Tag: Missouri
How Anti-Worker Lawmakers Are Trying to Muzzle Voters
Missouri voters overturned a right-to-work law at the ballot box in 2018. In August they decide whether to make citizen-led referendums far harder to use.
Mo. Senator Eric Schmitt’s asinine SHIELD Act would classify blowing whistles...
Meanwhile Schmitt ignores blatant obstruction by Bondi’s DOJ.
Seven dead in ICE custody in Trump’s first 100 days as...
At least seven migrants have died in ICE custody since January, as the Trump administration expands detention and dismantles oversight across a system plagued by abuse, neglect, and inhumane conditions.
Three months after Missouri voted to make abortion legal, access is...
Are anti-abortion lawmakers strategizing to prevent a return of abortion services?
In blow to GOP narrative, Missouri cut to jobless benefits not...
“It’s almost as if the pandemic unemployment benefits weren’t the issue.”
Kansas City, Missouri implements Zero Fare Transit; first major US city...
While other cities such as Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Denver have floated around the idea, Kansas City is now the first U.S. city to offer fare-free transit.
Missouri’s last abortion clinic faces imminent closure. Meet one of the...
“This is harassment and attempted intimidation of doctors at the highest levels of government.”
Megadonor’s threat wasn’t enough to stop Missouri abortion ban
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday signed a bill into law that would ban abortion after eight weeks of pregnancy, defying a plea from a major megadonor.
Former county executive and chief of staff sentenced to prison
Michael Sanders defrauded political committees by converting campaign contributions for his personal use along with his then-chief of staff Calvin Williford.
Prosecutors drop felony charge after Missouri Governor resigns
In light of Eric Greitens’ recent resignation, the Missouri House committee is no longer pursuing impeachment proceedings against the former governor.
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Supreme Court curbs judicial review of TPS terminations, putting hundreds of thousands at risk...
In Mullin v. Doe, a 6-3 majority held that federal courts generally cannot second-guess Homeland Security's decisions to end Temporary Protected Status.
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Mississippi pension fund sues Apollo Global Management over downplayed Epstein ties
The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
Trump administration’s mass layoffs at NIOSH gut program investigating firefighter deaths
A ProPublica investigation found the April cuts reached the unit that reviews line-of-duty fire deaths and a landmark firefighter cancer registry, though the administration later reinstated some staff.