The Missouri House during the 2026 State of the State address (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). Legislative spring break is over, and Missouri lawmakers return to the Capitol on Monday with a packed agenda and a May 15 deadline to adjourn. The second half of the session begins with a tighter budget picture, unresolved fights over…
Sarah Beckman, left, stands with other staff members of Ohio’s Hamilton County Quick Response Team in an undated photo. The team helps people who use fentanyl get treatment. Ohio had the largest drop in opioid overdose deaths of any state as of October 2025 since the national peak in June 2023. (Photo courtesy of Hamilton…
A meeting held by progressive organizations warned against a proposed elimination of the state income tax March 19 at The Joshua’s House Church in Jefferson City. The meeting was one of eight held around the state as lawmakers were on legislative spring break (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). A coalition of progressive groups in Missouri is using…
Missouri is experiencing unprecedented electricity demand from data centers, manufacturers and electrification (Dana DiFilippo/New Jersey Monitor). Missouri lawmakers are weighing whether to restructure the state’s electricity markets. Before moving forward, they should take a hard look at how restructured markets have performed during extreme weather and how they have affected household utility bills. The record…
A child care provider and toddler look out the window at Rise for Baby and Family in Keene, N.H. A new analysis of federal data found the gender pay gap between women and men widened last year. (Photo by Maya Mitchell/New Hampshire Bulletin) The earnings gap between men and women slightly widened last year, according…
The U.S. Department of Education on Feb. 20, 2026. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department will take over the Department of Education’s responsibility for collecting on defaulted federal student loan debt, President Donald Trump’s administration announced Thursday. It’s the first step in a multi-phase process that will end with Treasury taking…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is arguing that 13 states requiring insurers to cover abortion are in violation of federal law. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom) The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday announced an investigation into 13 states that require health insurance plans to cover abortion care. In…
When Missouri voters legalized adult-use marijuana in 2022, they approved using revenue from sales tax and fees — after operating expenses – to be divided evenly between three funds: for the state public defenders office, the Missouri Veterans Commission and the drug treatment programs through the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (Rebecca Rivas/Missouri…
Ashley Wood, a second-year kindergarten teacher in Newburg, speaking to her students (photo submitted). In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat together sounding out words. Kim Williams, the school’s principal, watched as they worked through the lesson. One young boy caught her…
A farmer sprays pesticides, which are classification of substances utilized to protect crops (Michael Baniewicz for Investigate Midwest). Seventy-one percent of counties that spray the most glyphosate have late-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma incidence rates above the national average, according to a new data analysis from the advocacy group Food and Water Watch. Last month, Investigate Midwest,…
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