The End Of Stimulus Funds: Missouri's Budget Takes Center Stage
As Missouri lawmakers return to session this week, they’ll face a multitude of tasks, but front and center will be the state’s budget. Missouri faces a challenging year, with a major source of revenue...
View ArticleSnips, Cuts And Slashes In Missouri
Higher education is on the chopping block once again in Jefferson City.
View ArticleNixon To Ease Higher Education Cuts
The bad news eased a bit for Missouri higher education this afternoon. Governor Nixon's office released a statement saying $40 million of the recommended funding cuts for next year will be restored to...
View ArticleNixon Wants Money For Vets’ Homes, Blind Pensions
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon is urging lawmakers to fund veterans’ homes, pensions for the blind and other specific needs in the still-unfinished state budget.
View ArticleHouse Rejects Senate Budget Bills
The Missouri House rejected most of the budget bills passed last week by the Senate. The move was part of the normal procedure for preparing for final budget negotiations.
View ArticleNixon Wants More Money For Education
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon says his budget for next year will expand funding for education for students of all ages.
View ArticleMissouri House Set To Begin Budget Debate
The Missouri House will begin debate Tuesday on the 13 bills that make up next year’s state budget. The three bills that encompass the state’s Medicaid program don’t include Governor Jay Nixon’s...
View ArticleMissouri House OKs Budget, Rejects Medicaid Expansion
The Missouri House has given first-round approval to the state budget for Fiscal Year 2014, while House Republicans beat back three attempts to expand Medicaid.
View ArticleMissouri House Passes $25 Billion Budget
Missouri’s budget for the next fiscal year has been passed by the State House. While Medicaid expansion has dominated most of the debate, spending hikes were approved in other areas.The nearly $25...
View ArticleBecoming one with the butterflies
It’s National Pollinator Week, and butterfly farmers in Kansas and around the U.S. are raising awareness about how habitat loss, pesticide use and climate change are killing off our pollinators. Plus:...
View ArticleCould Missouri kill an innocent man? Lawyers say evidence clears Marcellus...
Marcellus Williams’ execution was put on hold in 2017 after new DNA evidence came to light. But Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says there’s not enough evidence to postpone it further.
View ArticleAs Boeing looks to buy a key 737 supplier in Kansas, whistleblower says the...
Boeing says a deal to buy fuselage-maker Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas, will help it control quality and safety. But a whistleblower who worked at Spirit for over a decade warns its problems...
View ArticleEl clima en Kansas City se está volviendo extremadamente caliente. Esto es lo...
En los próximos días, la zona metropolitana de Kansas City experimentará las temperaturas más altas en lo que va del año, con índices de calor por arriba de 100. Encuentre una guía de lugares donde...
View ArticleThe heroic adventures of Alvin Brooks
Alvin Brooks’ life has become the stuff of legend around Kansas City. Now, a new film by Academy Award-winner Kevin Wilmott details it for the big screen.
View ArticleMissouri Attorney General seeks to block freedom for woman found innocent...
Sandra Hemme has spent 43 years in Missouri prison for a grisly 1980 murder that her lawyers say was actually committed by a police officer. A judge overturned her conviction last week, but the...
View ArticleMissouri prison warden replaced after inmate death investigation
Othel Moore died at the Jefferson City Correctional Center in December while restrained and in isolation. Four corrections officers were fired in March for their actions related to his death.
View ArticleKansas Democrats aim to break the GOP supermajority
In Kansas, issues like abortion restrictions and transgender rights might hinge on whether Republicans can keep their powerful majorities in the Statehouse. Democrats have set their sights on breaking...
View ArticleMissouri GOP tries to kick ‘honorary KKK member’ out of Republican governor...
An attorney for Darrell McClanahan III says the party’s appeal is too late to deny him a spot on the ballot in August.
View ArticleLivestock groups call on Congress to restore labeling requirements for meat...
Congress ended mandatory labeling for pork and beef in 2015. Now some livestock groups want to see labeling requirements included in the upcoming farm bill that would make it clear where livestock was...
View ArticleKansas City Chiefs rally shooting survivors wait for promised donations while...
Families of the people hurt during the Feb. 14 mass shooting are carrying what one expert calls “victimization debt.” In the third story of our series “The Injured,” we learn about the strain of paying...
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