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Capitol Report 5/23/2025

2 weeks ago | mopress.com | Anna Sago |Fletcher Mantooth |Natanya Friedheim |Molly Gibbs

Missouri News Network: Statehouse News for MPA MembersThis report is written by Missouri School of Journalism students for publication by MPA member newspapers in print and online. -----------------------------------------------------Missouri News Network coverage this week focused on recapping the end of the legislative session. If you have thoughts or questions, contact Fred Anklam at [email protected].
Capitol Report 5/16/2025

3 weeks ago | mopress.com | Natanya Friedheim |Jackson Cooper |Mary Bell |Siobhan Harms

Statehouse Reporting Posted Friday, May 16, 2025 10:57 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. ----------------------------------------------------- Missouri News Network coverage this week focused on final passage or defeat of key legislation as the legislature wrapped up its work. If you have thoughts or questions, contact Fred Anklam at...
Can states help the national child care crisis?

1 month ago | news-journal.com | Alysa Horton |Anna Cecil |Chloe Gough |Sydney Topf |Aidan Pittman |Natanya Friedheim

On Monday, Janna Rodriguez will close the home day care she runs three hours early to hold a rally. She’s invited elected officials across Long Island to learn about the struggles she and other child care providers face. Rodriguez is one of more than 1,400 people who signed a pledge to close their child care center or call out of work for the fourth annual “Day Without Child Care.”“This is an act of protest,” said Dominique Countee of Community Change Action, the group organizing the event.
Capitol Report 4/21/2025

1 month ago | mopress.com | Natanya Friedheim |Mary Bell |Sterling Sewell |Molly Gibbs

Statehouse Reporting Posted Monday, April 21, 2025 9:23 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. ----------------------------------------------------- Missouri News Network coverage this week includes coverage of efforts to eliminate paid sick leave provisions of Proposition A, House action on a proposed constitutional amendment to restrict abortion...
Capitol Report 3/21/2025

2 months 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...
House takes first steps toward putting abortion limits on ballot

Jan 30, 2025 | 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.
Debate over Roundup bill focuses on herbicide's safety

Jan 28, 2025 | 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.
Debate over Roundup bill focuses on herbicide's safety

Jan 28, 2025 | 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.
Doug Fristoe's friends raise money to keep him in the neighborhood

Nov 29, 2024 | columbiamissourian.com | Yong Li Xuan |Natanya Friedheim |Cara Penquite
Bid to block abortion restrictions to get Dec. 4 hearing

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.