West-central Missouri Congressman Mark Alford has introduced legislation he says could help keep rural hospitals from closing their doors. The bill known as Sustaining Rural Healthcare Act would create a new designation for hospitals—one Alford believes will expand...
Small business owners in the Kansas City area got a chance to voice some of their concerns to members of Congress during a roundtable meeting last Friday. U.S. House Small Business Committee members who attended were from both political parties, and the meeting was...
A U.S. House committee is examining a decades-long decline in entrepreneurship among military veterans. U.S. Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo. 4th District, sits on U.S. House Committee on Small Business. During a hearing last week, he said many veterans want to start their own...
President Trump has threatened to pull World Cup games out of U.S. cities with crime problems that are also led by Democratic mayors. U.S. Rep. Mark Alford, R-Mo. 4th District, told Missourinet he is urging Trump to keep World Cup games in Kansas City. “It’s...
U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell, D-Mo. 1st District, is pushing for U.S. House members to vote to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire and sex offender who died in jail in 2019. “Even if my mother was in the Epstein files, I would be supporting...
