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Missouri Governor Kehoe signs fiscal year budget
KY3 - Missouri
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June 30, 2025
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Edited News Release/KY3) - Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed the Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) state operating and capital improvement budget bills on Monday. The $50.8 billion budget includes 208 vetoes, totaling nearly $300...
Missouri forms special committee to consider property tax reform
KSHB - Missouri
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July 1, 2025
KSHB 41 reporter Charlie Keegan covers politics on both sides of the state line. If you have a story idea to share, you can send Charlie an email at charlie.keegan@kshb.com. — Missouri Speaker of the House Jon Patterson created the Special Interim...
Missouri senators attempt to broker deal between disgruntled insurance and hospital system
KCTV 5 - Missouri
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June 30, 2025
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Tens of thousands of Missourians lost insurance coverage to their preferred doctor because of a disagreement between a hospital system and insurance provider. State lawmakers are now taking matters into their own hands...
Missouri state senators attempt to broker deal between the disgruntled insurance and hospital system
KY3 - Missouri
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June 30, 2025
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Tens of thousands of Missourians lost insurance coverage for their preferred doctor due to a disagreement between a hospital system and an insurance provider. State lawmakers are now taking matters into their own hands to...
Public educators sue Missouri over $51 million allocation to private school voucher program
KOMU 8 - Missouri
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COLUMBIA — A Boone County educator has filed a lawsuit alongside a Jackson County teacher against the state over a $50 million appropriation in the 2025-26 state budget to support Missouri's private school voucher program. Rebeka McIntosh and...
Clean energy power line project faces legal challenge in Missouri
Environmental Health News
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July 3, 2025
An 804-mile wind energy transmission line slated to cross four states is now under investigation by Missouri’s attorney general, threatening to derail one of the country’s biggest clean energy infrastructure projects. David Gelles reports for The...
How to protect yourself in floods: Weather alerts, maps and more
The Knoxville News-Sentinel - Tennessee
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Deadly flooding in Texas, combined with the recent trauma from fatal Hurricane Helene flooding in East Tennessee, has prompted questions about warning signs during hazardous weather. The Texas flooding has left over 100 people dead and many more...
Northwest Missouri State leads U.S. universities in electronics recycling
NW Missouri Times
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July 3, 2025
Dr. Lance Tatum, President | Northwest Missouri State UniversityDr. Lance Tatum, President | Northwest Missouri State University Northwest Missouri State University has once again excelled in a national competition aimed at reducing campus waste....
Mountain Grove couple named Missouri Tree Farmers of the Year
University of Missouri Extension
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MOUNTAIN GROVE, Mo. – You can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear. That is what University of Missouri Extension state specialist in forestry Hank Stelzer often hears when talking with landowners, and even some professional foresters, about an...
Officials: U.P. at low risk for natural disasters
The Daily Press - Michigan
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ESCANABA — With a string of thunderstorms and unusually warm weather hitting the area over the last few weeks, some may be wondering exactly what risk tornadoes, high winds and other natural disasters pose to Delta County. According to the Federal...
Minteer awarded NSF grant to develop sustainable fuel technology
Missouri S&T News
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July 3, 2025
How can we turn carbon dioxide into fuel? Biomanufacturing might be the answer. Dr. Shelley D. Minteer, founding director of the Kummer Institute Center for Resource Sustainability and professor of chemistry; and Dr. Fateme Fayyazbakhsh, assistant...
Leaders praise Missouri B-2 bomber pilots steering ‘Operation Midnight Hammer’
Houston Herald - Missouri
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July 3, 2025
Operation Midnight Hammer is the kind of mission that Whiteman Air Force Base’s B-2 Spirit stealth bomber pilots have been trained to do. On Saturday, June 20, it was not a drill. Several national media organizations reported B-2 stealth bombers...
Opinion: Missouri families need the 'Unsafe School Choice Option'
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Missouri
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Susan Pendergrass When asked why they want school choice, families often cite safety as their number one reason, which makes sense. How is a child supposed to learn if they’re afraid to be at school? Under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act...
Missouri Senate committee to hear testimony in MU Health Care and Anthem contract dispute Monday
KMIZ ABC 17 - Missouri
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June 29, 2025
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Senate's Insurance and Banking Committee is set to hear testimony from University of Missouri Health Care and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield on Monday, in an effort to break the stalemate in insurance negotiations....
Plants vs. Critters: Missouri Releases Strategy Guide for Backyard Battles
Mix 92.3 - Missouri
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July 3, 2025
Gentle Reader, you might be aware that I've gone a little nuts in the plant department lately. Well, I think it's a little nuts, anyway. I have many, many plants on my back porch and on the front porch, all the way around the house, and inside as...
Grain Belt Express responds as Missouri AG launches investigation over project promises
KHQA 7 - Missouri
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JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has launched a civil investigation into Grain Belt Express, accusing the company of misleading the public and misrepresenting the benefits of its massive energy transmission...
Northwest Missouri State advances $105 million infrastructure project
NW Missouri Times
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July 1, 2025
Northwest Missouri State University is progressing with the second phase of a significant infrastructure modernization project this summer. The project, estimated at $105 million, includes an expansion and renovation of Martindale Hall. Upon...
When your garden becomes a drive-thru for wildlife
University of Missouri Extension
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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Most gardeners know the frustration of having a beautiful garden decimated by wildlife, said University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein. Wildlife can be more formidable pests than insects, diseases and weeds....
Trump’s Scorched Earth Environmental Policies Will Harm Us All
Current Affairs
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July 2, 2025
Since January, the Trump administration has done everything within its power to exacerbate our climate crisis. The budget bill on the horizon will codify much of the DOGE and administrative gutting of climate programs we’ve seen over these last...
Missouri mosquito testing is inadequate, experts warn after West Nile case in Illinois
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Missouri
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Experts are warning that mosquito monitoring in Missouri is inadequate, days after the first bad case of the West Nile virus this year was discovered in Illinois. Illinois authorities announced this week that a person had been hospitalized with...