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For many Missouri families, any tax cut will be swallowed by rising health care costs
(Getty Images). In 2012, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback cut income taxes with promises of economic growth. Instead, the state faced years of budget shortfalls, education cuts, and credit downgrades. Just five years later, the Republican-controlled legislature voted to override Brownback’s veto and restore the income tax. Missouri is now debating a similar tax path at…
Missouri abortion regulations go on trial Monday. Widespread access is at stake
An abortion procedure room pictured on March 3, 2025, at Planned Parenthood in Columbia (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent). A trial litigating the parameters of Missouri’s new reproductive rights amendment begins Monday in Kansas City. The outcome will reach far beyond the state’s borders. The trial, which will include testimony from abortion providers, Planned Parenthood leadership and…
Signalgate report says Hegseth created a risk to national security with cellphone messages
U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., points to text messages by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during an annual worldwide threats assessment hearing at the Longworth House Office Building on March 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. The hearing held by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence addressed top aides inadvertently including Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief for…
Accreditation of colleges, once low key, has gotten political
Soon-to-be graduates pose for a photo at the University of North Carolina on May 1, 2024, in Chapel Hill, N.C. The University of North Carolina is one of six Southern public university systems that formed a new accreditation agency this summer, a move that shook the national evaluation model that higher education has relied on…
Missouri Senate weighs ending statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse
State Sen. Brad Hudson, a Cape Fair Republican, presents a bill during the 2025 legislative session (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). Victims of childhood sexual abuse fought for legislation to eliminate the statute of limitations in a Missouri Senate hearing Wednesday. One bill would remove any time limit on when civil claims could be brought for crimes…
Gas prices soar by 21% as government inflation figures reflect Trump’s war on Iran
An Indianapolis gas pump shows prices over $4 a gallon on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (Photo by Niki Kelly/Indiana Capital Chronicle) WASHINGTON — Spikes in energy prices caused by the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran drove up inflation for Americans in March, according to the latest consumer price index figures released Friday. Costs jumped 0.9% in March…