MO State News

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. – Marine veteran Lucas Kunce has set a new fundraising record in the state of Missouri with a whopping $1.1M+ haul in the first quarter of 2023. This is the most money ever raised by a Missouri challenger to a Senate incumbent in their first quarter of fundraising.   Compared to Hawley’s first […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows that young turkey hunters in Missouri harvested 2,550 birds over the past youth weekend, April 1 and 2.   Top harvest counties were Osage with 71 birds harvested, Miller with 65, and Texas with 64.   Perry County youth had 38

By Alisa Nelson, Missourinet JEFFERSON CITY – Giving veterans the honor they deserve and honoring the U.S. military members who did not come home. That’s what State Representative Dave Griffith, R-Jefferson City, said he wants to do.   Griffith is proposing to create the Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and Operation Allies Refuge Program.

Nearly 50 years ago, PBS television released a three-minute cartoon called “I’m Just a Bill.” The animated film told the tale of a forlorn rolled-up stack of paper named Bill, who desperately wanted to become a law.   A favorite of generations of children since, that Schoolhouse Rock! cartoon was my introduction to the legislative

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is now accepting entries for the 2023 Photo Contest. The deadline to submit photos is Sept. 1. Entries can include images from anywhere in Missouri, featuring beautiful natural resources, unique state parks and historic sites, natural phenomena, outdoor recreation, scenic landscapes, weather, wildlife and people enjoying the outdoors. Contestants

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Advisory Council on Historic Preservation will consider nominations to the National Register of Historic Places during its quarterly meeting beginning at 10 a.m. Friday, April 14. The meeting will be held in the LaCharrette and Nightingale Conference Rooms at the Lewis and Clark State Office Building, located at 1101 Riverside

Record breaking gas costs. Double digit increases in utility bills. These are the painful consequences of President Joe Biden’s pursuit of an energy strategy that rewards his wealthy environmentalist friends, allies and donors – consequences that disproportionately hurt working-class Americans and small businesses. Whether it’s killing the Keystone XL pipeline, stifling the creation of new

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri NRCS has received additional Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) funding through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) providing more opportunities for agricultural producers and forest landowners to participant in CSP. The CSP IRA funds will support implementation of climate-smart activities.   “With the addition of IRA funding, we look forward to providing greater

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is now accepting applications for Environmental Quality Incentives Program Conservation Incentive Contracts (EQIP-CIC). NRCS accepts applications for all its programs on a continuous basis, but applications must be filed for EQIP-CIC by April 21, 2023, to be eligible for the next round of funding. EQIP-CIC

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Department of Economic Development (DED) announced today the award of $250,000 through the Digital Demonstration Projects Grant Program. The program, funded through the Digital Equity Act (DEA), is focused on supporting digital opportunities throughout the state. Digital Demonstration Projects will help extend the benefits of the digital economy to all Missourians.