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Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024?

1 year 5 months ago
Voters in both Colorado and South Dakota will have a say on abortion rights this fall after supporters collected enough valid signatures to put measures on the ballot, part of a national push to pose abortion rights questions to voters since the U.S. Supreme Court removed the nationwide right to abortion. South Dakota's top election [...]
GEOFF MULVIHILL and KIMBERLEE KRUESI, Associated Press

‘A bizarre session’: Missouri lawmakers head home after year defined by gridlock, infighting

1 year 5 months ago

The least productive — and most chaotic — legislative session in living memory came to a close Friday, when the Missouri Senate, mired in factional infighting, threw in the towel eight hours early and the House scrambled to get whatever bills it could salvage across the finish line before the 6 p.m. deadline for adjournment.  […]

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Jason Hancock

Mayor Wants Plan for Railway Exchange and Millennium Hotel by September

1 year 5 months ago
Mayor Tishaura Jones held a press conference this morning with Greater St. Louis Inc. and the St. Louis Development Corporation asking them to create a plan to address two troubled downtown buildings: the Railway Exchange Building and Millenium Hotel. In a post to X (formerly Twitter) Jones said she asked the two organizations “to deliver a plan for bold action” to address the buildings, which she says have been neglected for far too long.  “We want downtown to be [a] place where you can feel safe doing something or nothing,” Jones added.
Kallie Cox

Missouri initiative petition bill, a top GOP priority, dies on final day of session

1 year 5 months ago
The Missouri Senate put its dysfunction on display one last time Friday when it adjourned minutes after reconvening, effectively killing efforts to send voters a ballot measure changing the majority needed to pass constitutional amendments. The decision to quit almost eight hours before the constitutional deadline shows how little tolerance Republican leadership had for remaining in the same room with their factional foes in the Missouri Freedom Caucus. The motion to adjourn was made by Senate…
Rudi Keller and Anna Spoerre

Missouri legislators pass tax break for Kansas City nuclear weapons campus expansion

1 year 5 months ago

A proposed expansion of a nuclear weapons parts manufacturer in south Kansas City could get a boost from a tax break Missouri lawmakers passed Friday. With only hours left in Missouri’s annual legislative session, the state House voted 141-2 to authorize a sales tax exemption for construction materials purchased to expand the National Nuclear Safety […]

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Allison Kite