Former state Rep. Wiley Price discusses the effort to censure him during House debate on Jan. 13, 2021 (Ben Peters/Missouri House Communications). A Cole County judge has ordered Missouri officials to repay former state Rep. Wiley Price more than $22,000, ruling the House lacked lawful authority to enforce a financial penalty imposed as part of…
State Treasurer Vivek Malek speaks about the MOScholars program during a rally in the Missouri State Capitol Feb. 26, 2025 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). The Missouri State Treasurer’s Office inadvertently posted a directory of students enrolled in the state’s private school voucher program on its website for almost a year, even as it repeatedly denied lawmakers’…
(Joe Raedle/Getty Images). You live in rural Missouri. A home pregnancy test turns positive — it’s your first pregnancy. The nearest maternity care is over an hour away. Then you see a building nearby labeled “Pregnancy Center.” It looks like a clinic, so you walk in. They perform an ultrasound and reassure you that everything…
State Rep. Becky Laubinger, a Republican from Park Hills speaks on the Missouri House floor Feb. 3, 2026 (Tim Bommel/House Communications). The Missouri House passed a bill Monday that would force entities receiving state funding to restrict usage of restrooms, changing areas and sleeping accommodations based on biological sex and codify definitions for “female,” “male”…
Kaitlyn Joshua, co-founder of Abortion in America and a resident of Baton Rouge, La., said she feared many patients would go without care after Planned Parenthood closed its only Louisiana health centers in response to a new federal rule included in the broad tax and spending measure President Donald Trump signed last summer (Greg LaRose/Louisiana…
Senate Majority Leader Tony Luetkemeyer, a Republican from Parkville, speaks to reporters at the halfway point of the 2026 legislative session March 12, 2026 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). A bipartisan push to end a Missouri law allowing judges to impose the death penalty when jurors can’t agree has moved further through the legislature this year than…
Looking through the open hatch of Apollo 13 command module Odyssey, shows the cramped quarters inside. It’s on display at the Cosmosphere space museum in Hutchinson. (Photo by Max McCoy / Kansas Reflector) HUTCHINSON — Stare into the open hatch of Odyssey, the scarred Apollo 13 command module in which three American astronauts made their…
U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver introduces Joe Biden at a campaign rally at the National World War I Museum and Memorial on March 7, 2020 in Kansas City (Kyle Rivas/Getty Images). WASHINGTON — Emanuel Cleaver isn’t a stranger to a standard reelection run. Someone with his level of time spent in office might even call it…
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announces the state’s lawsuit against American Shaman in a press conference outside her office March 31, 2026 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway has ordered 33 stores to stop selling intoxicating hemp products, but many shop owners say the products remain legal under federal law and plan to…
Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (Getty Images). Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a bill earlier this month passed unanimously by the legislature. It was intended to make the divorce process better for pregnant women. It might in some ways. But it will make things worse in others. Multiple lawmakers acknowledged to me or others…
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