Missouri House balks at plan for $15 base pay for state jobs
The Missouri House approved a $4.6 billion supplemental spending bill Wednesday that would give all state workers a pay raise. …
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Opinion: Lawmakers need to take swift action on federal education funds
Congress passed, and President Joe Biden signed, the American Rescue Plan 10 months ago, creating the most significant infusion of…
Opinion: Missouri Legislature is targeting education
This year’s session of Missouri’s legislature has been flooded with measures to control what local public schools must do or…
Prosecutor slams Missouri bill as ‘Make Murder Legal Act’
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri senators debated on Tuesday a “stand your ground” bill that backers say will strengthen the…
Opinion: The profound change in Missouri’s legislature
This column is prompted by a question from a long-time statehouse observer as to why Missouri’s legislature has become so…
Education committee puts early focus on parental rights, critical race theory
The first education debate of the 2022 legislative session featured hours of discussion on Tuesday of a proposed “parents’ bill…
Deadlines loom on $5.3B spending bill for Missouri Medicaid, federal COVID aid for schools
With Gov. Mike Parson promising state employees a pay raise by Feb. 1 and the state’s Medicaid program likely to run short…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…