January 2025 will mark the start of a new term for the recently elected leaders. The Republican party will hold a supermajority in both Missouri’s House of Representatives and Senate.
Missouri voters reject the idea of charging people fees to cover government's responsibilities. Are lawmakers listening?
Some Republican lawmakers want to limit — or possibly overturn — Amendment 3, which legalizes abortion, and Proposition A, which raises the state’s minimum wage to $15 by 2026.
The statement by House Majority Leader Jon Patterson came as he tries to defuse a challenge for speaker from his right flank.
While passing Amendment 3 safeguards abortion rights in Missouri for now, health care providers say people are still worried about access to reproductive care under the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
Trevor Hawkins, an attorney at Legal Aid of Arkansas, remembers how busy his job got when the state for a time imposed work requirements on Medicaid recipients: His office was swamped with frantic phone calls from people who said they couldn’t comply with the new rule because they weren’t healthy enough to work or had
The trustees of Missouri’s largest state employee retirement system voted Thursday to prohibit the use of pension funds for political contributions. The Missouri State Employees Retirement System board,
The Missouri Republican is known for advancing arguments made in Project 2025, including that the Comstock Act should prevent the mailing of abortion pills.
The not-for-profit group originally set up to pay for Gov. Mike Parson's 2021 inauguration gave $150,000 this week to the political action committee that helped get him elected.
Election reform advocates raised about $110 million for the statewide ballot measures, vastly outpacing their opponents, according to an Associated Press analysis of campaign finance figures that could grow even larger as post-election reports are filed. Still, their promotional push wasn't enough to persuade most voters.
Thousands of activists convened for a racial justice conference and vowed to continue to fight against inequities