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Missouri Senate hopeful Mark McCloskey stokes fear over vaccine mandate at town hall

2 years 11 months ago

Missouri GOP Senate candidate Mark McCloskey told a crowd in Osage Beach last month that vaccine mandates were an effort by the government to push “right-thinking, freethinking Americans” out of their jobs to leave only “the indoctrinated sheep.” And after that, McCloskey told the assembled crowd, those COVID vaccine resisters would get “their name on […]

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Jason Hancock

Build-a-Bear creates new ecommerce role

2 years 11 months ago
Build-A-Bear Workshop has hired Char Nicanor-Kimball to fill the newly created role of vice president of ecommerce. Nicanor-Kimball most recently was the senior director of ecommerce at Hanna Andersson, where she led the business team responsible for operations, consumer journey and interaction with the clothing company’s website. She will be responsible for leading the growth of Build-A-Bear's ecommerce business as the company continues to expand its omnichannel initiatives and digital transformation. Prior…
Anne Stych

Supreme Court justices skeptical about New York gun control law

2 years 11 months ago

WASHINGTON — Conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court expressed skepticism Wednesday after listening to two hours of oral arguments on a New York law that imposes strict limits on carrying a gun outside the home—a case that will test how far states can go when crafting their own laws. In New York State Rifle & […]

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Ariana Figueroa

Redistricting commissions near end of public hearings on Missouri House, Senate maps

2 years 11 months ago

The two redistricting commissions created to design new district maps for the General Assembly are moving into their work phase. Each has held the constitutionally mandated three public hearings on how the maps should look for the 163-member Missouri House and the 34-member Missouri Senate. They have heard requests to protect incumbents, suggestions on where […]

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Rudi Keller

Missouri redistricting panels feature party leaders, political pros, activists

2 years 11 months ago

The 40 people chosen to draw new legislative districts for Missouri include political consultants, former candidates and political party officers. There are lawyers and union members, grass-roots activists and academics. And they have until late January to design 163 Missouri House and 34 state Senate districts that would be used for the first time next […]

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Rudi Keller

Making Missouri: More than 200

2 years 11 months ago
The story of how Missouri became a state takes us back to the early 1800s. However, the history of the people who lived in this area stretches back much, much further. In order to tell a complete and honest story about Missouri’s beginnings, we need to acknowledge and commemorate the histories of Missouri’s first inhabitants, as well as the people living today whose ancestral lands became part of our state. …
Brittany Krewson