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Deadlines loom on $5.3B spending bill for Missouri Medicaid, federal COVID aid for schools

2 years 8 months ago

With Gov. Mike Parson promising state employees a pay raise by Feb. 1 and the state’s Medicaid program likely to run short of money sometime next month, one of the first items on the legislature’s agenda this year is a supplemental $5.3 billion spending bill. The House Budget Committee will meet at 11 a.m. Monday […]

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Rudi Keller

The next Jan. 6 should worry us more | Opinion

2 years 8 months ago

A version of this commentary originally appeared in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. One year ago on this day, U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle was at his desk at the Longworth House Office Building, near the U.S. Capitol, when he heard an enraged mob, fueled by a former president’s false claims of fraud, making its way up Independence Avenue. Boyle, a […]

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John L. Micek

Election experts: Still more to be done on state, federal elections before 2022 midterms

2 years 8 months ago

A panel of experts on election security hosted a conversation on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. Their goal was to provide an update on how election security had been updated or improved since the 2020 election. But really, their hope was to not let history repeat itself. The four […]

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Darrell Ehrlick