JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri Budget Director Dan Haug announced Wednesday that net general revenue collections for January 2023 increased 55.1 percent compared to those for January 2022, from $882.1 million last year to $1.37 billion this year. Net general revenue collections for 2023 fiscal year-to-date increased 15.6 percent compared to January 2022, from $6.58 […]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – According to a recent independent economic study, the soybean industry continues to remain as a top economic engine for the Show-Me State. The results of the 2022 study found that the Missouri soybean industry provides more than $8 billion in economic output to the state. “The study allows us to
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As Missourians drive to neighboring states to place a sports wager, they are asking why legislation authorizing sports betting has not already passed in their state. Our own Kansas City Chiefs competing in the Super Bowl has heightened interest in sports betting, yet Missourians will have to leave the state to place a friendly wager
JEFFERSON CITY – The Honorable Paul C. Wilson, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, delivered this State of the Judiciary address Wednesday morning, February 8, 2023, during a joint session of the Missouri General Assembly in Jefferson City, Missouri. Introduction Speaker Plocher, Lieutenant Governor Kehoe, President Pro Tem Rowden, members of the
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A couple of weeks ago, I sat in my “mobile office” looking out the window after completing my morning farm chores. I paused to take in the beauty of the fresh snow that blanketed the ground. The pure white snow touched everything in sight. The ice crystals sat light as a feather on every strand
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JEFFERSON CITY – The Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles will meet each other next weekend during Super Bowl LVII in Arizona, and a friendly wager placed between the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry is raising the stakes beyond just bragging rights. If the
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Transportation invites Missouri students in grades K-8 to help fight litter in Missouri – and to have creative and educational fun – by participating in the 2023 “Yes You CAN Make Missouri Litter-Free” trash-can-decorating contest. The contest is part of MoDOT’s annual “No MOre Trash!” statewide litter campaign,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — Although relocating can be stressful, a new study at the University of Missouri found, on average, Black South Africans who migrated far away from home to find work reported better emotional well-being and were at lower risk for depression after the move. As mental health and internal migration continue to be understudied components of
Last week, I had the honor of speaking to Missourians gathered at the State Capitol for the 8th Annual Human Trafficking Awareness Day. As a member of Missouri’s Statewide Council on Sex Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Children and also the Missouri Rights of Victims of Sexual Assault Task Force, which studied human trafficking as
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ATCHISON COUNTY, Mo. – With wind energy growing increasingly common and more wind turbines dotting the landscape – especially in northwest Missouri – the threat to eagles and other birds is an increasing concern to conservation organizations and others. Birds have been hurt and killed after encountering the massive blades and air currents of wind turbines.
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