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Missouri Senate considering bill designed to improve literacy of elementary school students
A Missouri Senate committee is considering legislation designed to improve literacy among elementary school students. Senate Bill 1442 includes a new reading assessment that all kids in 1st through 3rd grades would have to take three times a year to measure their...
Missourinet Sports Report
Blues defenseman blocks trade to Buffalo
Missouri’s Alpha-Gal Numbers Climb — MU Extension Responds with Five New Guides (LISTEN)
Show Me Today takes a closer look at a growing health issue right here in Missouri. MU Extension has just released a set of new guides to help families understand and manage it. Matt Pilger sat down with Eden Stewart, Nutrition and Health Specialist with the...
From KC to the Bootheel: Missouri Moves to Expand Agriculture Education (LISTEN)
Matt Pilger takes us inside a new effort at the Missouri Capitol aimed at connecting classrooms with the state’s deep agricultural roots. He sat down with Missouri State Senator Barbara Washington, who is sponsoring a bill that would expand hands-on agriculture...
Missouri Joins “Home For Every Child” Foster Care Improvement Initiative (LISTEN)
Missouri is the 2nd state to opt into a national initiative aimed at improving foster care. The main goal of the program is to ensure children have a safe, stable, loving environment. Missouri has over 11-thousand newborns-to-young adults in foster care. Sara...
Missouri-based experts and pundits weigh in on Iranian attack
With the U.S. and Israel continuing their assault on Iran, Americans are asking, what's next and how long will this last? Democratic analyst Michael Kelly told KMOX Radio in St. Louis that he believes the country is in for a drawn-out battle in the Middle East. “I...
Missouri Senators Schmitt and Hawley defend Kristi Noem’s record as Homeland Security Secretary
Both of Missouri’s U.S. Senators are defending Kristi Noem’s tenure as Homeland Security Secretary. During an oversight hearing Tuesday in Washington, Democrats blasted her job performance after ICE agents killed two protesters in Minnesota. But U.S. Sen. Eric...
Nurse at Mt. Vernon Veterans Home: I am exceedingly proud of the State of Missouri for this service (LISTEN)
The State of Missouri provides skilled care homes for its veterans, working with the V-A, and sometimes it's free. Ashley Byrd spoke with Becky McCann, a longtime nurse at the Missouri Veterans Commission home in Mt. Vernon. She is a veteran herself and explains how...
Missouri’s Union Membership Rate Holds Slightly Below National Average, Federal Data Shows
New federal labor statistics show that 9.8% of Missouri’s wage and salary workers belonged to a union in 2025, placing the state just under the national union membership rate of 10%. Missouri recorded an estimated 271,000 union members, according to state level data...
MSHSAA Orders Resumption of Highland vs Principia Girls Sectional After Scoring Error Review
The Missouri State High School Activities Association has ordered the resumption of the Class 3 sectional girls basketball game between Highland High School and Principia High School after finding that proper procedures were not followed regarding a scoring error and...
Missouri Rep. Alford Joins Top Secret Iran Update
Missouri Congressman Mark Alford says he’ll be inside a classified briefing today for an update on the U.S. mission against Iran. He called the ongoing operation “necessary.” “From intercontinental ballistic missiles that Iran was developing and then them bragging to...
An ‘Office of Transparency’ within Missouri prisons? A bill would create one
A Missouri House committee is debating whether to back a bill that would create an independent "Office of Transparency" within the state Department of Corrections. Sharon Geuea Jones with the Missouri State Conference of the NAACP testified in favor of HB 1616 at a...
Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Opposes State Plan to Restructure MSHSAA (LISTEN)
Show Me Today looks at a proposal that could overhaul how high school sports are governed in Missouri. The Missouri Basketball Coaches Association says the plan puts politics over kids, and they’re urging lawmakers to back off. Matt Pilger spoke with Executive...
Finding pathway to healing: Rep. Matthew Overcast proposes alternative treatment studies for Missouri veterans (LISTEN)
A military veteran serving in the Missouri Legislature wants the state to study the use of an alternative treatment to help with addiction, brain injuries, and mental health among other military veterans. In an effort to help them to thrive and be well, Ava State...
Missouri’s Josh Hawley supports Trump as U.S. forces attack Iran
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley continues to support President Trump as U.S. forces launched an attack against Iran that began this weekend and continues. He told Missourinet two days before the military campaign began that it’s crucial the Islamic republic not be allowed to...
Renewed effort to pass ‘Bentley’s Law’ in Missouri (LISTEN)
There’s a renewed effort to pass Bentley’s Law in Missouri. It would open the way to force those convicted of killing someone in a DWI crash to make child support payments to any surviving kids. Marshall Griffin visited with the sponsor of Bentley’s Law, Missouri...
Missourinet Sports Report
Blues defenseman blocks trade to Buffalo
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