WASHINGTON – At the weekly Republican leadership press conference Tuesday, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor/HHS), pressed for details on how the Biden administration has spent funds from Democrats’ partisan $1.9 trillion spending bill passed last year. […]
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri State Highway Patrol is now testing for new troopers. The Patrol is encouraging qualified individuals of all backgrounds to apply and will offer testing at nine different locations in Missouri. Those who successfully complete testing will be eligible to continue in the selection process for the 117th Recruit Class, scheduled
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HARRISONVILLE – The Vicky Hartzler for U.S. Senate campaign launched the Farmers and Ranchers for Vicky Leadership Team yesterday on National Agriculture Day. The leadership team consists of agriculture leaders from every corner of Missouri who will lead the campaign’s agriculture coalition. If elected, Hartzler would be one of the only farmers serving in the
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JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri WIC is extending the temporary increase of the Cash Value Benefit for Fruit and Vegetable Purchases (CVB) through September 2022. The increase will continue to be $24 per month for child participants, $43 per month for pregnant and postpartum women participants and $47 per month for breastfeeding women participants. Standard CVB values
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BOSTON, Mass. – Average gasoline prices in Missouri have fallen 7.6 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.80/g yesterday, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 3,940 stations in Missouri. Prices in Missouri are 61.5 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand $1.13/g higher than a year ago. According to GasBuddy
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JEFFERSON CITY – Team members at Bennett Spring State Park invite the public on a leisurely hike along the Savanna Trail from 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 2. This hike will be taken at a slow pace and is great for all ages. The Savanna Trail makes use of roads originally established as early as the 1840s by
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JEFFERSON CITY – Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, conditions in the U.S. have shown marked signs of improvement. While the Omicron wave brought a massive spike in cases, case counts have declined rapidly since peaking in mid-January, and the latest variant saw milder effects. In light of these shifts, more states and localities have
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JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Invasive Plant Council (MoIP), in partnership with Forest ReLeaf of Missouri and the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), will host a Bradford pear “buy-back” program in locations around the state on April 26. Participants must register with EventBrite by visiting https://moinvasives.org/2022/03/10/callery-pear-buy-back-event-4-26-22/, choose their location, select a replacement tree species, and upload
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JEFFERSON CITY– Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has announced that his Office has obtained a consent judgment in his lawsuit against the City of Moscow Mills for violations of Senate Bill 5 and accompanying reforms. The lawsuit was filed in November, 2021, after information came to light about alleged ticket quotas and other violations of
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the Conservation Federation of Missouri (CFM) thank the thousands of Missouri deer hunters who donated 242,774 pounds of venison to the state’s Share the Harvest program this past deer season, including 5,053 whole deer. MDC and CFM also thank the participating meat processors throughout the
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