Missourinet

2 days ago | missourinet.com | Marshall Griffin

A smoked and processed meat producer is expanding its plant in northwest Missouri’s St. Joseph. Daily’s Premium Meats will create 115 new jobs in the St. Joseph area. The $95 million investment will pay for a new bay to be built next to its current building, which the company said will more than double its current production capacity. “We congratulate Daily’s Premium Meats on its expansion in St. Joseph,” said Gov. Mike Kehoe.

3 days ago | missourinet.com | Marshall Griffin

Missouri’s Ed Martin still has a place in the Trump Administration after his nomination for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia was pulled. President Trump has now picked the former Missouri politician to lead the newly-created Weaponization Working Group within the U.S. Justice Department. A document from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the group will investigate incidents of Justice Department employee engaging in so-called “political” prosecutions during the Biden Administration.

6 days ago | missourinet.com | Marshall Griffin

A Missouri Senate committee is weighing legislation that would regulate video gambling machines. The unlicensed machines can be found in convenience stores, truck stops, American Legion and VFW halls, bars, and other locations throughout the state. Troy Stremming, a lobbyist for J&J Gaming, testified in favor of the bill Thursday before the Senate Appropriations Committee.

6 days ago | missourinet.com | Alisa Nelson

Missouri is on the verge of adding more drop-off incubators for parents to anonymously give up their newborns. The state legislature has passed a bill that would create a state matching fund to put more of these temperature-controlled cradles at designated drop-off sites, such as Missouri fire stations. Rep. Jim Murphy, R-St. Louis County, is the bill sponsor. “It is a pro-life, pro-woman, pro-child bill,” Murphy said during final bill passage Wednesday night.

1 week ago | missourinet.com | Marshall Griffin

The Missouri Senate has passed a wide-ranging K-12 public school bill. The legislation includes a ban on students using cellphones throughout the entire length of the school day, including both class time and lunch breaks. The sponsor, State Sen. Mike Henderson, R-Desloge, said each school district would be responsible for crafting its own cellphone policy. “We say in that bill…they have to have a policy prohibiting and using it from bell to bell,” Henderson said.