Students hold up anti-abortion signs at the Midwest March for Life on May 1, 2024, at the Missouri State Capitol (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent). Fifteen months after Missouri voters approved a constitutional right to abortion, Republican lawmakers are playing the long game, introducing a flood of familiar legislation seeking to roll back some protections in the…
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear waves to the audience after delivering his State of the Commonwealth address on Jan. 7, 2026, in Frankfort. (Photo by Arden Barnes/Kentucky Lantern) WASHINGTON — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s faith calls him to address hunger, health access and community care, he said during an event Thursday at the progressive Center for…
The proposal, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Darin Chappell of Rogersville, would make it harder for Missouri to reverse Medicaid work requirements if voters approve the constitutional amendment and if federal law changes. Chappell said his proposal is not intended to defund Medicaid expansion (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). Missouri Republicans voted Thursday to advance a…
State Rep. Dave Hinman, a Republican from O’Fallon, speaks during Missouri House debate during the 2025 legislative session (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). The Missouri House approved a bill Thursday that would ban all intoxicating hemp products — things like THC seltzers or hemp-derived THC edibles currently sold at gas stations and smoke shops — beginning…
Sen. Curtis Trent, a Republican from Springfield, introduces a bill in the Senate on Feb. 12, 2024 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). A group of bills standardizing mandatory minimum prison terms and repealing conditional release provisions was debated by a Missouri Senate committee on Wednesday. The Senate Judiciary Committee discussed three bills, sponsored by Republican Sens. Curtis…
Republican state Reps. Sherri Gallick, David Dolan, Bill Lucas, Cecelie Williams, Jeff Farnan, Wendy Hausman and Melissa Schmidt present their bills targeting deepfakes to the House Emerging Issues Committee this week. Theirs are among a slate of proposals this session that would regulate the technology. (Steph Quinn/Missouri Independent). Missouri lawmakers are weighing a slate of…
Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick, a Republican from Shell Knob (photo submitted). Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick released a scathing report Wednesday on the state’s marijuana program, concluding that missteps in the 2019 licensing process triggered costly litigation and raised persistent questions about whether licenses were awarded fairly. The nearly three-year audit of the Missouri…
Marathon Petroleum Company’s Salt Lake City Refinery in Salt Lake City on Jan. 3, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) A coalition of public health and environmental groups filed a suit Wednesday challenging the Trump administration’s recent finding that the Environmental Protection Agency could not regulate climate-warming greenhouse gases. EPA Administrator Lee…
State Rep. Bill Hardwick, a Republican from Dixon, speaks March 25, 2025, in the Missouri House (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications) Legislation creating a state-run video lottery system to replace and regulate “gray market” slot machines that have proliferated for years in gas stations, bars and fraternal halls across the state narrowly cleared the Missouri House…
(Getty Images). Republicans are pushing to restore a law that would grant the secretary of state more power over the language voters see when they head to the polls. A law with a similar provision was struck down by the Missouri Supreme Court earlier this year because it strayed too far from the bill’s original…
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