President Joe Biden this week announced plans to send volunteer teams door to door in some areas to get more Americans vaccinated against the coronavirus.
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Federal surge teams are in Missouri to help with the rising cases, low vaccination rates, and the spread of the Delta variant.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri restaurants will be able to sell to-go cocktails permanently under a new law. Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday signed the legislation into law. Missouri had eased restrictions on to-go mixed drinks during the coronavirus pandemic as a way to help struggling restaurants maintain business. The new law makes
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Gov. Mike Parson will ceremoniously sign Senate Bill 51 at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the State Capitol.
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JEFFERSON CITY, MO. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Parson announced that Missouri has requested the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to participate in joint Preliminary Damage Assessments (PDAs) in 17 counties in response to severe storms and flooding. Teams will survey the damage that began on June 19 with severe weather and continued through July 1 in
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) On Thursday, the day Medicaid expansion would have taken effect, Missourians plan to rally outside the Governors Mansion at 11 a.m. Missourians in support of expansion plan to share their personal health care stories during the rally. Missouri Jobs with Justice has set up a hotline where Missourians can express their
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Mike Parson has signed a bill to require online retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases made by Missouri residents. Parson signed the bill Wednesday. Missouri is the last state with a sales tax to approve such a requirement. Buyers are still required to pay sales taxes. But many
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Public governmental bodies in Missouri cannot charge fees for the time attorneys spend redacting documents prior to their release to the public, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the court ruling noted that the Missouri Sunshine Law allows officials to charge requestors for “research”
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has signed legislation that could keep the identity of lottery winners secret. The bill signed Tuesday makes it a misdemeanor crime for Missouri Lottery officials or contractors to release the name, address or any identifying information about anyone who wins the lottery, unless the winner asks
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Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday presented a Municipal Utility Emergency Loan Program check to the City of Fulton for energy spike costs incurred during a February cold snap.
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The state of Missouri was right not to expand Medicaid eligibility despite a voter-approved constitutional amendment that would open up the program to more people.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A special session starts at noon Wednesday with the goal of extending the Federal Reimbursement Allowance, a tax that helps fund Medicaid. Gov. Mike Parson announced the special session Tuesday after setting a noon deadline to reach a deal on extension of the tax that could be passed during a special
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson will waste no time getting lawmakers into a special session to extend a tax on medical providers that helps fund Medicaid.
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Parson’s office said in an advisory sent Monday that the event will focus on the federal reimbursement allowance that helps fund Medicaid.
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Gov. Mike Parson said a new law limiting local health authorities’ powers to enact orders is needed after some overstepped their bounds during the coronavirus pandemic.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Starting tomorrow, the state is set to end all federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits. Missouri is among the first states to end pandemic-related programs for people who are out of work. At least 24 states led by Republican governors have decided to end pandemic-related unemployment benefits early for residents. The federal program, which
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Department of Natural Resources Director Carol S. Comer has died. According to the Associated Press, officials did not release a cause of death but Comer announced in July 2019 that she was undergoing chemotherapy to fight cancer. Comer was named director in Jan. 2017 by former Gov. Greitens. The Department
Continue Reading Missouri will end its status as the only state without a prescription drug monitoring program once the bill becomes law.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced 15 appointments to various boards and commissions. Six of the appointments are either from the Mid-Missouri area or to a Mid-Missouri institution. Spencer Bartlett, of Jefferson City, was appointed to the Administrative Hearing Commission.Kristina Bernskoetter, of Jefferson City, was appointed to the Children’s Trust Fund Board.Eric
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri’s National Guard is set to complete scaling back its help at vaccination sites across the state Tuesday. This comes as demand for the COVID-19 vaccine has significantly decreased in recent weeks. As of Tuesday, 74,939 vaccines had been administered in the last 7 days. Since the state began vaccinations, 4,538,144
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