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The National Federation of the Blind held its annual legislative agenda days Monday and Tuesday.

Missouri now has a website intended to reduce suicides among service members, veterans and their families.

Missouri now has a website intended to reduce suicides among service members, veterans and their families.

Missouri lawmakers are looking to clean up statutes surrounding state employment processes by eliminating an advisory board and consolidating power in a position with a new appointee.

Committee hearings are where most of the action is occurring right now in the House of Representatives. On Tuesday evening, a general laws hearing was very popular. This hearing began at 4:30 p.m. and did not adjourn until 1:45 a.m. The agriculture policy committee I serve on attracted a great deal of attention this week as we heard four similar bills which want to limit or eliminate foreign ownership of land in Missouri.

The magic in "magic mushrooms" may be the ability to defeat post-traumatic stress disorder, and a St. Charles County Republican lawmaker wants to make them legal in a treatment setting.

Missouri state Rep. Tony Lovasco says a growing body of research means Missouri should make treatment with the psilocybin mushrooms legal.

Missouri Speaker of the House Dean Plocher appointed Rep. Dave Griffith, a Jefferson City Republican, to serve on the Missouri Veterans Commission on Thursday.

The Missouri House of Representatives appointed Rep. Dave Griffith as commissioner of the Missouri Veterans Commission.

A biweekly pay option for state employees is once again appearing in committees in both chambers of the Missouri Legislature.