by admin | Jun 20, 2021 | Education, News
A newly-formed Missouri House committee on broadband development will hear testimony next month from Missouri’s largest general farm organization and from rural electric cooperatives. The Missouri House Special Interim Committee on Broadband Development has...
by admin | Jun 13, 2021 | Health / Medicine, News
A freshman state lawmaker who represents a district in far southern Missouri passed landmark prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) legislation in his first year in Jefferson City. State Rep. Travis Smith (R-Twin Bridges) represents Douglas, Ozark and Taney...
by admin | Jun 9, 2021 | Business, News, Politics / Govt, Transportation
(News director Andrew Pitkin at Missourinet Nevada affiliate KNEM contributed to this story) A rural western Missouri town known as the “Electric City” has landed a $6 million new transportation and logistics facility, bringing at least 60 new jobs to the...
by admin | May 8, 2021 | Business, Health / Medicine, History, News
The Missouri Legislature has voted to give final approval to an approximately $35 billion state operating budget, a budget that does not contain funding for Medicaid expansion. Democratic lawmakers are appealing directly to GOP Governor Mike Parson, urging him to work...
by admin | Jan 24, 2021 | Business, Health / Medicine, History, News
The Missouri House Budget Committee is expected to hold its first meeting of 2021 this week in Jefferson City. House Majority Floor Leader Dean Plocher, R-Des Peres, has released a revised House schedule. A technical session has been added on Friday, which will allow...