The Supreme Court is siding with the Trump administration to block the questioning of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross about his decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The unsigned order Monday overrides lower federal courts in New ...
Read More »Missouri House Speaker Richardson to become Medicaid chief
Missouri House Speaker Todd Richardson has been appointed the next director of Missouri’s multi-billion-dollar Medicaid program, vowing to improve health care for hundreds of thousands of low-income residents while restraining rising costs. Richardson will resign from the Legislature to start ...
Read More »Sandra Day O’Connor withdraws from public life
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has stepped back from public life. For more than a decade after leaving the court in 2006, O’Connor kept up an active schedule: serving as a visiting federal appeals court ...
Read More »Company gauges interest for boosting Dakota Access capacity
The developer of the Dakota Access pipeline is gauging shippers’ interest in a possible expansion of the volume of crude oil moved through the pipeline from 500,000 barrels to 570,000 barrels per day, despite ongoing tribal efforts to shut the ...
Read More »Mega Millions players would spend $1.6B on bills, charity
With the Mega Millions lottery jackpot at a record $1.6 billion, people are snapping up tickets across the U.S. The Powerball jackpot also has climbed. It’s up to an estimated $620 million for Wednesday’s drawing. That would make it the ...
Read More »Missouri GOP sends 10,000 voters wrong ballot information
The Missouri Republican Party says a miscommunication caused 10,000 voters in the state to receive mailers with incorrect information about when their absentee ballots are due. Ray Bozarth is the party’s executive director. He said that there was a miscommunication ...
Read More »Missouri court lets voter photo-ID injunction stay in place
The Missouri Supreme Court has allowed an injunction to remain in place against part of the state’s voter photo-identification law. A Cole County judge issued an injunction earlier this month against a provision requiring people lacking photo identification to sign ...
Read More »Hawley doesn’t use email while doing AG’s work
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, who promotes himself during his Senate campaign as a proponent of transparent government, refuses to use email while conducting state business. Critics say that means he is not creating public records of his work. The ...
Read More »Rising rates, slowing home sales expected to hurt remodelers
General contractors and other small businesses in the home-remodeling industry can expect revenue to slow in 2019, the result of rising mortgage rates and sluggish home sales. That’s the prediction of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, which last ...
Read More »Transgender rights lie in the hands of a state’s electorate
Nicole Talbot isn’t quite old enough to vote next month, however, she isn’t shy about urging Massachusetts voters to keep a state law that protects transgender people from discrimination, including the right to use restrooms and locker rooms that match ...
Read More »Rural Missouri sees increase in methamphetamine use
Methamphetamine is on the upswing in Missouri, including rural communities that the drug has already ravaged for decades, according to state officials and individuals recovering from addiction. Sgt. Mark McClendon of the Missouri State Highway Patrol said that meth is ...
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