A plan to move oversight of Missouri’s private school voucher program out of the State Treasurer’s Office fizzled on the last day of legislative session Friday after the chairman of the House Fiscal Review Committee refused to bring it up for a vote following a call from St. Louis Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski. The proposal to […]
WASHINGTON — Democrats and advocacy groups urged a quick rejection of President Donald Trump’s latest executive order on compiling citizenship lists and creating traceable mail-in ballots in a federal court hearing Thursday. Lawyers for the Democratic National Committee, Democratic minority leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, and interest groups argued […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon took heat Thursday over forthcoming changes to the federal student loan system that will impose new borrowing limits for professional and graduate students. Lawmakers took specific aim at stricter loan caps set to be established for students pursuing advanced programs that do not fall under the department’s “professional” classification, such […]
The Missouri Senate on Thursday voted to strip oversight of the state’s private school voucher program from State Treasurer Vivek Malek, moving it to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The change was included in a wide-ranging education bill that also expands eligibility for MOScholars, the state’s tax-credit-funded voucher program. The plan still needs […]
Missouri election officials can’t revise voter rolls to reflect the state’s gerrymandered congressional map because Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ office has not opened the statewide voter registration system to accept the changes, the president of Missouri’s county clerks association said Thursday. Miller County Clerk Clinton Jenkins, a Republican who serves as president of the […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House Thursday rejected a proposal to rein in President Donald Trump’s months-long military actions in Iran that have left more than a dozen U.S. military members dead, while killing thousands of civilians and displacing millions in the Middle East, according to third-party monitors. The measure, known as the War Powers Resolution, […]
The Missouri House gave final approval Thursday to a wide-ranging healthcare bill expanding women’s and maternal health coverage, increasing access to telehealth and requiring licensed childcare facilities to maintain allergy treatment policies. The House voted 116-21 to send the legislation to Gov. Mike Kehoe in one of its final actions before the end of the […]
Missouri’s largest marijuana company is facing a second antitrust lawsuit in two weeks, this time from a Kansas City consumer who alleges Good Day Farm and more than 40 affiliated LLCs used a web of dispensary licenses to limit competition and inflate prices. Damon Frost Jr., a general contractor in Kansas City, filed the class-action […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate approved a resolution Thursday that will prevent lawmakers in that chamber from receiving their paychecks during any government shutdowns that begin after this year’s midterm elections. The voice vote on the measure from Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy will not impact members in the House of Representatives since each chamber […]
The fiscal leaders of several states are demanding transparency and consumer fairness as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to refund billions in international tariffs following a recent Supreme Court loss. In a February decision, the high court dealt a blow to the president’s trade agenda, ruling by a 6-3 margin that the tariffs he issued […]
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