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The Senate amendment would make utilities finish building nuclear power plants before charging customers.
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The Associated Industries of Missouri sees a danger in the state maintaining its budget obligations while transitioning to an expanded sales tax. -
A city team focused on improving U.S. Highway 71 has proposed moving the roadway below ground level, creating narrower lanes and building overpasses to connect neighborhoods east to west. The highway's construction tore through majority-Black neighborhoods in east Kansas City decades ago. -
Two of the five city councilmembers who supported major tax breaks for an AI data center were on the ballot Tuesday. Both were ousted in their respective elections by a large margin. -
The Improve I-70 project will expand 200 miles of the interstate, and cost $2.8 billion. -
The machines have been a flashpoint in Missouri public policy circles for years. -
Missouri sportsbooks generated more tax revenue in the state's third month of legal betting than they did in the first two months combined, according to new Missouri Gaming Commission data.
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States say disaster funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency has slowed to a trickle under the Trump administration. That's delaying projects to protect communities from wildfires and hurricanes. -
Over the past year, the vast majority of new jobs have gone to women. One economist says to help men find work, we need to embrace ways to "make girly jobs appeal to manly men." -
If you keep up with secret identities, you'll get at least one question right this week!
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Voters will decide on two City Council races and three seats on the Columbia School Board in Tuesday’s election. -
Following the theft of coins from City of Columbia parking meters, accessibility advocates are weighing in about whether the city should move to a digital-only operation. -
In 2025, the Alzheimer’s Association says some 226,000 Missourians provided unpaid care to loved ones with dementia. But many caregivers live in rural areas where resources are scarce and could be in danger of further cuts in the state budget. -
Local Motion and City of Refuge teamed up to get personal need supplies for the City of Refuge's clients, all while limiting fossil fuel use. -
Even if you can't make the opening reception this Saturday, April 11, there's still plenty of time to stop by the Montminy Gallery in Columbia and check out 'For the Love of Locals', an art exhibit featuring works by Lisa Bartlett, Jane Mudd and David Spear, who's on the show today along with gallery director Callie Brinkman. April 7, 2026 -
The bills concern divorce, juvenile criminal justice and sex trafficking.
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