by admin | Dec 12, 2019 | Business, Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, News, Science / Technology
A southeast Missouri lawmaker is optimistic her prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) legislation will finally pass in 2020. State Rep. Holly Rehder, R-Scott City, traveled to the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City on Wednesday to file House bill 1693. During a...
by admin | Nov 2, 2019 | Business, Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, News
A Missouri Senate committee studying gun violence is expected to hear several hours of testimony Monday in Jefferson City. The chairman of the newly-formed Senate Interim Committee on Public Safety is expecting a lengthy hearing at the Statehouse. The committee meets...
by admin | Oct 23, 2019 | Business, Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, News
A southeast Missouri state lawmaker who has championed prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) legislation for years hopes to pass it in her final year in the Missouri House. Missouri is the only state in the nation without a PDMP, which is an electronic database...
by admin | Sep 9, 2019 | News
Missouri lawmakers will return to the State Capitol in Jefferson City on Monday for a special session involving a complicated State Supreme Court ruling about vehicle sales. While it’s not officially on the special session agenda, Democrats in both the House and...
by admin | Sep 5, 2019 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, News
A key state senator from St. Louis is calling on Missouri’s GOP Senate leader to create an interim committee to study gun violence, saying it’s a public health crisis. State Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, D-St. Louis, notes 13 children have been killed in St. Louis...
