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Transgender advocates gather in Jefferson City to fight bills

January 27, 2023

BY EMMA J. MURPHY AND CAMDEN DOHERTY missouri news network Jan. 24, 2023 JEFFERSON CITY — The House Committee on General Laws spent hours...

Assembly eyes limiting foreign ownership of agricultural land

January 27, 2023

BY CLAYTON VICKERS missouri news network Jan. 24, 2023 Both the Missouri House and Senate are considering bills that aim at the same...

State House committee aims to address mental health crisis

January 27, 2023

BY EVY LEWIS missouri news network January 23, 2023 JEFFERSON CITY — With new reports on the urgent condition of mental health care across...

House committee debates public defender funding and other bills

January 27, 2023

BY SAMANTHA DIETEL missouri news network Jan. 23, 2023 The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony Monday about a bill that would create a...

Senate bill proposes an end to corporate income taxes

January 27, 2023

BY EMMA J. MURPHY missouri news network Jan. 23, 2023 JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri has one of the lowest corporate income tax rates in the...

Senate considering changes to purging voter rolls

January 27, 2023

BY KONRAD STRZALKA missouri news network Jan. 23, 2023 JEFFERSON CITY — A bill that would implement steps to purge inactive voters from the...

Capitol Perspectives: Improving the Sunshine Law

January 25, 2023

By Phill Brooks The 50-year golden anniversary of Missouri's Sunshine Law has led me to reflect on what could be done to restore the vision of...

Bill proposed to hold the line on personal property tax increases

January 23, 2023

BY OLIVIA SKLENKA AND CLAYTON VICKERS MISSOURI NEWS NETWORK JEFFERSON CITY — A bill that would hold the line on personal property tax increases...

Postpartum Medicaid expansion gets support at hearing

January 23, 2023

BY ALYSE PFEIL Missouri News Network JEFFERSON CITY — Witnesses from nearly 30 organizations testified in support of extending Medicaid...

Parents' Bill of Rights debated at Senate hearing

January 23, 2023

BY MELISSA JACQUES Missouri News Network JEFFERSON CITY — Arguments over prohibiting Critical Race Theory and increasing parental rights in...

Parson's budget pitch resonates with Senate leaders

January 23, 2023

BY CAMDEN DOHERTY MISSOURI NEWS NETWORK JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri Senate leaders on both sides of the aisle expressed their support Thursday...

Parson delivers State of the State address

January 23, 2023

BY ALLIE FEINBERG, BROOKE MUCKERMAN, GRACE JACOBS AND EMMET JAMIESON; PHOTOS BY MOLLY MILLER MISSOURI NEWS NETWORK JEFFERSON CITY — In his...

J.E. “Jody” McReynolds (standing) is pictured here as Lewis County’s Circuit Clerk with 2nd Judicial Circuit Judge William E. Stewart in the mid-1960’s. McReynolds is the great-grandfather of newly sworn-in Circuit Clerk Julie George.

Circuit Clerk Following Family Roots

January 4, 2023

With the swearing-in of Julie George as Lewis County’s new Circuit Clerk, she assumes an office once held by her Great-Grandfather. From 1955 until...

The 50th Anniversary of Missouri's Sunshine Law

December 29, 2022

By Phill Brooks The fall of 2023 will be the 50th anniversary of the legislative birth of Missouri's Sunshine Law that provides the public with sweeping rights to...

Highway Patrol Missing Person

December 21, 2022

The Missouri State Highway Patrol released the following news release. On Friday, December 17, 2021, at around 4:24 PM the Monroe County Sheriff’s...

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