
Missouri Indepedent
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1 week ago |
19thnews.org | Jason Hancock |Missouri Indepedent
Published The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a judge in Kansas City to lift an injunction that had blocked restrictions on abortion, a decision that upends access to the procedure six months after voters enshrined reproductive rights into the state constitution. The two-page order imposes a “de facto abortion ban” in the state, according to the leaders of the state’s two Planned Parenthood affiliates.
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Dec 9, 2024 |
19thnews.org | Rachel Somerstein |Tara García Mathewson |Jason Hancock |Missouri Indepedent
Published This story was originally published by Next City. Amaryllis Castillo gets to work at 7:45 a.m. for her job as a certified home health aide. The mother of two, who was 26 weeks pregnant when we spoke, works a six-hour shift caring for elderly patients, taking them to activities and out for lunch.
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Dec 9, 2024 |
19thnews.org | Tara García Mathewson |Jason Hancock |Missouri Indepedent |Sarah Ladd
Published This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In 1953, Bárbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington Elementary School in Madera, California, a small city in the Central Valley surrounded by farm fields. Her mother and grandmother had talked it up: You’re going to learn a lot. You’re going to like it. She believed them. A little girl who would one day become a teacher, Flores was excited. But only until she got there.
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Nov 8, 2024 |
19thnews.org | Jason Hancock |Missouri Indepedent |Sarah Ladd |Kentucky Lantern
Published Missourians voted Tuesday night to protect abortion rights, raise the minimum wage and guarantee paid sick leave for workers. They also voted by wide margins to send Republicans to Jefferson City who vehemently oppose those proposals and may try to roll them back. It’s become a familiar pattern in Missouri — progressive ballot measures like Medicaid expansion and marijuana legalization finding success in a state where Republicans have dominated for more than a decade.
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Oct 15, 2023 |
moberlymonitor.com | Allison Kite |Missouri Indepedent
State regulators gave final approval Thursday to the owners of the Grain Belt Express transmission line to drop off thousands of megawatts of clean power in Missouri. The decision by the Missouri Public Service Commission was the final regulatory approval Chicago-based Invenergy needed to begin the first phase of the line, to be built in Kansas and Missouri.
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