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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
