Nurses care for patients within the Progressive Care Unit at University Hospital in Columbia (Justin Kelley/MU Health Care). Missouri lawmakers are right to treat the collapse of rural health care as an urgent crisis. Nearly half of the state’s remaining rural hospitals are at risk of closure, and many communities already know what it means…
The potential first-year cost of a proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate Missouri’s income tax exploded in a new version being debated in the state Senate (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector). The first-year cost of a House-passed proposal to eliminate the Missouri income tax ballooned to $4.2 billion under revisions made in the state Senate that were called…
Republican state Sen. Jason Bean of Holcomb, pictured at his desk on the first day of the 2024 legislative session, passed a proposal he has been sponsoring since 2024 through the State Senate Monday. The bill would create an appeals board for high school athletics (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). The Missouri Senate peeled back its plans…
Emergency contraceptives like Plan B are designed to prevent pregnancy by stopping or delaying ovulation (Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images). Missouri hospitals and clinics that perform forensic exams following sexual assault are not required by law to offer emergency contraception to survivors, a coverage inconsistency a bipartisan group of lawmakers is trying to correct with…
University of Missouri President Mun Y. Choi gave his State of the University Address in March 2022 (photo courtesy of the University of Missouri). UM System President Mun Choi said he was responsible for the university’s funding cuts to several multicultural student organizations, citing concerns over Department of Justice investigations into other universities in a…
(CGinspiration/iStock Images) A political party is defined by the governing philosophy, values, policies and actions of its leaders and members. How would you define the Missouri Republican Party? The national Republican Party? One could argue that the behavior we are witnessing on the national stage is an extreme manifestation — not who the Republican Party really is. Or one could conclude that how President Trump operates,…
(Photo illustration by Catherine Lane/Getty Images) I am a finance professor at Lincoln University, currently in litigation over a specific allegation: that failing grades I entered for plagiarism were later altered through the learning management system without my consent. I have an obvious stake in how that dispute resolves — but it pointed me toward…
People shop for groceries at a Walmart store in Ohio. New research suggests SNAP work requirements won’t enhance employment and will push more people off of food assistance. (Photo by Marty Schladen/Ohio Capital Journal) As states enact stricter work requirements for the federal food stamp program, a new analysis suggests those requirements won’t enhance employment…
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…
Customers play Torch slot machines Friday at a Columbia convenience store despite a promise from the company that all its games would be shut off (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). Torch Electronics shut down its slot machine-like games across Missouri this week under pressure from a federal investigation, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said Thursday, marking a sharp…
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