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While the Missouri Senate is expected to zero in on a measure making it harder to amend the constitution, the House looks to finish work on reauthorizing a key tax to fund the state’s Medicaid program.
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Mizzou softball is back in the NCAA Tournament.
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A group turned in more than 200,000 signatures backing the effort to eventually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the food program for low-income individuals — has become one of the hottest topics in farm bill negotiations, as congressional Republicans seek more changes.
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Missouri’s attorney general went looking for complaints about trans care. He got something else.
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The trend was already underway when the COVID-19 pandemic pushed rural and small-town nursing homes to close permanently. Yet, some communities are finding ways today to re-envision nursing homes while keeping staff at the forefront.
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Missouri could be the first test of a more aggressive strategy to keep abortion off the ballot and out of the state constitution.
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Missouri child abuse investigators missed warning signs of fentanyl use among parents before their young children died of accidental overdoses from the drug, according to a new state report. It found that Children's Division investigators, who are tasked with following up on claims of abuse and neglect, "lacked essential procedures, missed warning signs and left vulnerable children at risk." Jessica Seitz, executive director of the Missouri Network Against Child Abuse, joins the show. She also helped put the report together.
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Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office argues the three Republican lawmakers are protected by ‘legislative immunity’.
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Latino men's basketball has been a Westside tradition since the 1950s. An iconic basketball tournament that honors a former youth coach in the neighborhood, Tony Aguirre, has been paired with Cinco de Mayo weekend celebrations to raise money for local Latino sports.
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Drug overdoses have killed more than 23,000 Missourians in the last two decades. Many of those were involved fentanyl and other potent opioids.
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The majority of the pollutants released by Tyson in the five years the study examines were in the Midwestern states of Nebraska, Illinois and Missouri.