WOODSTOCK, Ill. – Illinois Republican candidate for governor, Gary Rabine, is calling on lawmakers to reject efforts to overturn the state’s parental notification laws during the Veto Session. Far-left extremists in the House and the Senate are pushing legislation to repeal Illinois’s current law requiring parental or guardian notification whenever a minor 17 years and […]
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STE. GENEVIEVE – The FDA and ACIP have approved Moderna and Janssen (Johnson and Johnson) COVID-19 vaccines for use as booster shots, and the shots could be available to Ste. Genevieve County residents soon. Ste. Genevieve County Health Department Director Jennifer Mueller said in an email Thursday that her guess is it would be next
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WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) spoke on the Senate floor to criticize the misguided policies in Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reckless tax-and-spend spree. Blunt slammed Democrats’ decision to press ahead with their massive, partisan spending at a time when Americans are facing skyrocketing inflation and businesses are struggling to find workers. Blunt
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By Garrett Hawkins It seems like every time I wake up and scroll through the headlines, talk of climate change is in the national news. The debate about climate policy has been heating up for several years, but recently it has felt like “carbon” or “climate” are in every sentence coming out of
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JEFFERSON CITY — Winners of the fifth and final drawing of Missouri’s Vaccine Incentive Program (MO VIP) were announced today at MOStopsCovid.com/win. Since Governor Mike Parson announced the launch of the program on July 21, MO VIP has been incentivizing COVID-19 vaccination, while also providing an opportunity for rewards for the Missourians who had already
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STE. GENEVIEVE – The draft minutes of the Ste. Genevieve County School District R-II Board of Education Regular Session Meeting Minutes from October 19, 2021 have been released. A video of the meeting is now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFTZKrIZymo The draft minutes:
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JEFFERSON CITY – Snowy weather is just around the corner. In preparation, the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) is holding its annual winter operations drill today. With high turnover rates and many positions still open, the training is more critical than ever. “With nearly 20 percent of our plow operators with less than one year
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JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri non-farm payroll employment increased from August 2021 to September 2021, and the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased by a two-tenths of a percentage point. Employment, seasonally adjusted, increased by 7,500 jobs over the month, with job gains in service-providing industries. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.8 percent in September
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CHESTER — The Randolph County Health Department reported seven new cases of COVID-19 and no additional deaths as of Monday. There are 37 active cases with no one in the hospital. There have been 5,605 cases since the pandemic began in March 2020. There have been 5,469 recoveries and 99 deaths. The Illinois Department of
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ROLLA — Mark Twain National Forest is hosting a virtual meeting (Microsoft Teams) on Thursday Oct. 28, 2021 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM CST. Over the past two years, the public has provided valuable input to help the Forest refine its recreation management strategy to ensure the Forest delivers a sustainable spectrum of activities
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