Missouri legislature
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Politics
Parson calls special session, setting up debate on contraceptives, Planned Parenthood
A special session to extend provider taxes essential to the state’s Medicaid program will begin at noon Wednesday, Gov. Mike Parson announced…
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Politics
Missouri lawmakers didn’t cancel debts from unemployment benefit mistakes
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — State lawmakers left tens of thousands of Missouri residents facing big debts by failing to pass…
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Opinion
Opinion: When all public schools thrive, our communities will, too
We learned a great deal about the educational needs of our children through this painful past year of the COVID…
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Politics
Ashcroft urges Missouri Senate to shut down debate for Medicaid funding
Republicans in the Missouri Senate should move to shut down debate if a filibuster blocks anti-abortion lawmakers from putting their stamp…
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Opinion
Jaco: Tired yet of Missouri stealing your vote?
The Missouri Home for the Criminally Insane — you know, the one in Jefferson City with a dome where the…
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Politics
Group wants to send gas tax hike passed by Legislature to Missouri voters
A conservative anti-tax group wants Missourians to decide whether they will pay extra for gas starting in October as a bill…
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Politics
High-profile gun bill would thwart federal efforts to combat gun violence
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature passed a high-profile measure to ban local enforcement of federal gun laws with…
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Coronavirus
Bill to shield businesses from most COVID lawsuits heads to governor
In the last hour of the 2021 legislative session, the Missouri House sent a sweeping bill that would shield businesses…
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Politics
Dropping emissions testing could prompt U.S. to slap sanctions on Missouri
JEFFERSON CITY – With just hours left in their 2021 session, Missouri lawmakers passed legislation removing several St. Louis area…
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Business
Online retailers face paying Missouri sales tax
In legislative jargon, it’s called the Wayfair fix. What it means is a change in state law that makes online…
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Police Accountability
Missouri passes bill to limit police use of chokeholds
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri’s Legislature passed on Thursday a wide-ranging bill that would, among other things, limit when police…
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Crime
Missouri lawmakers close to approving bill targeting protesters who block traffic
A push to crack down on protesters who block roads, to penalize cities that cut police budgets and to bolster…
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Politics
Lawmakers strike deal on crime bill after Parson’s veto threat
JEFFERSON CITY – House leadership backed off its insistence that a wide-ranging crime bill include stiffer penalties for lying under…
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Education
Bill for limited Missouri school voucher program passes
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers passed on Thursday a bill to allow a tax credit program to help pay…
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Politics
Black religious leaders decry Missouri bills as biased
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Black religious leaders rallied Thursday at the Missouri Capitol and met with political leaders to denounce…
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Opinion
Jaco: White nationalist fear in your kid’s school
History, Napoleon wrote, is a lie agreed upon. White nationalists in the Missouri General Assembly won’t read Napoleon in the…
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Politics
As session nears end, state legislators scramble for LGBTQ protections
With progress stalled and the legislative session nearly over, a bipartisan group of lawmakers hoping to outlaw discrimination against LGBTQ…
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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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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
COVID cases force shutdown of Missouri House
The Missouri House of Representatives will not meet next week because of an outbreak of COVID-19 in the Capitol Building,…
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News
Missouri House denounces Rep. Price for alleged harassment
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — The Missouri House has formally denounced Rep. Wiley Price, D-St. Louis, who is accused of having…
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Coronavirus
Tech-averse Missouri Senate makes changes because of virus
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri’s tradition-bound Senate is installing an audio monitoring system in its committee hearing rooms so employees,…
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Featured
Missouri bill to drop police residency rule heads to governor
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis police, firefighters and other first responders no longer would have to live in that…
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Coronavirus
Top bills OK’d by Missouri lawmakers as session ends
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri lawmakers rushed to pass as many bills as possible on the final day of the…
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Coronavirus
Missouri lawmakers OK mail-in voting on final day of work
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri lawmakers wrapped up their work Friday by passing bills allowing people to vote by mail…
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Coronavirus
Missouri lawmakers plan to resume work amid coronavirus
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A top Republican lawmaker says the Missouri Legislature is tentatively scheduled to return to work at…
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Opinion
The Jaco Report, Ep. 29: Dismantling ‘Obamacare’ and the silence of the scams in Missouri health care
The bloviating GOP majority that has a stranglehold on Missouri politics is uncharacteristically silent about their attempts to mangle health…
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Opinion
Jaco: The totalitarianism of Missouri anti-abortion laws
Like all totalitarian movements, the anti-abortion jihad that wants to force women to give birth and has left the Planned…
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