U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, speaking at a Future Farmers of America event Aug. 18, 2025 at the Tennessee State Fair. (Photo by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout) The U.S. Department of Agriculture will transfer a large office building to the General Services Administration in a step toward shrinking the department’s footprint in and around Washington, D.C.,…
People shop for groceries at a Walmart store in Ohio. State officials across the country are looking to crack down on fraud and mistakes in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. (Photo by Marty Schladen/Ohio Capital Journal) State officials across the country are looking to crack down on fraud and…
Sen. Mike Moon, R-Ash Grove, speaks on the Senate floor on Feb. 27, 2023 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). The Missouri Senate is one of only two legislative chambers in the country that does not provide a video livestream of its proceedings. A Senate committee debated a resolution Wednesday that would change that, though its prospects remain…
John Diehl during his time in the Missouri House of Representatives (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence former Missouri House Speaker John Diehl to two years in prison in his federal COVID relief fraud case, arguing his admitted misuse of nearly $380,000 in pandemic aid “should merit a significant…
State Rep. Ed Lewis, a Republican from Moberly, presents his proposal to require majorities in every congressional district to vote in favor of proposals put on the ballot by initiative petition in order for them to pass in September 2024 (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). While a judge is rewriting the ballot summary for a proposal…
U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Kansas City, filing for re-election Tuesday in the 5th Congressional District. The district is at the center of a fight over a gerrymandered map intended to flip the district to Republicans (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver was the first candidate to file for office Tuesday in Missouri, showing the…
A for-rent sign beckons tenants in Albuquerque, N.M. A proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development would affect mixed-status immigrant households that use Section 8 rental assistance. (Photo by Marisa Demarco/Source NM) As the Trump administration continues to focus on the legal immigration statuses of many across the country, a revived…
State Sen. Adam Schnelting, a Republican from St. Charles, speaks in March at a Missouri Right to Life rally in the Missouri State Capitol Building in March 2025 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). When state Sen. Adam Schnelting and his wife ran the numbers on how much money their investments could generate for their grandchildren and great-grandchildren,…
Data centers operate in Oregon in 2024. Some states are scaling back their data center incentives as the facilities contribute to increasing electric bills and raise environmental concerns. (Photo by Rian Dundon/Oregon Capital Chronicle) After years of states pushing legislation to accelerate the development of data centers and the electric grid to support them, some…
The U.S. Capitol with snow and ice on the steps on Jan. 29, 2026. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats will spend billions of dollars and countless hours campaigning throughout the country ahead of November’s midterm elections, even though control of Congress likely will be decided by a relatively small number…
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