JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The ACLU of Missouri announced in a Tuesday press release that it – along with Lambda Legal and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP — has filed a lawsuit to try to block a law that attempts to prevent transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming healthcare. The lawsuit aims to block Senate Bill
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Missouri voters in certain counties can now go out to the polls for the August elections.
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Former Missouri Governor Matt Blunt had his painted portrait unveiled in the Capitol building today.
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The Missouri Supreme Court is considering a lawsuit against the Missouri Attorney General that would allow an initiative petition on reproductive rights to move forward.
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The Show Mo Act, which provides tax incentives for entertainment projects in Missouri, passed this year and was signed into law after years of trying.
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The Missouri Supreme Court is considering a lawsuit against the Missouri Attorney General that would allow an initiative petition on reproductive rights to move forward.
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Missouri’s foster care system has long been plagued with problems.
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The Missouri Children’s Division has been taking steps to protect kids who go missing from foster care, but one federal agency doesn’t think enough has been done.
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Two proposed constitutional amendments have been submitted to Missouri’s Secretary of State’s Office for certification with opposite goals: one that would allow local governments to enact gun ordinances and one that restricts gun laws to only those passed by the Missouri General Assembly.
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DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines is adding a former Republican senator to its board of directors. Southwest said Monday that Roy Blunt, who represented Missouri in the Senate and before that the U.S. House of Representatives, joined the airline’s board on Sunday. That gives Southwest 15 directors. Blunt served in the Senate from 2011 until
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ASHLAND, Mo. (KMIZ) The second annual Ashland Pride Festival took place on Sunday, at a time when Missouri is enacting laws restricting access to gender-transition treatments. Caitlin Cunningham, owner of the Dandy Lion Cafe and organizer of Ashland’s Pride Festival, said they took every safety precaution when planning Sunday’s event, from health safety to physical safety.
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In May, close to twice as many kids were in foster care in Missouri as expected for a state of its size, the program’s director said.
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Missouri officials said Thursday that the state will not apply for the program.
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As maternal mortality appears to decrease nationwide, Missouri’s political leaders are working to decrease deaths in the state.
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Two Missouri Task Force One members left Columbia this week to help with the catastrophic flooding in Vermont.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Republican state Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder on Tuesday announced her bid for the 2024 lieutenant governor’s race. Thompson Rehder is the first person to throw their hat in the race. Rehder was elected to the Missouri Senate in 2020 and represents District 27, which includes Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Iron, Madison, Perry, Reynolds
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All of Missouri’s colleges and universities will get a 7% bump in funding under the state’s budget for the 2024 fiscal year, which began July 1, and money for a new meat processing plant at the University of Missouri.
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House Minority Leader Crystal Quade of Springfield released a statement about her 2024 campaign and teased a Monday launch.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) House Minority Leader Crystal Quade announced her run to be the next governor of Missouri early Sunday morning. If elected, the 37-year-old of Springfield would become the first female governor of the state. Quade is the first Democrat to enter the race and joins republicans Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe and Secretary
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By JIM SALTER Associated Press A judge on Tuesday prohibited several federal agencies and officials of the Biden administration from working with social media companies about “protected speech,” a decision called “a blow to censorship” by one of the Republican officials whose lawsuit prompted the ruling. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty of Louisiana granted the
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