Employee recruitment and retention continues to be a problem at the Missouri Department of Mental Health. Valerie Huhn, the department’s director, told a panel of state lawmakers that workforce is the most significant barrier to the department performing the services...
The Missouri Lottery is seeing a big year when it comes to total sales – $1.8 billion, the second highest in the lottery’s 38-year history. Lester Elder, the Missouri Lottery Commission’s director, said $425 million dollars were transferred to education in Fiscal Year...
Missouri is a national leader when it comes to 988 crisis hotline response times. That is what Director Valerie Huhn, the Director of the Missouri Department of Mental Health told a committee of lawmakers this week. In October, Missouri 988 received 5,311 phone calls,...
State Sen. Bill Eigel, R-Weldon Spring, hopes to bring back a proposal in 2024 that would make it tougher to pass initiative petitions. Eigel, a Republican running for governor, says in addition to the simple 50% plus one simple majority, he is proposing a second...
Missouri is working to make its Medicaid program sustainable after voters approved the expansion of the government healthcare program. The 2020 campaign added roughly another 230,000 low-income adults to the program. During a state budget subcommittee hearing, Todd...
