by Marshall Griffin | Feb 5, 2024 | News
A critical aluminum plant remains closed in southeastern Missouri’s Marston as state and federal leaders look for ways to get it reopened. Magnitude 7 Metals laid off its workers January 28th, citing unusually cold weather and a lack of financial investment to keep...
by Marshall Griffin | Feb 1, 2024 | News, Politics / Govt
Missouri Governor Mike Parson will travel to Texas this weekend to visit the US/Mexico border. He’s scheduled to attend a briefing in Eagle Pass on Sunday with 14 other Republican governors on Operation Lone Star. The operation is being conducted to block illegal...
by Anthony Morabith | Jan 30, 2024 | Business, News
Sen. Jason Bean, R-Holcomb, says he was ‘caught completely off guard’ when he heard that Magnitude 7 Metals in Marston is closing. The abrupt closure leaves close to 500 people jobless. The Republican lawmaker says that the Missouri Department of Higher Education and...
by Marshall Griffin | Jan 25, 2024 | News, Politics / Govt
Missouri is pushing back against efforts to stop commercial sales of ammunition produced at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence. Twenty Democratic attorneys general penned a letter to President Biden saying that the military-grade ammo produced at the...
by Marshall Griffin | Jan 22, 2024 | News, Politics / Govt
St. Louis-area Congresswoman Cori Bush wants Attorney General Andrew Bailey to force the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority to pay back money owed the state. The Democratic U.S. House member is criticizing Bailey, a Republican, for his role in blocking President...