MO State News

Ashcroft files amicus brief defending Texas election bill

JEFFERSON CITY — Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, a licensed attorney in Missouri, recently filed an amicus brief with the federal court in Texas, defending the Texas Election Integrity Protection Act that was passed by the Texas legislature in August of this year and signed into law in September.   The Texas bill (Senate Bill 1) […]

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Blunt asks what Biden administration is doing about shortage of COVID-19 tests

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, and Richard Burr (N.C.), Ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, sent a letter urging U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to

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MDC recalls notable news events of 2021

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) had an assortment exciting news over 2021, including the state’s first black-bear-hunting season, the state’s first elk harvested with archery equipment, numerous fishing records broken, new “four-legged” and “two-legged” conservation agents, a new commissioner, and more.   See 2021 MDC news highlights below and follow the

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MSHP reports zero traffic fatalities over New Year’s

JEFFERSON CITY — Colonel Eric T. Olson, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, provides the following preliminary statistics related to the New Year’s holiday weekend: No one was killed in a traffic crash during the 78-hour counting period, which began at 6 p.m. Thursday, December 30, 2021, and ended at 11:59 p.m. Sunday, January

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U-Haul: Missouri is ranked 39th in growth, Illinois is 49th

PHOENIX, Ariz. — Missouri is the No. 39 growth state in America and Illinois is 49th out of the 50 states, according to 2021 transactional data compiled for the annual U-Haul® Growth Index.   People coming to Missouri in one-way U-Haul trucks increased almost nine percent year-over-year, while departures rose more than 13 percent from

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