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Missouri launches task force to review, recommend updates to school funding formula
Democrat News - Missouri
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July 2, 2025
MOFB COMMENTARY Emily LeRoy, Senior Policy Advisor, Missouri Farm Bureau The Missouri Constitution declares that knowledge and intelligence are essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of people, and to that end, guarantees access...
Public invited to Military Flag Retreat Ceremony at Missouri State Fair
Newstalk KZRG - Missouri
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July 5, 2025
Home/Latest News/Public invited to Military Flag Retreat Ceremony at Missouri State Fair Members of the public are invited to the Military Flag Retreat Ceremony, held daily during the 2025 Missouri State Fair, Aug 7–17. This event is a heartfelt...
Missouri Department of Natural Resources awards $94,500 in grants to Bland, Irondale
Gasconade County Republican - Missouri
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JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has awarded Clean Water Engineering Report grants totaling $94,500 to the cities of Irondale ($62,500) and Bland ($32,000). Both communities will use the funding to evaluate their...
Lakeside residents overwhelmingly oppose proposed Flathead Lake Club
Daily Inter Lake - Montana
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July 11, 2025
Lakeside residents lined up to testify against a proposed 1,700-acre resort during the Flathead County Planning Board meeting Wednesday. Only a handful of residents spoke in favor of the subdivision. Top issues from residents during the nearly two...
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe cuts funding for CASA program
KSHB - Missouri
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July 1, 2025
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe cut $1.5 million from the $3 million originally budgeted for capital improvements and grants for CASA, a program that pairs trained volunteers with children in the foster system to help navigate the...
Peach State safety Tony Forney commits to Missouri: ‘I’m shutting my recruitment down’
On3
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July 4, 2025
Marietta (Ga.) Kell safety Tony Forney took his official visit to Missouri on June 6 and he left Columbia feeling good about the SEC in Columbia. Wisconsin was a competitor and over 30 schools offered the three-star, but he has committed to Eliah...
Opinion -- Missouri AG Charges Grain Belt Express with Lies, False Promises
Sheridan Express - Missouri
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July 4, 2025
By the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association On July 2, 2025, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announces he has issued a Civil Investigative Demand to Grain Belt Express, LLC following widespread concerns over misleading claims and a track...
Sponsored Content: Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri Expands Services for Vulnerable Populations
Southeast Missourian
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Reaching Out, Providing Hope, Changing Lives. Six simple words, but a powerful mission driving the work of Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri (CCSOMO). The agency addresses local needs and bridges service gaps through five core programs. In...
Missouri governor delivers $50.8 billion state budget
Newstalk KZRG - Missouri
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June 30, 2025
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – Delivering on his promise to present Missourians with a reasonable, conservative budget that continues to secure Missouri’s future, today Governor Mike Kehoe signed the Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) state operating and capital...
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...
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...
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...