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...
by admin | Jan 21, 2021 | Business, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
A ceremony is scheduled for Friday evening in southwest Missouri’s Monett for a new state-of-the-art $42 million hospital. Monett, which has about 9,000 residents, is located between Joplin and Springfield. Springfield-based CoxHealth broke ground on the...
by admin | Dec 31, 2020 | Business, Health / Medicine, Military, News, Politics / Govt
Missouri’s governor announced Wednesday in Jefferson City that more than 66,000 frontline health care workers and nursing home residents and staff have received the initial COVID vaccine. Governor Mike Parson tells Capitol reporters that he’s pleased with...
by admin | Dec 30, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt, Transportation, Weather
A congressman from the southwest Missouri Ozarks will file a bill again in 2021, aimed at preventing future deaths of kayakers. U.S. Rep. Billy Long, R-Springfield, notes three kayakers have drowned in the same location on Bull Creek in the past 17 months. The...
by admin | Dec 24, 2020 | Education, Health / Medicine, History, News
A former Missouri lawmaker from the Ozarks who led the effort to rename Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield has died at the age of 80. Springfield television station KY-3 quotes family members as saying former State Rep. B.J. Marsh, R-Springfield, died...