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House OKs plan allowing state officials to restrict public health orders issued by local governments


House OKs plan allowing state officials to restrict public health orders issued by local governments
Austin Huguelet, Springfield News-Leader
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About 150 people lined both sides of Battlefield Road near Glenstone Avenue on Saturday, April 25, 2020, to protest the stay-at-home order and to urge the mayor and governor to let people get back to work. Sam Stoyeff, one of the organizers of the protest, said, Everyone needs to work. It s essential to work. We don t think that fear should outweigh people s constitutional rights.
JEFFERSON CITY The Missouri House gave initial approval to a plan giving elected officials more say in public health decisions during and after the pandemic this week.

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