Missouri lawmakers are to meet in a special session starting May 18 to consider whether to initiate impeachment proceedings against Republican Gov. Eric Greitens to try to remove him from office. That comes as Greitens faces felony charges in two ...
Read More »Greitens’ lawyer argues to bar attorney general from probe
A lawyer for Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens argued Thursday that Attorney General Josh Hawley should be barred from investigating the governor because of critical comments that he suggested were partly motivated by Hawley’s candidacy for the U.S. Senate. During a ...
Read More »AP: Most legislatures have no public sex harassment records
During the past 15 months, dozens of state lawmakers across the nation have been forced from office, removed from leadership roles, reprimanded or publicly accused of sexual misconduct in a mounting backlash against misbehavior by those in power. Yet the ...
Read More »Court filing says woman in Greitens’ affair unsure of memory
Attorneys defending Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens against a felony invasion-of-privacy charge have raised new doubts about a key allegation that he took a nonconsensual photo of a partially nude woman with whom he had an affair. In a court filing ...
Read More »Missouri Senate boosts training on sexual harassment
The Missouri Senate has updated its sexual harassment policy to require more frequent training for lawmakers and staff, joining a national trend of stronger legislative policies amid increased public attention to misconduct allegations. Until now, Missouri senators and staff had ...
Read More »Missouri lawmaker wants House intern program suspended
A Missouri lawmaker wants the state House to suspend its intern program and further strengthen its policies on sexual harassment, citing an increase in formal complaints about inappropriate conduct over the past couple years. Rep. Courtney Allen Curtis, a Ferguson ...
Read More »Trump infrastructure plan seeks to shift burden to states
When President Donald Trump called for a $1.5 trillion infrastructure investment in his State of the Union address, he didn’t pledge that the federal government actually would provide that much money for roads, bridges, rail and waterways. To the contrary, ...
Read More »States rethink sexual misconduct policies after complaints
After a tumultuous few months that saw numerous lawmakers accused of sexual misconduct, a majority of state legislatures across the country are considering strengthening sexual harassment policies that have gone unheeded or unchanged for years. A 50-state review by The ...
Read More »How much partisanship is too much? Efficiency gap gauges it
To say there is an “efficiency gap” between two people is a wonky way of claiming one person is more productive than another at work. Perhaps one has an advantage of better tools. That’s essentially what’s being measured by a ...
Read More »AP analysis shows more unopposed Missouri races, GOP edge
For the past six years, voters in rural northeastern Missouri have had only one choice for their state representative: a Republican. The same has been true for voters in part of Kansas City, where their lone option has been a ...
Read More »Missouri targets doctor dearth, expands first-in-nation law
Numerous additional doctors from around the U.S. could become eligible to treat patients in Missouri’s underserved areas as a result of a planned expansion of a first-in-the-nation law aimed at addressing a pervasive doctor shortage. The newly passed Missouri legislation ...
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