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Missouri gets new health chief after backlash over last one

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has named a longtime state health official as the new acting director of the Department of Health and Senior Services

The Independent UK

Voters will decide on legislative proposals adding restrictions to ballot initiative processes in Arizona, Arkansas, and South Dakota in 2022

Voters in at least three states will decide legislative proposals to change citizen-initiated ballot measure processes this year. Legislatures in Arizona, Arkansas, and South Dakota have passed constitutional amendments on ballot initiatives, and additional constitutional changes are being considered in Arizona and Missouri.

Ballotpedia

Missouri Lawmakers Propose Ban on Eviction Bans

A series of bills introduced in the state Legislature would prohibit city councils and county courts from adopting their own eviction moratoriums.

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Twitter suspends US Senate candidate for hateful conduct

A U.S. Senate candidate for Missouri says she has no plans to delete a transphobic tweet that violated Twitter’s rules against hateful conduct

The Independent UK

Editorial: With Roe on the ropes, red states are ready to return women to the back alleys

Elections have consequences, as they say, and the majority of Americans who support abortion rights may soon get a startling demonstration of that principle in action. In dozens of Republican-led states, including Missouri, lawmakers are filing bills to restrict abortion rights in anticipation of a likely weakening of Roe v.…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri US Senate candidate suspended from Twitter after anti-transgender post

U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s Twitter account was suspended on Monday for violating the platform’s rules against hateful conduct, according to one of Hartzler’s top campaign advisers.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Ford F-150 Production Shuts Down For The Second Time In A Month

You probably know why at this point.

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Editorial: A governor clueless about computers has no business overseeing cybersecurity

A cybersecurity perfect storm has been brewing for years in Missouri’s state government computer systems under the supervision of a governor who clearly is clueless regarding computers and data. State computer systems and online data networks are antiquated, using programming languages that became obsolete decades ago. Recent comments by Gov.…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri Senate passes pay raises, renews effort to block Planned Parenthood payments

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The Missouri General Assembly on Thursday sent to Gov. Mike Parson a supplemental budget bill that gives pay raises to state workers, funds the voter-approved Medicaid expansion and allocates nearly $2 billion in federal aid to schools.

Tribune News Service

Missouri Marijuana Legalization Bill Aims High but Expectations Remain Low

Previous efforts languished in committees.

Reason

Missouri Senate overcomes dress code dilemma, approves $4.5 billion spending plan

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A fight over one senator's bib overalls was shunted aside Wednesday so the Missouri Legislature's fractured upper chamber could finally approve a midyear budget adjustment that boosts state worker pay and bans funds for Planned Parenthood.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Wintry weather disrupts travel across the heartland

Hundreds of flights have been canceled at the busy Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and hundreds of traffic accidents reported as freezing rain and drizzle glazed parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas with ice

The Independent UK

Missouri lawmaker ends protest, sorry for overalls 'ruckus'

A Republican Missouri state senator punished for wearing overalls has ended his filibuster

The Independent UK

Ice likely in Southern Plains; New England to see heavy snow

Hundreds of flights have been canceled at the busy Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as parts of Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas braced for an ice storm making its way into the Southern Plains

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Missouri senator protests punishment for wearing overalls

A Missouri state senator punished for wearing overalls on the Senate floor has blocked any work from getting done in protest

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri Republicans trade jabs as race for US Senate kicks off

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Nearly four years after he resigned from office and retreated from the capital city, former Gov. Eric Greitens returned Tuesday to officially launch his bid for U.S. Senate.

The Independent UK

Missouri man convicted in wife's death admits child abuse

A Missouri man convicted of killing his wife and lying about her body's whereabouts has pleaded guilty to abuse of their young daughter

Tribune News Service

Missouri takes months to process Medicaid applications — longer than law allows

Aneka French applied for Medicaid in October, not long after Missouri became the 38th state to expand eligibility for the program.

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Kevin McDermott: Why I’m voting for an unfit demagogue in this year’s Republican Senate primary

Eric Greitens is the worst of the worst. He earns the title just by virtue of the credible sexual assault allegations that drove him out of the Missouri governor’s office in 2018.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Ranchers are going bankrupt as meat prices soar. Blame the robber barons

Farmers and ranchers in rural Missouri and Illinois, it’s safe to say, are a pretty conservative group, firm in their longtime dedication to the deregulation and free market principles of the Republican Party. But now might be a good time for them to take a good look at their bank…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Police probe shows Missouri data weakness existed a decade before Post-Dispatch exposed it

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A police investigation released Monday shows that a flaw in a Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education webpage had been in place since 2011 and that no one had noticed the flaw until a St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist pointed out the weakness.

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Tennessee vs Missouri Prediction, College Basketball Game Preview

Tennessee vs Missouri prediction, college basketball game preview, how to watch, lines, and why each team might - or might not - win on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

FDA issues warning for Family Dollar stores after 1,100 rodents found at Arkansas facility

The states impacted include Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: In defending Missouri's unconstitutional gun law, AG Schmitt aids the criminals

The Biden administration sued Missouri in federal court in Kansas City on Wednesday over the state’s bonkers attempt to nullify enforcement of federal gun laws here. The plainly unconstitutional state statute has already had the predictable result of hampering crime-fighting efforts. Yet state Attorney General Eric Schmitt is, in his…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Mike Jensen: Call Dawn Staley a villain if you want. She’ll just keep winning.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — As Dawn Staley stood on the court in front of her bench, nobody inside Memorial Coliseum seemed to care that this woman had coached a United States Olympic team to glory, had herself once carried the American flag into the opening ceremony of the 2004 Olympics. They…

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