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Editorial Roundup: Missouri
Kansas City Star. May 8, 2024. Editorial: Kansas City is not trying to defund its police. The Missouri Supreme Court was right We’ve long held that Kansas Citians and Kansas Citians alone should have the final say in how the city spends taxpayer dollars on policing....
Filibuster by Missouri Democrats stretches into a second day. What's the fight about?
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A nonstop, overnight filibuster by Democratic lawmakers in the Missouri Senate passed the 24-hour point on Tuesday as they try to reign in a Republican proposal to make it harder to amend the state constitution. Lawmakers face a 6 p.m. Friday deadline to...
Children are dying of fentanyl by the dozens in Missouri. A panel is calling for changes
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Fentanyl deaths among Missouri babies, toddlers and teens spiked as child welfare officials struggled to adequately investigate the cases, a state panel found in a newly released report. Forty-three youth died — 20 of them under the age of 4 — in 2022...
Missouri abortion-rights campaign turns in more than double the needed signatures to get on ballot
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Advocates on Friday turned in more than twice the needed number of signatures to put a proposal to legalize abortion on the Missouri ballot this year. The campaign said it turned in more than 380,000 voter signatures — more than double the minimum...
Campaign to legalize sports betting in Missouri gets help from mascots to haul voter signatures
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's professional sports teams on Thursday turned in more than 340,000 voter signatures to put a ballot proposal to legalize sports betting before voters this November. The campaign had help from Cardinals’ mascot Fredbird, Royals’ Sluggerrr...
Missouri Senate filibuster ends with vote on multibillion-dollar Medicaid program
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A dayslong filibuster in the Missouri Senate ended Thursday after a Republican faction allowed a vote on a more than $4 billion Medicaid program they had been holding hostage. Senators gave initial approval in a voice vote to a bill that will renew a...
Missouri Supreme Court strikes down 2022 vote on KC police funding, citing faulty fiscal note
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday took the unusual step of striking down a 2022 voter-approved constitutional amendment that required Kansas City to spend a larger percentage of its money on the police department, and ordered that the issue go back before voters in November. The...
Editorial Roundup: Missouri
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. April 28, 2024. Editorial: Missourians have one week left to help get abortion rights on the ballot Missourians who believe that women have an inalienable right to decide what happens inside their own bodies could be forgiven for browsing the...
Editorial Roundup: Missouri
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. March 29, 2024. Editorial: State bid to control city police is a partisan stunt based on a false narrative To borrow from Ronald Reagan’s classic line about intrusive government: The 10 most terrifying words in the English language for St....
Lawsuit challenging Indiana abortion ban survives a state challenge
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Court of Appeals gave an incremental win Thursday to a group of residents suing the state over its near-total abortion ban, arguing that it violates a state law protecting religious freedom. The three-judge panel's ruling agreed with a lower court...
