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'Who do they work for': On day Medicaid expansion would have started, Missourians protest


‘Who do they work for’: On day Medicaid expansion would have started, Missourians protest
Tessa Weinberg and Rudi Keller
Missouri Independent
Protesters had a special delivery for Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday, but they couldn’t reach him.
On the day more than 275,000 Missourians would have been eligible to enroll in Medicaid if the voter-approved expansion had gone into effect, a dozen clergy members stood in the entrance to the Missouri Department of Transportation offices with a box in hand.
In it were transcripts from more than 150 Missourians who had called to leave Parson a message. There was Susan from Joplin, Phillip from St. Louis, Elizabeth from Wentworth. ....

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'Who do they work for': On day Medicaid expansion would have started, Missourians protest


‘Who do they work for’: On day Medicaid expansion would have started, Missourians protest
Tessa Weinberg and Rudi Keller
Missouri Independent
Protesters had a special delivery for Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday, but they couldn’t reach him.
On the day more than 275,000 Missourians would have been eligible to enroll in Medicaid if the voter-approved expansion had gone into effect, a dozen clergy members stood in the entrance to the Missouri Department of Transportation offices with a box in hand.
In it were transcripts from more than 150 Missourians who had called to leave Parson a message. There was Susan from Joplin, Phillip from St. Louis, Elizabeth from Wentworth. ....

United States , Cole County , Jon Beetem , J Bennett Clark , Heidi Miller , Peter Merideth , Karen Brickey , Booker Shaw , Thompson Coburn , Tori Jameson , Leighton Paisner , Lowell Pearson , Teresa Danieley , Tessa Weinberg , Eric Schmitt , Emmet Baker , Wesley Reed , Chuck Hatfield , Rudi Keller , Missouri Department Of Transportation , Louis Regional Health Commission , Cole County Circuit Court , Circuit Court , Supreme Court , Missouri Supreme Court , Service Employees International Union ,

Republicans Move to Limit a Grass-Roots Tradition of Direct Democracy


Republicans Move to Limit a Grass-Roots Tradition of Direct Democracy
Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti
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Boxes of ballot initiative petitions were delivered to the Missouri secretary of state’s office in Jefferson City in May 2020. Republican lawmakers have since refused to carry out the Medicaid expansion that voters favored in November.
In 2008, deep-blue California banned same-sex marriage. In 2018, steadfastly conservative Arkansas and Missouri increased their minimum wage. And last year, Republican-controlled Arizona and Montana legalized recreational marijuana.
These moves were all the product of ballot initiatives, a century-old fixture of American democracy that allows voters to bypass their legislatures to enact new laws, often with results that defy the desires of the state’s elected representatives. While they have been a tool of both parties in the past, Democrats have been particularly succe ....

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