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Springfield city building inspectors say they are monitoring situation at Jenny Lind Hall affordable housing apartments where both elevators that serve the six-story building are inoperable, leaving disabled residents on higher floors with no access to the ground level other than stairs.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Self-advocates and advocates from across the state are invited to the Missouri State Capitol from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 1 for Disability Rights
View Comments A coalition of Missouri nonpartisan voter-issues groups and progressives plans to make their case for voting reform this weekend. On Saturday, they plan coordinated public demonstrations in five Missouri cities: Springfield, St. Louis, Kansas City, Jefferson City and Cape Girardeau. Denise Lieberman, a civil-rights attorney with Missouri Voter Protection Coalition, said in a call from St. Louis on Friday morning that MVPC and roughly 10 Springfield-area partners are working in concert with similar groups in more than 150 U.S. cities, invoking the memory of civil rights hero ...