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Missouri Senate committee triples funding for widening I-70 across the state

2 years 6 months ago

The proposed Missouri state budget grew by more than $2 billion Tuesday as the Senate Appropriations Committee dipped into the massive state surplus to widen Interstate 70 from Wentzville to Blue Springs. The committee also added hundreds of millions for other programs to the spending plan passed late last month by the Missouri House, either […]

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Rudi Keller

One state already has voted to ban TikTok. For Congress, it’s going to be much tougher

2 years 6 months ago

As TikTok has mushroomed to more than 150 million monthly U.S. users, so have warnings among both state legislators and members of Congress about its potential danger as a tool of the Chinese government. Dozens of states and the federal government this year banned public employees from downloading the popular app on their government devices. […]

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Jacob Fischler

Missouri’s initiative petition process is at risk

2 years 6 months ago

The initiative petition process, used by Missourians to independently check special interests and bring issues to the voters for 115 years, is under attack by our Missouri Legislature. The supermajority in the legislature, with no counterbalancing weight within their chambers, is leading the charge to undermine the initiative petition process. To carry out their scheme, politicians and lobbyists are […]

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Julie Allen

Labor exploitation of unaccompanied migrant children probed at U.S. House hearing

2 years 6 months ago

WASHINGTON — U.S. House members in a hearing on Tuesday questioned the head of a federal agency in charge of unaccompanied migrant children about multiple reports of their exploitation as workers in U.S. meatpacking plants and elsewhere. Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight & Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs agreed that […]

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Ariana Figueroa