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A group turned in more than 200,000 signatures backing the effort to eventually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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Sheep producers in the Midwest say wool prices have been dismal for decades, but in recent years they’ve plummeted. Now producers are looking for new ways to add value to this fiber or drop it all together.
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One poll shows a quarter of GOP respondents would vote to legalize abortion in Missouri while Republicans would still win the governorship.
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A recently-awarded grant of nearly $798,000 will allow more staffing for Springfield's mental health partnership between police and Burrell Behavioral Health.
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After a 270-acre landfill was proposed for a site just south of Missouri Highway 150 in Kansas City, communities rallied against it. The bill now awaiting Gov. Mike Parson’s signature would prohibit a landfill from being built in Kansas City within a mile of another municipality unless that adjoining city approves the project.
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A bill headed to the Missouri governor's desk would require larger school districts to receive voter approval before adopting a four-day week. That includes the Independence School District, which switched to a four-day week this school year to attract more teachers.
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A newly released report by the Strada Education Foundation explores whether a college education is worth it. According to new data, it is for many in Missouri and Illinois.
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The Senate begins work Tuesday on Missouri’s roughly $50 billion state budget, with questions still swirling around renewing a tax that funds Medicaid and a GOP infighting that could derail the process.
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For the second year in a row, dispensaries across the state experienced IT problems on the industry’s biggest and most important sales day.
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With GOP leaders barring amendments to a 153-page education bill approved by the Senate earlier this year, the House mustered just enough votes Thursday to pass the wide-ranging education bill that includes money to boost teacher salaries.
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A major piece of unfinished business is a proposed ballot item that would make it more difficult to amend the state constitution.
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Despite Missouri and Illinois reporting fewer traffic-related deaths in 2023, more than 40,000 people were killed in traffic-related incidents across the U.S. last year.