A traveler looks at Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as they walk around the end of the line at Terminal E at George Bush Intercontinental Airport on March 24, 2026 in Houston, Texas. Travel disruptions continue as hundreds of TSA agents quit or work without pay during a partial government shutdown and ICE agents are…
A driver pumps gas at a Royal Farms in Columbia, Md., as rising fuel costs put pressure on household budgets nationwide. The national average price per gallon of regular gas is now $3.96, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. (Photos by Amanda Watford/Stateline) Gas prices are climbing again across the United States — with…
State Rep. Betsy Fogle of Springfield, ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, speaks on a capital improvements bill during special session in June 2025 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). The Missouri House rejected attempts by Democrats on Tuesday to restore $51.5 million in cuts to the state’s child care subsidy program. The program helps cover the…
House Speaker Jon Patterson of Lee’s Summit, left, speaks at a news conference alongside House Budget Committee Chairman Dirk Deaton of Seneca in May 2025 (TIm Bommel/Missouri House Communications). The Missouri House gave first-round approval Tuesday to a state operating budget that will close an almost $2 billion deficit by using almost all the state’s…
GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs, and Kauffman Stadium, home of the Kansas City Royals, are pictured on Feb. 8, 2025 (Anna Spoerre/The Missouri Independent). Across the country, governors and mayors are embracing a familiar pitch: high-profile development projects financed with bonds that supposedly come at “no cost to taxpayers.”…
Federal immigration officers were at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday, March 23, 2026, to help with airport security as the partial shutdown continues. The airport was telling travelers to prepare for at least four-hour wait times to get through security Monday (Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder). Airport security workers missed work Monday at the highest…
A proposal advancing in the Missouri House, which would tie funding largely to student enrollment, has already raised concerns about how funding would be redistributed across institutions (Catherine Lane/Getty Images). A simple idea is gaining traction in Jefferson City: fund colleges based on how many students they enroll, and let the money follow the student….
Danielle Dohm, left, Claire Little and Chloe Washington, students at the University of Missouri, sort donated potatoes at the Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri in Columbia last week (Steph Quinn/Missouri Independent). Missouri residents can receive state income tax credits on donations to food pantries, homeless shelters and soup kitchens. Two bills seeking to…
Election workers receive drop boxes for hand delivered mail-in ballots n North Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2024. Nevada is one of 14 states that counts mail ballots received after Election Day. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images) The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices on Monday appeared skeptical of the validity of mail-in ballots that arrive after…
Missouri Capitol Police officers conduct security checks Dec. 9 on the 691 boxes of petitions filed to force a referendum on the gerrymandered Congressional district map passed by lawmakers in September. Of the 27 times a referendum has been placed on the Missouri ballot, voters have rejected the General Assembly’s actions all but twice (Rudi…
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