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Federal cuts, expiring aid squeeze state budgets nationwide

2 months 4 weeks ago
A perfect storm has arrived on the ledgers of many state budgets, bearing down on the people who often need help the most. Federal and state policy decisions, the end of pandemic aid and long-term fiscal trends — such as people aging into Social Security benefits — are requiring states to take a tougher look […]
Statehouse Reporting Project

Airport chaos: TSA agents skip work, security lines expand, Trump sends in ICE to assist

2 months 4 weeks ago
Airport security workers missed work Monday at the highest rate since a partial government shutdown began in mid-February, the Department of Homeland Security said, and the Trump administration sent immigration officials to some airports in an attempt to keep lines moving. Travelers reported hourslong security lines at major airports in Atlanta and Houston, while waits […]
Jacob Fischler

Tax credits for food donations debated by Missouri House committee

2 months 4 weeks ago
Missouri residents can receive state income tax credits on donations to food pantries, homeless shelters and soup kitchens. Two bills seeking to make adjustments to those credits were discussed Monday afternoon by a Missouri House committee. One bill, introduced by Republican state Rep. John Voss of Cape Girardeau, would eliminate the Dec. 31 expiration date […]
Hannah McDonough

Supreme Court skeptical of allowing states to count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day

3 months ago
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices on Monday appeared skeptical of the validity of mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, in a case that could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of voters during the upcoming midterm elections. The high court heard arguments on whether federal law overrides a Mississippi law that requires mail-in ballots […]
Jonathan Shorman

Missouri referendum campaign says it has enough signatures to challenge gerrymandered map

3 months ago
Backers of a proposed referendum on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional plan believe they have met the minimum number of signatures needed to make the November’s ballot. Updated data, posted Monday morning by People Not Politicians, the political action committee that organized a referendum petition drive, shows that the petition has at least 129% of the required […]
Rudi Keller

Local Plan Modification 2024-2027

3 months ago
SLWDB invites public review and comment on proposed modifications to its WIOA Local Plan 2024-2027. Comments are due by 5:00 p.m. on April 14, 2026.
St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment

Medicaid cuts could add pressure to already-stressed psychiatric units

3 months ago
Federal Medicaid cuts could exact a heavy toll on psychiatric units at hospitals across the country, many of which are already struggling to keep their doors open but provide essential mental health care to people who need it. Psychiatric units are costly and, like labor and delivery services, typically lose money for hospitals and tend […]
Nada Hassanein

Trump administration pushes to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia

3 months ago
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is again trying to send the wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the west African nation of Liberia and urging a federal judge to dismiss a bar on his removal, according to legal documents filed over the weekend.  Abrego Garcia, of Maryland, has agreed to be deported to Costa Rica, […]
Ariana Figueroa

Neil Simon play on solder’s life stateside during WWII

3 months ago

“Biloxi Blues” Finds Humor in World War II at the Florissant Performing Arts Center by Pat Lindsey When you see Neil Simon’s “Biloxi Blues” at the Florissant Performing Arts Center next weekend, you’ll forget you’re watching community theater. The Hawthorne Players have selected a cast of eight–six men and two women–who are as professional as any […]

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