A metal gangway leads to the floating pumphouse used to harvest water for Public Wholesale Water Supply District 20 outside Sedan, Kan. A new analysis found agricultural states including Kansas have seen drinking water systems record thousands of instances of elevated nitrate, a potentially dangerous byproduct of farming. (Photo by Kevin Hardy/Stateline) Nearly one-fifth of…
A couple from Venezuela, shown this month in Las Cruces, N.M., is preparing to self-deport after the Trump administration cancelled their asylum case without hearing testimony in July. New rules, likely to be challenged in court, will make it difficult or impossible for asylum-seekers to get legal work permission while their cases proceed in court….
Senate Appropriations Chair Rusty Black, a Republican from Chillicothe, begins the Senate’s budget debate Wednesday (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). Overly optimistic predictions for revenue from the lottery and casino taxes will cost Missouri school districts $245 per pupil before the fiscal year ends in June. And state lawmakers are now building next year’s budget around other…
(Dana DiFilippo/New Jersey Monitor) Late last month, both chambers of the Missouri legislature began hearings on proposals to introduce electrical choice and competition, challenging the state’s long-standing model of electricity generation and delivery. At the core of the debate is a basic economic principle: competition tends to put downward pressure on costs. Currently, because we…
Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, R-Arnold, introduces a bill in February 2024 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). A bill aimed at clarifying Missouri’s sex offender registry law — including when people convicted in other states must register here and when some offenders can ask to come off the list — cleared the House Tuesday. The House voted 141-4…
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., speaks with the press about ethics investigations at the U.S. Capitol on April 21, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republican leaders Tuesday defended the secretive process used in that chamber to investigate allegations of wrongdoing, though they did confirm referring a complaint made…
The Missouri Capitol Building in Jefferson City (Getty Images). A bill that will protect Missouri’s small businesses from frivolous lawsuits now awaits the governor’s signature after gaining final approval from the legislature on Tuesday. The Act Against Abusive Website and Web Content Litigation addresses an issue that legislators say has harmed small businesses in Missouri…
Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, speaks at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., in December. Oz said Tuesday that the Trump administration will require every state within 30 days to turn in a plan to revalidate the health care providers that participate in…
Doug Burris, St. Louis’ interim Commissioner of Corrections, on Monday, March 10, 2025, at St. Louis Public Radio in the city’s Grand Center neighborhood (Brian Munoz/St. Louis Public Radio). Missouri’s moniker as the Show-Me State is said to originate from a Congressman who said that his midwestern roots preferred evidence over eloquence. “I am from…
The headquarters of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama on February 8, 2023. The interim CEO of the civil rights organization said Tuesday that the SPLC faces a federal criminal probe over what the SPLC believes is its prior use of paid informants to gather intelligence on extremist groups. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector) The…
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