JEFFERSON CITY – State Representative Mary Elizabeth Coleman yesterday urged the Missouri House and Senate to pass a concurrent resolution to help ensure a U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade becomes effective immediately in Missouri. Rep. Coleman supports passing a concurrent resolution, which would go farther than the state’s trigger law. While Missouri has […]
JEFFERSON CITY — State Budget Director Dan Haug announced today that net general revenue collections for April 2022 increased 40.8 percent compared to those for April 2021, from $952.9 million last year to $1.34 billion this year. Net general revenue collections for 2022 fiscal year-to-date increased 9.4 percent compared to April 2021, from $8.80 billion
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JEFFERSON CITY – Colonel Eric T. Olson, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, announces the agency will offer another 15-week accelerated academy to law enforcement professionals interested in becoming a trooper. To be eligible, candidates must possess an active Missouri Class A POST license in good standing or be able to obtain one prior
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COLUMBIA, Mo. —The University of Missouri will soon celebrate the accomplishments of 5,828 students with more than 6,360 degrees at MU’s spring commencement ceremonies. University officials also will honor Amy B. Heimberger, a world-renowned neurosurgeon, and John Rogers, a highly accomplished biomedical engineer, with honorary degrees, the highest honor the university awards. “There are
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Governor Mike Parson has ordered the Missouri State Capitol dome lighted green beginning at sunset on Thursday, May 5, 2022, until sunrise on Friday, May 6, 2022, in recognition of Children’s Mental Health Week. “We must talk about mental health and the importance of having resources available for our men,
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JEFFERSON CITY – MO ABLE, administered by the Missouri Treasurer’s Office, allows individuals with disabilities and their families to save up to $16,000 per year, tax-free, without losing federal benefits like Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). The program has nearly 3,000 accounts and more than $22 million assets under management, making it one of
KANSAS CITY and COLUMBIA, MO. – On Monday night Politico obtained a draft copy of a majority opinion from the United States Supreme Court penned by Justice Samuel Alito which subsequently sent shockwaves through America due to the outright desire of the court, or a portion of, to repeal Roe v. Wade. In the
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ROLLA, Mo. —April showers bring more than May flowers to the Mark Twain National Forest—they also bring the end to the winter fire season. The dry weather of winter and early spring can provide the perfect conditions for forest managers to use prescribed fires as a tool for forest restoration. Since October of 2021, firefighters
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Following a POLITICO report on a leaked draft opinion from the United States Supreme Court that shows that a majority of the Court intends to overturn Roe v. Wade, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt released the following statement: “We’re encouraged by the draft opinion, and it is consistent with the briefs we’ve submitted to
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WASHINGTON – During a Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing yesterday, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) questioned Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley about the impact of inflation on President Biden’s proposed budget, which would turn the proposed funding increase for the Department of Defense into
