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Black History Month shines light on institutionalized racism in our educational system
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building pictured on Nov. 25, 2024 (Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom). Using snapshots of the history of Blacks as a corrective and curative measure for one month is tantamount to applying a band-aid to treat a virulent and stubborn disease. Except for providing a minimal degree of comfort for Black…
Missouri governor’s parole study group urged to focus on transparency, fairness
The Algoa Correctional Center in Jefferson City (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). Missouri’s 19 prisons hold about 24,000 people. At some point, most will be released. The question for crime victims, people behind bars and the families of both is when. How that question gets answered is at the heart of a working group created by Gov….
Dozens of cities, states hiking minimum wages in 2026 amid federal inaction
A server waits on customers at a café. The minimum hourly wage for workers will increase in dozens of cities, counties and states in January. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) The minimum wage for workers will increase in 19 states and 49 cities and counties next month, with the wage floor reaching $15 per hour…
Federal rules force $1B in customer rebates for Missouri’s biggest health insurer
Centene Corp. headquarters in Clayton (photo from Google Maps). Missouri’s biggest individual insurer must rebate more money to policyholders in the state than all insurers nationwide have in either of the past two years because it spent too little on care and too much on administration. Ambetter from Home State Health, a subsidiary of Clayton-based…
Oligarchical abuse in the Missouri Capitol
The Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City (Jason Hancock/Missouri Independent). For nearly three decades I have been a volunteer constitutional conservative, small government, free market watchdog at the Missouri Capitol, and in all that time I have never seen the level of abuse of power I witnessed during the two special sessions the governor called this…
‘Substantial’ layoffs of federal workers launched by Trump administration amid shutdown
Protesters rally outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on Feb. 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Friday it had begun mass layoffs of federal employees, a step not taken during previous…