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Politics
Missouri Republicans renew push to change how judges are selected
Fed up with “Boss Tom” Pendergast’s political machine abusing the state’s judicial system, Missourians changed the constitution in 1940 to…
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Coronavirus
Under short-lived committee, some businesses jumped vaccine line
In the span of 10 minutes in late February, a panel of state officials signed off on nearly 1,300 people…
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Coronavirus
Days after all Missouri adults are eligible for vaccine, state expects fewer doses
Missouri officials expect to see hundreds of thousands of fewer vaccine doses than anticipated next week, just days after eligibility…
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Politics
Prescription drug monitoring program is finally near for Missouri
Missouri is one step closer to shedding its designation as the only state in the country without a prescription drug…
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Opinion
Holding Medicaid hostage over birth control defies law and reason
While playing politics with health care in Missouri is certainly nothing new, holding Missouri Medicaid hostage over basic birth control…
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Politics
Missouri House sends budget to Senate without Medicaid expansion funding
Republicans in the Missouri House finalized their plan to block funding for voter-approved Medicaid expansion on Thursday, giving final approval…
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Politics
Missouri sues over tax cut penalties in federal COVID-19 relief bill
Missouri became on Monday the first state to challenge a punitive provision of the $1.9 billion federal COVID-19 relief bill signed early…
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Politics
Missouri lawmakers push to shield constituent data from Sunshine disclosure
A bill seeking to ensure that if a resident’s email address or telephone number was submitted to receive a government…
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Coronavirus
How Missouri’s public health defunding led to vaccination chaos
Missourians have driven hours to find vaccines in rural counties — at least those people with cars and the time…
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Coronavirus
GOP lawmakers vote down funding for Missouri Medicaid expansion
A partisan battle over Medicaid expansion in the House Budget Committee ended Thursday with a vote against spending $1.9 billion…
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Politics
Push to limit local health orders dies on bipartisan vote
More than a year into the COVID-19 virus’ spread in Missouri, a push to restrain local officials’ authority to issue…
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Police Accountability
Chokehold ban, repeal of KC police residency rule advance
A bill banning police chokeholds and repealing a requirement that Kansas City police officers reside within the city received initial…
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Coronavirus
Most vaccinators don’t use Missouri registration system
Jill Anderson’s weekends are consumed sitting at a desk in her home in Webster Groves, hunting down COVID-19 vaccine appointments…
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Coronavirus
Surge in child hunger overwhelms wealthy counties
Alexandra Sierra carried boxes of food to her kitchen counter, where her 7-year-old daughter, Rachell, stirred a pitcher of lemonade.…
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Politics
Budget plan shows first Missouri savings from Medicaid changes
The first examples of what Missouri taxpayers will save in the coming fiscal year as the federal government shoulders a…
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Coronavirus
‘Vaccine passports’ that show you’re inoculated are on the way
WASHINGTON — More than 70 million Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine — and along…
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Coronavirus
Missouri child care providers wait months for payment
For Aaliyah Bailey, a single mother in St. Peters, Missouri’s child care subsidy program wasn’t there when she needed it…
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Coronavirus
COVID-19 vaccination will open to all Missourians on April 9
Early next month, every adult in Missouri will be eligible to receive a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as the…
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Politics
College Church helps St. Louisans get crucial IDs
MIDTOWN – Edna Scott and Juan Chambers arrived early at St. Francis Xavier College Church on Tuesday morning. The line…
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Politics
$26,000 fee for public records on ‘alternative to abortion’ program
When the reproductive-rights watchdog Equity Forward received an invoice for its records request to the Missouri Department of Social Services,…
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Opinion
Celebration of openness has special urgency
A year ago this week, the world descended into the throes of the COVID-19 crisis. It’s fitting that our year…
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Coronavirus
Vaccine is slow to reach Black Missourians
When the pandemic hit St. Louis last March, it soon became clear that the majority of COVID hospital patients were coming…
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Coronavirus
Year into pandemic, Missouri data miss 80,000 cases, 1,000 deaths
The Hickory County Health Department reported 853 total local COVID-19 cases in its weekly update Friday, five more than a week…
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Coronavirus
Adding antigen tests to Missouri COVID-19 report will boost positive case counts
Data on COVID-19 infections that local health departments have been reporting for months – and telling their residents represent the…
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Crime
In blow for reform prosecutors, no new trial in 1995 murder case
Nearly two years ago, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner filed a motion for a new trial for Lamar Johnson,…
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Health
Spending bill for Medicaid expansion raises questions of intent
The $1.6 billion cost of expanding Medicaid to approximately 275,000 uninsured Missourians has been segregated from other spending in the…
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Coronavirus
School choice bills face both success and gridlock
It was a mixed week for education reform in the Missouri legislature, with historic success in one chamber and gridlock…
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Coronavirus
After vaccination outrage, Parson vows more urban events
Last week, multiple mass vaccination events in rural areas neared the end of the day with hundreds of doses still…
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Coronavirus
Schools to get $123 million as Parson releases budget withholdings
Missouri public schools will receive $123 million withheld from the state education budget, as Gov. Mike Parson announced Monday that…
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News
Missouri Republicans look to reinstate voter ID requirement
About 137,700 registered voters in Missouri had no state-issued identification in 2017, according to an analysis from the Secretary of State’s…
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