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Missouri’s thin dental safety net stretched amid Medicaid expansion

3 years 1 month ago

This story was originally published by Kaiser Health News and KSMU. At the Access Family Care clinics in southwestern Missouri, the next available nonemergency dental appointment is next summer. Northwest Health Services, headquartered in St. Joseph, is booked through May. The wait is a little shorter at CareSTL Health in St. Louis — around six […]

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Bram Sable-Smith

Missouri legislative leader joins crowded U.S. Senate race

3 years 1 month ago

One of the top Republican lawmakers in the Missouri General Assembly filed paperwork Monday declaring his intention to run for the U.S. Senate. Senate President Pro Tem David Schatz, a Franklin County Republican, told The Independent in April that he was considering running to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt. At the time, he said […]

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Jason Hancock

Sisters Sandwich Shoppe Is the Lunch Counter Southampton Needed

3 years 1 month ago
Ever since they opened their coffeehouse, Espresso Yourself Coffee & Café, Tracy Calabro and Jules Karagiannis heard the same refrain from their Southampton neighbors: This area needs a deli. For three years, guests would not only lament the lack of a neighborhood sandwich shop, but also give Calabro and Karagiannis the backstory on why they were so adamant.…
Cheryl Baehr

The Osage Peoples, Past and Present

3 years 1 month ago
The Osage peoples have lived in what we now call Missouri for hundreds of years. While their ancestors first settled in the Ohio River Valley, they migrated to the Mississippi River Valley around 400 to 500 CE. Historians such as Andrea A. Hunter, the Osage Nation’s director and tribal historic preservation officer, speculate that the Osage were part of the Cahokia civilization—the society famous for building great mounds—around 1000 to 1200 CE. Living along the Missouri River and its tributaries, including …
Brittany Krewson