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WEB5 days ago · The Missouri Independent is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to relentless investigative journalism and daily reporting that sheds light on state government and its impact on the lives of Missourians.
Sports wagering, minimum wage hike headed for November vote …
WEBAug 13, 2024 · The minimum wage and paid leave proposal builds on successful efforts in 2006 and 2018 to boost the pay of Missouri’s lowest wage workers. The 2006 change set the wage at $6.50 an hour at a time when the federal minimum wage was $5.15 an hour. It also included indexing for inflation, which had increased the minimum to …
Missouri election guide: The big questions voters will face on …
WEBNov 7, 2022 · Voters around the state have been taking advantage of Missouri’s first ever no-excuse early voting period the last two weeks. The early voting period ends at 5 p.m. Monday, and polls will be open for everyone else from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday.. Among the races on the statewide ballot this year include picking a replacement for retiring U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt and deciding whether Missouri ...
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WEB5 days ago · BY: Rebecca Rivas - August 31, 2024. Missouri regulators issued another cannabis recall on Friday, the third this month, this time for about 37,000 marijuana products. That brings the total number of marijuana products recalled in August to up nearly 175,000 — almost triple Missouri’s first massive cannabis product recall a year ago.
‘This job is impossible’: High turnover, low morale plague Missouri ...
WEBSep 19, 2022 · Government + Politics; Legislature ‘This job is impossible’: High turnover, low morale plague Missouri child welfare agency More than half the frontline staff working in the Children’s Division at the start of the last fiscal year left by the end of the year.
Calls from Missouri to new 988 crisis hotline up 136% since 2022
WEBAug 23, 2024 · Missouri has seen one of the nation’s largest increases in calls to the revamped national hotline that aids people facing mental health crises. The number of calls to 988 from Missouri jumped 136% in May 2024 compared to May 2022, according to recent data from the health policy nonprofit KFF. That’s a greater increase than the national ...
Introducing The Missouri Independent: ‘Detectives for the people’
WEBJason Hancock. October 20, 2020 5:55 am. Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City. (Photo by ©Walter Bibikow) Legendary New York muckraker Wayne Barrett was once asked to explain to his son’s elementary school what it meant to be an investigative journalist. He quipped, “We are detectives for the people.”. That line always stuck with me.
Ban on Missouri hemp-THC products delayed in ... - Missouri …
WEBAug 22, 2024 · The governor’s ban on intoxicating hemp products hit a delay Wednesday after Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft rejected the emergency rules detailing how it would have been enforced.. Gov. Mike Parson signed an executive order earlier this month to remove all hemp-derived THC edibles and beverages from store shelves and threatening penalties to any establishment with a Missouri liquor ...
Administrative law judges sue Missouri governor for wrongful ...
WEBAug 23, 2024 · A pair of administrative law judges are suing the Parson administration claiming wrongful termination and illegal withholding of salary. Ryan Asbridge, who has served as an administrative law judge since 2019, and Gina Mitten, who has served since 2021, filed a lawsuit last week in Cole Circuit Court.
Missouri voters amend state constitution to legalize recreational ...
WEBNov 9, 2022 · Missourians voted Tuesday to become the 21st state to legalize recreational marijuana, approving a constitutional amendment that also establishes a process to clear nonviolent marijuana-related charges from Missourians’ criminal records. Though down from the 66% of voters who approved medical cannabis in 2018, the recreational marijuana amendment on Tuesday received 53% of the vote. “Today ...
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