Backers of the People Not Politicians redistricting referendum rallied Friday outside Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ office in Jefferson City. The 305,968 refers to the number of petition signatures that were turned in by the group to force a referendum on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional districts (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). Disagreements between local election officials and Missouri…
State Sen. Nick Schroer of Defiance sponsored a broad public safety bill that passed the General Assembly Friday, which includes provisions making gift card fraud a crime and authorizing school districts to install safety cameras to record violations of a law prohibiting drivers from passing school buses when discharging or onboarding children (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent)….
Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Lori Urso sponsored the first bill of its kind adding workplace accommodations for menopause- and perimenopause-related conditions to state law in 2025. A generational shift in recent years has led to more legislation in statehouses around the country. (Courtesy of the Rhode Island Senate) When Jacqueline Perez started experiencing symptoms of…
State Rep. Brandon Phelps, a Republican from Warrensburg, smiles as the Missouri House tosses bills into the air at the adjournment of session Friday (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). The Missouri General Assembly adjourned Friday without the factional warfare and late-session meltdowns that have come to define the Capitol in recent years, ending a 2026 session marked…
Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski of the Archdiocese of St. Louis called House Fiscal Review chairman Jim Murphy, a Republican from St. Louis County, Friday morning in a request to kill an education bill that would change oversight of MOScholars. In March, Rozanski spoke in a press conference in favor of Murphy’s legislation seeking to end the…
A voter deposits a mail-in ballot at the drop box outside the Chester County, Pennsylvania, Government Center on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Photo by Pennsylvania Capital-Star/Peter Hall) WASHINGTON — Democrats and advocacy groups urged a quick rejection of President Donald Trump’s latest executive order on compiling citizenship lists and creating traceable mail-in ballots in a…
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon testifies before the House Committee on Education and Workforce on May 14, 2026. The hearing examined the policies and priorities of the Department of Education. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon took heat Thursday over forthcoming changes to the federal student loan system that will impose…
State Sen. Rusty Black, a Republican from Chillicothe pictured at his desk in the Missouri Senate April 22, was part of a bipartisan push to move the state’s K-12 school voucher program out of the State Treasurer’s Office in a bill passed Thursday (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). The Missouri Senate on Thursday voted to strip oversight…
A polling location in Jefferson City (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). Missouri election officials can’t revise voter rolls to reflect the state’s gerrymandered congressional map because Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ office has not opened the statewide voter registration system to accept the changes, the president of Missouri’s county clerks association said Thursday. Miller County Clerk Clinton…
Emergency crews work at the site of a US-Israeli strike on a residential building that also destroyed the adjacent Rafi-Nia Synagogue on April 7, 2026, in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The U.S. House Thursday rejected a proposal to rein in President Donald Trump’s months-long military actions in Iran that have…
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