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Missouri Treasurer Joins Push Against Biden Effort To Get Banks To Drop Coal - Across Missouri, MO - The move comes in response to efforts by the Biden administration to get banks to help reduce U.S. carbon emissions.

Members of a conference committee speak on May 12, 2021, about a law enforcement bill. The legislation, which includes a ban on police chokeholds and use of force database, passed the Senate with minimal opposition. The bill would ban police from using chokeholds and would establish a use of force database for departments. It also eliminates the residency requirement for the Kansas City Police Department. The Missouri Senate approved wide-ranging law enforcement changes on Wednesday. It’s a ...

St. Louis Public Radio Members of a conference committee speak on Wednesday about a law enforcement bill. The legislation, which includes a ban on police chokeholds and use of force database, passed the Senate with minimal opposition. The Missouri Senate approved wide-ranging law enforcement changes on Wednesday. The bill includes a host of ideas that have been pushed since Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, as well as the removal of the residency requirement for the Kansas City Police Depa...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - First restaurants now retail. With crowds slowly returning to pre-pandemic levels, dozens of stores at the Oak Park Mall are looking to fill more than 100 positions. From May 19 to 23, businesses at the mall looking for help will have a bright yellow Now Hiring sign indicating they have positions to fill. Northland Designs Future Clay County taxpayers have spent $4.9 million on a controversial government annex project very few people wanted, according to the latest county ...

Greenlights Kansas City location on East Bannister Road. Greenlight Dispensary advertises 16 medical marijuana locations across Missouri, from Cape Girardeau to Kansas City, and all points in between. Justice Grown, a Pennsylvania-based company, has ties to 14 dispensaries in Missouri. Yet Missouri’s constitution prohibits the state from granting more than five dispensary licenses to any single entity or individual. The goal was to avoid a medical marijuana monopoly that could drive up costs...

Missouri Senate-House bill boosts protections for police, punishment for protests The House and Senate will soon confer on a bill to boost protections for police officers and to boost penalties for repeated protesting in public streets. Senate Bill 26, deemed “the public safety bill of the session” by supporters, also comes with an array of amendments tacked on by the House Tuesday. The original bill by St. Charles County Senator Bill Eigel creates detailed conditions for a police conduct i...

Randall Williams, testifies before a Missouri legislative committee. (Photo by Tim Bommel of the Missouri state House staff) Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is refusing to release Williams’ resignation letter despite routine releases of such letters in past administrations A week out from Randall Williams’ resignation as Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s health director, there remains little clarity on what spurred his sudden departure. On Monday, the governor’s office refused to release a copy of...

The face of Missouri’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic resigns © Tim Bommel /MissouriNet Dr. Randall Williams The face of Missouri’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis – Dr. Randall Williams – resigned on Tuesday, according to Gov. Mike Parson’s office. Parson said he accepted Williams’ resignation. Parson said he appointed Deputy Chief of Staff Robert Knodell as the Acting Director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Sign up for our Newsletters No reason was...

/ Missouri could implement a three-week period when a voter could cast an absentee ballot in person for any reason. Lawmakers could be chipping away at Missouri’s excuse-based absentee ballot system by creating a three-week period in which voters can cast their ballots early in person. But even though that proposal appears to have momentum, some election officials believe that the idea is still too restrictive — and largely keeps in place an ineffective excuse-based system that scares voter...

/ Missouri House Budget Chair Cody Smith, R-Carthage, presents the states spending plan for the fiscal year that begins on July 1. The Missouri House of Representatives passed its version of the $34.6 billion state budget on Thursday, leaving out funding for the voter-approved expansion of Medicaid. It was a move that was expected after the Republicans on the Budget Committee unanimously voted down a bill to fund expansion last week. Budget Chair Cody Smith, R-Carthage, had previously segregat...