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1 month ago | 
mopress.com | Jackson Cooper |Mary Bell |Hannah Taylor |Natanya Friedheim
Statehouse Reporting Posted Friday, March 21, 2025 10:55 am Missouri News Network: Statehouse News for MPA Members This report is written by Missouri School of Journalism students for publication by MPA member newspapers in print and online. ----------------------------------------------------- With the legislature on break, Missouri News Network coverage this week focused on topics that are getting attention and where bills stand on those topics at the session’s midpoint. If you have...
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2 months ago | 
columbiamissourian.com | Natanya Friedheim |Fred Anklam
By Natanya Friedheim,Fred Anklam JEFFERSON CITY - House Republicans have taken their first steps at giving voters another chance to weigh in on abortion rights. House Joint Resolution 54 would ban all abortions except in cases of medical emergency, fetal anomaly, rape, or incest. The same proposed ballot measure would ban surgeries, hormones and drugs given to minors for the purpose of gender transitions.
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2 months ago | 
columbiamissourian.com | Natanya Friedheim |Fred Anklam
By Natanya Friedheim,Fred Anklam JEFFERSON CITY - Another year, another battle between Bayer and lawyers who represent clients suing the German pharmaceutical and chemical conglomerate. Bayer produces Roundup, a weed-killing herbicide used in farming. The company has spent at least $10 billion defending itself against lawsuits from people who claim glyphosate, a chemical used in Roundup, caused their non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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2 months ago | 
bransontrilakesnews.com | Natanya Friedheim
JEFFERSON CITY — Another year, another battle between Bayer and lawyers who represent clients suing the German pharmaceutical and chemical conglomerate. Bayer produces Roundup, a weed-killing herbicide used in farming. The company has spent at least $10 billion defending itself against lawsuits from people who claim glyphosate, a chemical used in Roundup, caused their non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Yong Li Xuan |Natanya Friedheim |Cara Penquite
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
fultonsun.com | Natanya Friedheim
A state judge scheduled a hearing for Dec. 4 in a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood affiliates seeking to block laws restricting abortion in Missouri. If the court grants their request for an injunction, two Missouri Planned Parenthood affiliates plan to offer surgical and medical abortions at clinics in Columbia, St. Louis and Kansas City. A request by the attorney general's office to transfer the lawsuit from Jackson County to Cole County could delay the hearing.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
komu.com | Natanya Friedheim
A state judge scheduled a hearing for Dec. 4 in a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood affiliates seeking to block laws restricting abortion in Missouri. If the court grants their request for an injunction, two Missouri Planned Parenthood affiliates plan to offer surgical and medical abortions at clinics in Columbia, St. Louis and Kansas City. A request by the attorney general's office to transfer the lawsuit from Jackson County to Cole County could delay the hearing.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Natanya Friedheim |Fred Anklam
By Natanya Friedheim,Fred Anklam A state judge scheduled a hearing for Dec. 4 in a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood affiliates seeking to block laws restricting abortion in Missouri. If the court grants their request for an injunction, two Missouri Planned Parenthood affiliates plan to offer surgical and medical abortions at clinics in Columbia, St. Louis and Kansas City.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Natanya Friedheim
By Natanya Friedheim Counties and cities cannot both levy taxes on marijuana products, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday. The decision by the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern Division against "stacking taxes" reversed a May ruling by a lower court that allowed the practice. The ruling could cost Boone and other counties a considerable source of revenue.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Natanya Friedheim |Fred Anklam
By Natanya Friedheim,Fred Anklam Abortion providers filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block a number of state laws restricting abortion access. The group behind Amendment 3, which enshrined the right to abortion in the Missouri Constitution, includes Planned Parenthood's Missouri affiliates and the American Civil Liberties Union and its Missouri affiliate.
