MO State News

JEFFERSON CITY – Legislation that will establish new boundaries for Missouri’s eight congressional districts is one step closer to consideration on the House floor. The House Special Committee on Redistricting gave its stamp of approval to HB 2117 Wednesday morning during a public hearing in the State Capitol.   Committee Chair Dan Shaul and Vice-Chair […]

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri State Representative Michael Davis (R-Kansas City) has filed House Bill 2429, which expands Missouri’s Right to Try statute to include Schedule 1 investigational drugs, with a focus on psychedelic drugs including psilocybin, MDMA, LSD, and ibogaine.   Representative Davis said, “There is emerging interest and significant clinical research supporting the safety

JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri plays a key role in supply chain with its national central location, major interstates and the two largest rivers in the country.   The global pandemic recovery, increased consumer demand and work shortages are contributing to historic supply chain shortages here, across the nation and around the world.   Gov. Mike

JEFFERSON CITY — Colonel Eric T. Olson, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, announces that 25 troopers graduated from the Patrol’s LawEnforcementAcademy on Wednesday, January 12, 2022. The ceremony took place in the Academy gymnasium, 1510 East Elm Street, Jefferson City, Mo.   The graduation ceremony was also live streamed on the Patrol’s Facebook

JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced today that as of December 31, 2021, the SAFE Kit Initiative, which aims to clear the backlog of untested sexual assault kits, has aided 115 police departments and sheriff’s offices in clearing their backlogs of reported, untested sexual assault kits. Further, the Office has sent 2,745

ROLLA, Mo. — Youth, aged 15-18, can now apply for Mark Twain National Forest summer jobs in the Salem Ranger District (Salem, Mo.) and the Poplar Bluff Ranger District (Poplar Bluff, Mo.) through the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program.   Applicants are not required to live in the local area but must be capable of

JEFFERSON CITY — Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, looking back on last year, published a list of major accomplishments his office completed in 2021.   For the fifth consecutive year, Ashcroft reached his goal of visiting all 114 counties in Missouri. The secretary met with county clerks and other local election officials, visited schools, toured libraries,

JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has released his “AGO in Review,” a recap of the work that the Attorney General’s Office completed throughout 2021. “In 2021, the Attorney General’s Office worked tirelessly to push back on extraordinary government overreach, fight violent crime, work to clear the backlog of untested sexual assault kits, and

JEFFERSON CITY – The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index increased slightly in December to 98.9, up 0.5 points from November. Twenty-two percent of small business owners reported that inflation was their single most important problem encountered in operating their business. Price raising activities have reached levels not seen since the early 1980s when prices were rising at double-digit rates.  “Small businesses, unfortunately, saw

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Natural Resources Division of State Parks, is pleased to announce the 2022 round for the Bus Grant Program is now open. These non-competitive grants are awarded on a first come, first served basis to qualified applicants. The deadline to apply is May 1, 2022. Bus grants are available to