A KFF poll released on Jan. 29, 2026 found health costs on the minds of voters in advance of the midterms. (Photo by Yin Yang/Getty Images) Americans feel their health care costs are going up faster than other household expenses, hold President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans responsible and say the issue will factor into…
State lawmakers requested details about an earmark in Missouri’s budget for a nonprofit established by former Gov. Mike Parson, pictured here leaving Gov. Mike Kehoe’s inauguration in January 2025 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). A $250,000 earmark in Missouri’s budget for a nonprofit founded by former Gov. Mike Parson — including money drawn from a federal program…
Missouri House Speaker Jon Patterson, R-Lee’s Summit, presents his proposal for a statewide vote on eliminating the income tax Wednesday to the House Commerce Committee (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). During Wednesday’s hearing on Gov. Mike Kehoe’s plan to replace Missouri’s individual income tax with an expanded sales tax, the key word was trust. The proposed constitutional…
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem paints a section of the border barrier in New Mexico in August to prevent rust and make it hotter to prevent climbing. Declines in immigration contributed to a low population gain in the United States last year. (Photo by Danielle Prokop/Source NM) A drop in immigration amid…
Missouri Department of Social Services Director Jess Bax presents to state lawmakers on the House Budget Committee on Tuesday (Steph Quinn/Missouri Independent). Missouri lawmakers were urged Tuesday to make major investments in the state’s social services department in order to comply with new federal requirements and avoid steep penalties. Jess Bax, director of the Missouri…
Denise Baker, a reproductive health assistant at Planned Parenthood Great Plains prepares patient paperwork behind the clinic’s front desk on June 21, 2024, in Overland Park, Kansas(Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent). Planned Parenthood and the Missouri Attorney General’s Office agree on one thing: abortion is legal in Missouri. That’s where the agreement ends. A 10-day trial that…
A laptop computer with Microsoft Copilot+ installed. As more insurers, hospitals and clinicians use artificial intelligence in health care, state legislators on both sides of the aisle are looking to regulate its use (Joe Raedle/Getty Images). Imagine your physician offering you a new therapy for a serious medical condition—but with several warnings. You are told…
State Sen. Stephen Webber, D-Columbia, looks to the Senate dais in a disagreement over Senate rules on Sept. 10, 2025 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). Gov. Mike Kehoe withdrew two nominees to the Missouri Ethics Commission Tuesday after Democrats pointed out the appointments were based on a congressional map that Republicans contend is no longer valid. Senate…
Union Station and downtown Kansas City (Getty Images). Missouri will be one of just a handful of states hosting FIFA World Cup matches in the summer of 2026, with Kansas City serving as the region’s primary stage. It’s a rare opportunity to welcome the world. But if history is any guide, hosting mega-events brings real…
The Algoa Correctional Center in Jefferson City (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). With temperatures hovering near zero and windchills approaching minus 20 degrees, Spain Bady was ordered to leave his cell at Algoa Correctional Center on Saturday morning and clear snow from prison walkways. He refused, telling the corrections officer directing him to go outside that he…
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