Milan, Missouri, in north-central Sullivan County, is a community shaped in part by immigration. About 46% of residents identify as Latino, and more than 28% were born outside the United States. Downtown Milan is seen here on Friday, February 27 (Mónica Cordero, Investigate Midwest). Eliseo Affholter noticed a car following him, moving slowly as he…
Gold bars are photographed at the Texas Bullion Depository, the nation’s first state-run depository for precious metals. More states are eying legislation on gold to hedge against inflation. (Photo courtesy of Texas Comptroller’s Office) More states are piling up gold bars, or encouraging residents to use gold-backed debit cards, to hedge against inflation. Several states,…
An election worker hands out “I Voted” stickers at the Main Library in Salt Lake City on Election Day Nov. 5, 2024 (Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch). Millions of women could face new challenges to voting under President Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act, which would require voters to prove their citizenship before casting a…
State Rep. Jamie Gragg speaks in the Missouri House this week (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). Missouri House Republicans voted Thursday to advance a bill prohibiting thousands of legally present immigrants from receiving federal food assistance, restricting what recipients can buy with those benefits and excluding most refugees and asylees from Medicaid. Much of the measure,…
State Rep. Darin Chappell and House Majority Leader Alex Riley confer in the Missouri House in March (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). Advocates for cancer patients, people with developmental disabilities and their caregivers urged Missouri lawmakers Wednesday to reject a proposal writing Medicaid work requirements into the state Constitution. The bill, sponsored by Republican state Rep….
Springfield Republican State Sen. Curtis Trent, as pictured speaking in the Missouri Senate on Feb. 12, 2024, presented a negotiated version of the House’s antisemitism bill Wednesday (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). The Missouri Senate unanimously passed legislation Wednesday that would require public schools and universities to create policies barring antisemitic harassment that disrupts students’ ability to…
Amid a fear of rising crime, some public officials are calling for even more resources into a fatally flawed system. Ben Jealous argues that would be a terrible mistake (Scott Olson/Getty Images). The State Police Board quashed St. Louis Mayor Spencer’s plans for a revamped civilian review board for police misconduct. The board, which now…
The entrance to a Big Lots store in Portland, Oregon. (Stock photo by hapabapa/Getty Images) At least 2.5 million low-income people quickly lost help affording groceries under a Republican-passed law that added new requirements for the nation’s largest nutrition program and shifted hundreds of millions of dollars in costs from the federal government to states,…
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…
A resident sits on a bench at Make the Road New York, a community center in Corona, Queens, in New York City. Lettering in Spanish reads, “We are here, we’re not leaving.” The area was one of the largest magnets for asylum-seekers from the border, mostly from Ecuador. (Photo by Tim Henderson/Stateline) The millions of…
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