student’s sex discrimination claim

4 months 3 weeks ago
In a 5-2 ruling Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court rejected a transgender student’s claim that he faced sex discrimination when the Blue Springs School District denied him access to single-sex locker rooms and bathrooms. The case did not seek a ruling on the constitutionality of school districts barring transgender students from sex-designated spaces. Instead, it […]
Annelise Hanshaw