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As local leaders are considering an expansion to the Boone County Jail, the Columbia No New Jail Coalition is pushing back.
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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 Senate amendment would make utilities finish building nuclear power plants before charging customers. -
This final passage came after the Senate expanded the protections from just antisemitism to include all hate speech and discrimination.
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