Kansas City
How climate change has affected the heartland – in just one monthIn late June I left Kansas City by car on my annual jaunt to New York and to my native New Jersey. The day I left it was 97 degrees,… Read More
Springfield
Three Springfield-Greene County Library branches could receive major upgrades and rebuildsSPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Three major initiatives are being discussed at the Springfield-Greene County Library District: the hiring of a construction firm to build a new auditorium at the Library Center,… Read More
President Biden
Biden turns back on question about potential pardon for his son(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden declined to answer questions Thursday about a potential pardon for his son, Hunter Biden. After the president spoke about an unrelated… Read More
President Donald Trump
Trump says Jack Smith should be jailed after superseding indictment(The Center Square) – Former President Donald Trump said Friday that U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith should be jailed after prosecutors filed a superseding indictment alleging the former president committed… Read More
Congress, COVID-19
Attempt to reinstate pilots fired over COVID-19 vaccine mandate fails in Congress(The Center Square) – Eighty-three House Republicans voted against a measure that would have required commercial airlines receiving federal money to reinstate pilots who were fired for not complying with… Read More
Illegal Immigration
525 known, suspected terrorists apprehended attempting to illegally enter U.S. in nine months(The Center Square) – Nine months into fiscal 2023, more known or suspected terrorists have been apprehended at the northern and southwest borders than in all of fiscal 2022.So far… Read More
Josh Hawley
‘The illnesses are ongoing’: Tempered celebration, as Hawley bill to compensate St. Louis-area radiation victims put into defense actDawn Chapman was pregnant with all three of her children while living near WWII radioactive waste in a landfill outside of St. Louis. Today, she says while breaking down, one… Read More
Courts, Missouri
Missouri AG vows not to ‘let left-wing ideologues experiment on children,’ in lawsuit attacking state’s ban on trans treatments for kidsThe ACLU of Missouri and two other organizations filed a lawsuit this week challenging Missouri’s new law protecting minors from transgender treatments.Senate Bill 49, called the “Missouri Save Adolescents from Experimentation… Read More
St. Louis
Hawley blocking Energy Department promotions, raises until feds do more to monitor, clean up, pay up after St. Louis radioactive contaminationThe federal government never really cleaned up WWII-era radioactive waste in the St. Louis region, and still isn’t even properly monitoring it, argues an increasingly indignant Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley. Read More
Illegal Immigration
New York lawmakers seek ‘transparency’ in migrant relocations(The Center Square) — New York lawmakers are pushing for more transparency in asylum seekers' relocations with proposals requiring advance notice to local governments when migrants are moved to upstate… Read More
Biden administration
Florida AG: Congress should strip Mayorkas of his salary for failing to enforce immigration law(The Center Square) – Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody wants Congress to strip Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of his salary for what she says is his failure… Read More
Federal Spending
High percentage of federal police funding supplied to sanctuary jurisdictions(The Center Square) – More than 40% of grants from the largest sources of federal police funding went in 2021 to sanctuary jurisdictions, including all six in North Carolina. In… Read More
Missouri
Missouri woman pleads guilty to fraud after obtaining over $100K in pandemic loan funds(The Center Square) – A woman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to defrauding a COVID-19 pandemic loan program out of $100,927 in U.S. District Court in St. Louis. Francheska Reese, 36,… Read More
Missouri, Sports
As high school football season looms, referee shortages force schedule changes across MissouriAs football season quickly approaches some high school teams have already been forced to change their schedules for the second year in a row, due to a critical shortage of… Read More
Kansas
Audit finds rampant cybersecurity issues at Kansas agencies(The Sentinel) — More than two years after Kansas became the No. 1 state for unemployment fraud in the nation, a new IT audit finds massive security issues persist… Read More
Economy, Inflation
Poll: Cost of living, job opportunities top list of reasons people relocate(The Center Square) – A new State Policy Network poll finds 8% of all voters surveyed have moved to a new state in the past two years, with cost of… Read More
Economy, Inflation
Federal Reserve hikes rates to highest level in 22 years(The Center Square) — The U.S. Federal Reserve Board announced another increase to the federal funds rate Wednesday, raising the target range to 5.25 to 5.5%, the highest rate in… Read More
Hunter Biden
Hunter Biden pleads not guilty after plea deal on tax, gun charges falls apart(The Center Square) – Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to tax-related charges after a highly unusual court hearing where his previously established plea… Read More
President Biden
Hawley: Time for ‘targeted’ impeachment-style House investigation of President Biden for his family’s shadowy foreign earningsSen. Josh Hawley Wednesday called for a “targeted investigation” by the House of President Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s millions in payments from foreign actors – something that sounds… Read More
Drugs, Missouri
‘Addiction is Real’ educates parents and communities about hidden dangers of substance abuseST. LOUIS, Mo. – Addiction is real, as the spike in teen overdose deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically illustrates. Yet the internet is actually offering products with which youths… Read More