State Rep. Elizabeth Fuchs, a St. Louis Democrat, speaks during Missouri House debate in May 2025 (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). When state Rep. Elizabeth Fuchs first arrived in Jefferson City as a lobbyist in 2015, a woman who had been around the Capitol longer pulled her aside and offered advice that sounded, at first, absurd…
An Iranian flag is planted in the rubble of a police station, damaged in airstrikes, on March 3, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he “might have forced Israel’s hand” in launching the war on Iran that has already cost the lives of six American…
A gas pump is seen in a vehicle on Nov. 26, 2025, in Austin, Texas. Gas prices rose Tuesday after the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) The national average price of a gallon of regular gasoline topped $3 Tuesday for the first time this year, and is expected to keep going…
Missouri lawmakers have filed bills seeking to restrict transgender people from using restrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity (Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom). With blonde hair flowing over her shoulders and spilling onto a blousy blue mini dress, Landon Patterson sat in front of the Missouri House Emerging Issues Committee Monday. The committee…
State Rep. John Voss, center, presides over a hearing Monday on state information technology costs and organization. Voss, R-Cape Girardeau, chairs the House Subcommittee on Appropriations – General Administration (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). A Missouri state accounting system that was supposed to integrate all state financial operations on one platform is late and over budget —…
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth listens to questions during a news conference at the Pentagon on March 2, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday he expects war with Iran will continue however long it takes to achieve his objectives, which include eliminating the country’s…
Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly speaks with reporters in the Mansfield Room of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — A federal circuit court announced Monday it will hold oral arguments in May to determine whether a lower court erred when it blocked…
A woman looks at health insurance options on Nevada’s health exchange. This year Nevada became the third state to add a public option plan to its marketplace. (Photo by Shalina Chatlani/ Stateline) Nearly two decades ago, progressives fought to include a so-called public option — a government-run health plan — in the broad health care…
The changes address some of the challenges regulators have encountered with facilities, such as the cases of the Delta Extraction manufacturing and Red Tractor cultivation facilities (Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent). Missouri cannabis regulators want more power to penalize bad actors in the marijuana industry, according to drafts of proposed rules released last week. The sweeping revisions…
A couple sits with their newborn inside their Bentonville, Arkansas, home earlier this month. Nearly a quarter of pregnant women aren’t getting prenatal care in the early stages of pregnancy, according to a new analysis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Photo by Antoinette Grajeda/Arkansas Advocate) Nearly a quarter of pregnant women…
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