The Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City (Jason Hancock/Missouri Independent). For nearly three decades I have been a volunteer constitutional conservative, small government, free market watchdog at the Missouri Capitol, and in all that time I have never seen the level of abuse of power I witnessed during the two special sessions the governor called this…
The Missouri Attorney General’s Office is seeking records from the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. An appellate court decision Tuesday is making a path for those records (Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent). The Missouri Attorney General’s Office is allowed to access patient health information as part of its investigation into the Washington University…
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson answers reporters’ questions during a press conference in the Rayburn Room inside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. Also pictured, from left to right, are California rancher and former president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Kevin Kester; Wisconsin Republican Rep. Tony Wied; Republican Whip…
WASHINGTON — An appeals court late Monday rejected the Trump administration’s request to move ahead with firing Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook, as the president tries to pressure the independent board to lower interest rates. The 2-1 decision will allow Cook to partake in Tuesday’s Federal Reserve meeting, where the board will vote on…
WASHINGTON — The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office released a report Monday concluding the Federal Emergency Management Agency violated the law “when it withheld or delayed the obligation of” funding Congress approved for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program and the Shelter and Services Program. The finding is the sixth time this year the GAO has…
State Rep. Jeremy Dean, D-Springfield, speaks in February on the Missouri House floor. (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications) A Democratic legislator from Springfield faces a Missouri House ethics investigation because of an obscene text message sent to a Republican colleague during debate over the new congressional district map. State Rep. Jeremy Dean of Springfield sent the…
A student walks along the campus of Howard University, an HBCU, on Oct. 25, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Howard is an HBCU. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday it will redirect $495 million in additional funding to historically Black colleges and universities as well as tribal colleges. The…
The Cole County Courthouse in Jefferson City (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent) Gov. Mike Kehoe called a special session to redraw Missouri’s congressional map without a compelling reason, attorneys for the Missouri NAACP said Monday. Therefore, they contend, the map passed by lawmakers should be declared void. In the first of what promises to be extensive legal…
Monsy Hernández, at right, at a 2021 family reunion in Mexico to celebrate the birthday of Hernández’s grandfather, José Rodríguez, center, with cane. Hernández, who came to the United States from Mexico as a child, left South Carolina for Germany in 2017 and now helps other immigrants who are considering leaving the U.S. (Photo courtesy…
A patient receives treatment in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber at a clinic in North Carolina in 2010. Two fatalities this year in such chambers have brought attention to hyperbaric oxygen therapy, including efforts to beef up state regulation. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images). Just before 8 a.m. on Jan. 31, an explosion rocked a nondescript one-story office…
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