Colonel Eric T. Olson, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, announces the agency will offer another 15-week accelerated academy to law enforcement professionals interested in becoming a trooper. To be eligible, candidates must possess an active Missouri Class A POST license in good standing or be able to obtain one prior to the start […]
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced that his office joined a coalition of 8 states in filing a civil rights lawsuit against Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brooks-Lasure, opposing a new rule that allows higher compensation for doctors who enact an “anti-racism” plan. […]
State Auditor Nicole Galloway announced her office has begun an audit of Dunklin County Reorganized Common Sewer District #1, which serves customers in the Malden area. In 2021, the district was ordered into receivership, which transferred all responsibilities, functions, duties, powers, and authority of the district to the City of Malden. The Malden City Council […]
(Missouri Independent) – An expansive set of proposed changes to Missouri’s open records law backed by Gov. Mike Parson has transparency advocates alarmed that legislators may be poised to undermine the law. The changes touch on everything from narrowing the definitions of “public business” and “public meetings;” closing records that include draft documents or relate […]
(Missouri Independent) – A St. Charles County Circuit Court judge dismissed Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s lawsuit Thursday against the local school district’s now-rescinded mask mandate, leaving few cases from Schmitt’s legal blitz remaining. The City of St. Charles School District was one of 47 districts Schmitt sued earlier this year over mask mandates, and it was one […]
Doyle Equipment Manufacturing and Riverview Manufacturing, worldwide leaders in manufacturing dry fertilizer handling equipment, announced today they are expanding in Palmyra. This joint expansion brings an estimated $1 million investment, and 30 jobs, to northeast Missouri. “Our state’s positive business climate continues to attract significant investment from leading manufacturers like Doyle Manufacturing and Riverview Manufacturing,” […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has food safety inspectors in every large meatpacking plant in the country. Just like the industry’s workers, the government’s inspectors entered the high-risk work spaces almost every day during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sonny Perdue, USDA’s leader during the pandemic’s critical first year, made clear he saw no role for the agency in […]
Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush says if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the Roe versus Wade ruling, the decision would take away safe abortions. The St. Louis Democrat tells MSNBC that the news about the court’s initial opinion “felt like a hammer came down.” Bush says President Biden has options to still allow the […]
(Missouri Independent) – Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens will get to look at his ex-wife’s telephone records from the days before she filed explosive allegations of child and spousal abuse against the Republican Senate candidate. In an order dated April 28, Associate Circuit Judge Leslie Schneider overruled Sheena Greitens’ motion to quash subpoenas for her phone logs […]
(Missouri Independent) – A years-long effort to halt the development of a massive electrical transmission line across Missouri gave way early Thursday morning to a compromise bill endorsed by the energy company. For years, Chicago-based Invenergy has been developing a 4,000-megawatt transmission line, called Grain Belt Express, expected to carry clean energy from southwest Kansas across Missouri and […]
In a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) pressed Secretary of the Army Christine E. Wormuth and Chief of Staff of the Army General James C. McConville for answers about military housing at Fort Leonard Wood. Last June, Senator Hawley asked the Secretary and General McConville for information about the Army’s plans to replace […]
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry filed suit against President Biden and other top-ranking government officials for allegedly working with social media giants such as Meta, Twitter, and Youtube to censor and suppress free speech, including truthful information, related to COVID-19, election integrity, and other topics, under the guise of […]
The University of Missouri Office of Student Accountability and Support (OSAS) under the Division of Student Affairs took an important step in their investigation of an incident resulting in the alcohol poisoning of an incoming fraternity member during the early hours of Oct. 20, 2021, at the now-closed Mizzou chapter of Phi Gamma Delta (also […]
The Department of Public Safety today announced details of two ceremonies that will be held on May 6 and 7 at the Missouri Law Enforcement Memorial on the grounds of the State Capitol to honor Missouri law enforcement officers who paid the ultimate price for protecting their communities. On Friday evening, May 6, a candlelight […]
The Missouri Legislature is scrambling to pass the next state budget by Friday’s deadline. During Wednesday’s House and Senate negotiations, committee members went back and forth about what level to raise Missouri’s minimum K-12 teacher pay to. State Representative Rusty Black, a Republican from northwest Missouri’s Chillicothe, says the education community in his district prefers […]
Missouri and the nation continue to debate as the Supreme Court may likely overturn the Roe vs. Wade decision that made abortion legal in the U.S. Ours is a so-called trigger state which would make abortions illegal in Missouri should the high court do as the leaked opinion suggests. Although Missouri has only one clinic […]
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt secured roughly $2.5 million in restitution from the owner of TurboTax, Intuit Inc. (Intuit), for deceiving consumers into paying for tax services that should have been free. As a result of a multistate agreement, Intuit will pay $141 million in restitution to millions of consumers across the nation who were […]
Representative Sam Graves, has received the the2021 NOSORH Legislator of the Year Award from the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health. Officials from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Office of Rural Health and Primary Care nominated Graves and presented him with the award on Tuesday at Hannibal Regional Healthcare System. Paula Nickelson, who presented Graves […]
(Missouri Independent) – A record state operating budget that a top legislative Republican said “has a little bit of something for everyone” is heading for final votes in the Missouri General Assembly as tax revenue continues to pour into the treasury in historic amounts. Final figures weren’t available Wednesday, but the spending plan that emerged from a […]
State Budget Director Dan Haug announced that net general revenue collections for April 2022 increased 40.8 percent compared to those for April 2021, from $952.9 million last year to $1.34 billion this year. Net general revenue collections for 2022 fiscal year-to-date increased 9.4 percent compared to April 2021, from $8.80 billion last year to $9.63 […]
