Gender identity and LGBTQ-plus issues have gotten days’ worth of heated discussion in the Missouri General Assembly this session. Joey Parker tells us about the most recent legislative winners and losers. Republican Representative Brian Seitz of southern Missouri’s Taney County highlights an issue that’s dominated this session. Representatives Maggie Nurrenbern, a Kansas City […]
A 65-mile gas pipeline through eastern Missouri is in limbo after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider reinstating federal authorization for the project. Permits for the Spire STL Pipeline, which cuts through Illinois and Missouri, were struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. last year after the three-judge panel said federal regulators had […]
(Missouri Independent) – The Missouri Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that St. Louis and Jackson County may challenge the constitutionality of a law passed last year barring Missouri police from enforcing federal gun regulations. In a 6-1 decision, Missouri’s highest court sent a case about the Second Amendment Preservation Act back to Cole County Circuit […]
Nestlé Professional USA announced it is investing $7.5 million to expand its facility in Trenton, with plans to add more than 30 jobs. The expansion of the factory will enable the company to meet the growing demand for products for the out-of-home market. “Nestlé’s expansion is great news for Trenton and will positively impact the […]
Landowners in northwest and west-central Missouri can tap a revenue source through the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service program called PRIME, an acronym for Program Restoring and Improving Monarch Ecosystems. The Missouri Department of Conservation can help connect landowners with the program and offer expertise on management practices that help monarch butterflies and all pollinators. […]
Time is running out to fix loopholes in Missouri’s concealed carry law this year. Marshall Griffin reports: A bill in the Missouri Senate would adjust the 2016 conceal-carry law to forbid someone subject to a restraining order from carrying a firearm while under that order. It would also make it illegal for anyone […]
On the same day the Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 treatment for children younger than 12, the Missouri House of Representatives passed the “Required Immunization Liability Act.” If it becomes law, workers who are required to get a vaccine in order to get or keep a job could sue their […]
(Missouri Independent) – A Cole County judge denied the state health department’s attempt to relitigate a case stemming from a 2019 licensing dispute with Missouri’s lone abortion provider and ordered Missouri to pay Planned Parenthood’s legal fees. In a ruling Friday afternoon, Cole County Circuit Court Judge Jon Beetem affirmed an administrative court’s ruling that the […]
(Missouri Independent) – A federal judge in Louisiana said Monday he will block the Biden administration from lifting a public health order that keeps immigrants seeking asylum out of the United States. U.S. District Judge Robert R. Summerhays told Republican state attorneys general and the federal government that he planned to grant the Republicans’ request […]
(Missouri Independent) – Schools in Missouri would be required to test drinking water for lead and install filters if it’s above safe levels, under a bill that won near-unanimous approval Monday in the state Senate. The proposal, amended onto a separate bill by Sen. Jill Schupp, D-Creve Coeur, passed on a 32-1 vote. “Let’s make sure our students, […]
Missouri State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick announced six educational assistance organizations have been certified for 2022. An educational assistance organization is a nonprofit organization that, after approval by the Missouri State Treasurer’s Office, can receive qualified contributions from individuals and businesses to establish MOScholars scholarship accounts for qualified Missouri students. The certified EAOs are: ACSI Children’s […]
The United States Attorney’s Office has announced that Nathan P. Dillinger, age 41, of Dexter, Missouri, has been sentenced to serve 180 months (15 years) in federal prison for the offense of Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Minor. Dillinger appeared for a remote sentencing hearing before United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig. At his […]
United States District Court Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk accepted a plea of guilty from Ryan Kanzler for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, theft of U.S. mail, and access device fraud. Judge Pitlyk set sentencing for August 10, 2022. At sentencing, Kanzler is subject to imprisonment of not more than 5 years, for his plea to […]
Missouri State Highway Patrol, Troop H, to offer a boating safety course to inform boaters to prepare for the upcoming boating season. This approved course meets the national boating educational standard. Missouri law requires everyone born after January 1, 1984, who operates a vessel on Missouri lakes to possess a certified boating safety education card. […]
A couple in St. Louis County is charged with causing the death of their two-year-old son. Marshall Griffin from Missourinet reports: Sixty-eight-year-old Clarence Perry and 36-year-old Angela Dozier are facing felony charges of endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death. The probable cause statement says their two-year-old ingested cocaine and methadone […]
A state lawmaker has a plan to try and recruit primary care physicians to rural Missouri. State Representative Herman Morse, a Republican from southeast Missouri’s Dexter, is proposing to give them a tax credit against their state tax liability of up to 15-thousand dollars annually for five years. Under the bill, the doctors must practice […]
FCS Financial recently selected 35 recipients for their Scholarship Program who will each receive a $1,500 scholarship to assist with the cost of higher education. Since 2004, nearly $775,000 has been distributed through the FCS Financial Scholarship Program. The program is designed to encourage and support higher education for children and grandchildren of FCS Financial […]
(Missouri Independent) – Across the country, attitudes toward cannabis are becoming more permissive and accepting, but partisan gridlock in Congress virtually ensures that legislation to decriminalize marijuana will languish and die in the U.S. Senate. Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act (MORE) by a narrow 220-204 margin. The MORE […]
You may be getting a tax credit from the state of Missouri. Joey Parker has details on a measure that passed the Missouri House on Thursday and moved to the Senate. If passed in the upper chamber, individual Missouri taxpayers would get a $500 credit and married couples one thousand. Nearly 9000 residents […]
The Missouri Senate will get to work next week on the state budget. The current plan would ban Medicaid reimbursements to abortion clinics or any affiliate. State Senator Lauren Arthur, a Democrat from Kansas City, says Planned Parenthood provides a variety of healthcare services, including preventative care. She says the GOP effort does not belong […]
