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Missouri can’t build higher education performance funding on editable grades
(Stock photo via Getty Images) Missouri is moving toward higher-stakes “performance funding” for higher education, where appropriations rise or fall with completion rates, job outcomes, and other measurable outputs—while also pressing an aggressive workforce agenda built on “job-ready” credentials. That combination creates a threshold integrity problem Missouri has not yet confronted: if the state is…
Missouri company behind gas station slot machines suspending operations amid criminal probe
Two “no-chance” gambling machines await customers in 2021 at a Columbia convenience store (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). After years of legal battles to protect its business from criminal prosecution, Torch Electronics will suspend operations of its slot machines in Missouri under pressure from state Attorney General Catherine Hanaway and the U.S. Department of Justice. In a…
Missouri public education amendment campaign stops signature push, plans 2028 return
A rally in the Missouri Capitol Rotunda calls for better funding for Missouri’s public schools Feb. 10 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). An initiative petition campaign seeking to enshrine a “fundamental right” to public education in the Missouri Constitution is abandoning its efforts to get on the November ballot, promising a return in 2028. The Missouri Right…
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…
Undocumented mothers in Missouri navigate pregnancy, postpartum as ICE threats loom
Missouri nonprofits and community health workers who serve undocumented women who are pregnant or postpartum say many clients are skipping doctor’s appointments out of fear of deportation (Getty Images). Oscarina spent the first week of her son’s life moving between his bassinet in the neonatal intensive care unit and her small apartment to care for…