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Editorial Roundup: Missouri
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 24, 2024. Editorial: Parson is right to block state payout for defamation. Bailey is wrong, as usual. For months now, this Editorial Board has charted the egregious politicization of the Missouri Attorney General’s office under its...
Editorial Roundup: Missouri
Kansas City Star. May 14, 2024. Editorial: Teens can’t make lifelong commitments. Missouri must ban marriage under age 18 Missouri doesn’t have a stellar record when it comes to protecting young people — young women, especially — from the harms of marrying far...
Missouri senators, not taxpayers, will pay potential damages in Chiefs rally shooting case
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers will have to pay out of their own pockets if they lose defamation cases filed against them for falsely accusing a Kansas man of being one of the Kansas City Chiefs parade shooters and an immigrant in the country illegally. Missouri's...
Missouri candidate with ties to the KKK can stay on the Republican ballot, judge rules
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A longshot Missouri gubernatorial candidat e with ties to the Ku Klux Klan will stay on the Republican ticket, a judge ruled Friday. Cole County Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker denied a request by the Missouri GOP to kick Darrell McClanahan out of the...
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...
