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Mar 14, 2024 | 
komu.com | Michelle-Renee Quinn
It's spring break for Missouri lawmakers and renewing the Federal Reimbursement Allowance (FRA) remains on their "to-do" list. FRA renewal is one task the Missouri General Assembly must accomplish by this fall. It provides federal funds for reimbursement of medical expenses covered by Medicaid programs. Through the reimbursement program, the federal government provides billions of dollars to the state to reimburse Medicaid participants for health costs.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
missouribusinessalert.com | Michelle-Renee Quinn
Missourians interested in careers in the cannabis industry can now earn a certificate in cannabis education. Green Flower is a California-based training provider for the cannabis industry. It created a virtual cannabis curriculum program to help develop the cannabis workforce.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
komu.com | Michelle-Renee Quinn
Missourians interested in careers in the cannabis industry can now earn a certificate in cannabis education. Green Flower is a California-based training provider for the cannabis industry. It created a virtual cannabis curriculum program to help develop the cannabis workforce.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
komu.com | Michelle-Renee Quinn
"Girls State," a film that follows a group of Missouri high school girls as they build a government from the ground up, is this year's Show Me True/False title for the ongoing True/False Film Fest. The film will show at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Fest, with its co-directors, Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, holding an extended in-person Q&A at Jesse Auditorium at the University of Missouri after the screening. The film will show again at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the Missouri Theatre.
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Feb 24, 2024 | 
komu.com | Michelle-Renee Quinn
COLUMBIA - Local Arch and Column Pub is holding a vigil to honor nonbinary Oklahoma teenager who died the day after a fight in a high school bathroom. Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old Oklahoma student identified as nonbinary and used they/them pronouns. As a result of bullying, they got into an altercation with three girls in an Owasso High School bathroom who had been picking on Benedict and some friends. This comes just a few years after Oklahoma state legislature passed a “bathroom bill” in 2022.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
komu.com | Michelle-Renee Quinn
BOONE COUNTY — The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday the approval of year-round sales of higher ethanol. The rule, which takes effect in April 2025, will affect eight states that grow the bulk of U.S. corn crops. Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin are home to much of the nation’s ethanol production. The states will be able to sell higher blends of ethanol year-round.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
komu.com | Michelle-Renee Quinn
COLUMBIA — The City of Columbia is transitioning customers' automatic utility payments to the finance department’s new consolidated payment platform, PayCoMo. The platform launched in May, and the autopay feature was added in January. "Customers that are currently enrolled in automatic payments will soon be moving to this new platform if they want to continue autopay," city treasurer Chelsea Miller said.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
komu.com | Michelle-Renee Quinn
COLUMBIA — Pluvicto, a radiopharmaceutical treatment for prostate cancer, will be available at the Missouri Cancer Association by the end of spring. The treatment is currently offered through a pilot program at MU Health Care. Pluvicto includes the radioisotope lutetium-177 (Lu-177), which is exclusively produced at the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR). MURR was the first to roll out Pluvicto, a collaboration of nuclear medicine and radiation oncology.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
komu.com | Michelle-Renee Quinn
HARRISBURG — The Office of Broadband Development (OBD) continues its mission to connect all Missourians to the internet by 2028. Missouri residents living in more rural areas have been under or unserved when it comes to service, connection and access to the internet. One Harrisburg man said when he and his wife built their house, they hoped one day it would improve. "The cell service is very sketchy.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
komu.com | Michelle-Renee Quinn
COLUMBIA − Missouri requires a teacher’s minimum starting salary to be $25,000 despite a national minimum living wage of $47,000, according to the Missouri National Education Association (MNEA). For full-time teachers with at least 10 years of public teaching experience and a master's degree, Missouri requires a minimum salary of $33,000. MNEA ranks the state of Missouri as last in average starting teacher salaries, with an average of $34,052.
