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Bram Sable-Smith/KHNVoters in Missouri and Oklahoma approved Medicaid expansion to begin in 2021. But while Oklahoma has enrolled over 200,000 people so far, Missouri has enrolled fewer than 20,000. Why are two such similar states handling the public insurance rollout so differently? -
Tessa Weinberg/Missouri IndependentThe City of St. Louis has asked a judge to strike down a wide-ranging bill that boosts protections for police under investigation for misconduct.
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Less than $1.8 million allocated for the initiative has been distributed. -
Jurisdictions with mask mandates averaged 15.8 cases per day for every 100,000 residents, compared to 21.7 in unmasked communities.
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Both political parties have introduced proposals for a bill of rights aimed at parents with children in schools.
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"Making History" was supposed to be on display in the Missouri State Museum in the Capitol until Dec. 26, but it was removed within days of its installation in September after GOP lawmakers complained to the governor's office.
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COVID-19 cases rose 20%, hospitalizations 30% since the end of October
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When it comes to the wealth gap, a college degree “doesn’t serve as an equalizer among Black and white families,” said Lowell Ricketts, a data scientist with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked high housing prices all across the country in places long insulated from them. Remote, rural towns where real estate prices remained low for decades are now seeing unprecedented price spikes, which are compounding problems for the rural poor.
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Wild turkey populations in Missouri have taken a nosedive in the past 15 years. Biologists say the declines are connected to dwindling numbers of baby turkeys statewide.
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A federal judge in St. Louis on Monday temporarily barred the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from requiring health care workers in Missouri and nine other states to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Since the state of Missouri will not be compensating Kevin Strickland for the decades he spent wrongfully imprisoned, thousands of donors from across the country are making sure he has the support he needs.
