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A Missouri man who should have been eligible for release in 2024 remains in prison because the state miscalculated his credit for time he had already served, the Missouri Western District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. #moleg #mogov

Proposition A will determine whether a map designed to give Republicans another U.S. House seat in Missouri takes effect in 2028. #moleg #mogov

Mike Kehoe keeps saying he’s running again. Why does everyone keep asking? #moleg #mogov

Missouri’s Children’s Division is overwhelmed. Are kids safe? #moleg #mogov

Workers said they are increasingly cutting their safety assessments short as they scramble to reach children within statutory timeframes. Their caseloads are rising as they postpone tasks needed to close outstanding cases and inherit cases from colleagues who quit. #moleg #mogov

Missouri’s Amendment 3 would allow some abortions. Whether women could get them is unclear. #moleg #mogov

Stacey Preis steps down after four months as speculation grows about Senate President Pro Tem Cindy O’Laughlin becoming the next commissioner. #moleg #mogov

A state study found no need for more marijuana licenses, but researchers lacked the ownership data needed to fully assess competition. #moleg #mogov

Six years of holding Missouri's powerful accountable. A growing newsroom, a bigger reach — and none of it happens without you. #moleg #mogov

Democrats have gained ground statewide, but only one of Missouri’s eight U.S. House races has attracted significant campaign spending. #moleg #mogov

What do the MyPillow guy, a fight over gun laws in Illinois and Missouri’s county sheriffs have in common? Quite a bit, as it turns out. #moleg #mogov

Formed in September and led by longtime Republican operatives, the group has become Amendment 3’s largest donor without having to disclose where its money comes from. #moleg #mogov

Backed by advocates who see sheriffs as a check on government overreach, the proposal would limit who can seek to remove them from office. #moleg #mogov

Republicans are defending narrowly won suburban seats as Democrats look for signs of an opening in rural Missouri. #moleg #mogov

Amendment 6 would make citizen initiatives extraordinarily difficult for Missouri lawmakers to change and would restrict their ability to rewrite the initiative process itself. #moleg #mogov

Amendment 7 would ask the state to invest money for generations in hopes of one day eliminating state taxes. #moleg #mogov

The former attorney general is railing against Jefferson City insiders. The problem is, they helped build his career. #moleg #mogov

On this episode of Missouri on the Record, Jason Hancock talks with Richard von Glahn, executive director of People Not Politicians, about Proposition A and the fight over Missouri’s 2025 congressional map. #moleg #mogov

Republican Scott Fitzpatrick emphasizes the office’s watchdog role, while Democrat Quentin Wilson wants auditors to take a more proactive approach. #moleg #mogov

Democrats hope to flip a Springfield Senate seat for the first time in more than 80 years as two state representatives vie to replace Republican Lincoln Hough. #moleg #mogov

In one of the state’s few competitive Missouri Senate races, the candidates draw contrasts over public schools, taxes and abortion. #moleg #mogov

Senate Democrats demand apology after Eric Schmitt’s false accusations against Jack Smith #moleg #mogov

Jamie Reed, the former social worker at a St. Louis transgender clinic, made the case for Amendment 3 last month before a room full of Republicans in St. Louis County. “If we talk to people about the trans part of this amendment,” she said, “we can get it to pass.” #moleg #mogov

A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court seeks $550 million to address what it alleges are decades of underfunding at Missouri’s historically Black land-grant university. #moleg #mogov

As members tried to define what makes a child safe or unsafe, two longstanding problems kept intruding on the discussion: a workforce struggling with high turnover and caseloads, and gaps in services designed to keep families safely together. #moleg #mogov

On this week's episode of Missouri on the Record, Jason Hancock talks with Missouri Independent Deputy Editor Rudi Keller about how the redistricting fight spiraled into contempt proceedings, dueling state and federal court rulings and confusion for local election officials. #moleg #mogov

Missouri will not use optional federal exemptions designed to help low-income people keep Medicaid coverage when they are hospitalized, travel for medical care or live in areas affected by disasters or high unemployment. #moleg #mogov

Incredibly excited that The Missouri Independent will be partnering with ProPublica as part of its Local Reporting Network. I am especially excited because it means Luke Nozicka will be joining our team. #moleg #mogov

Thirteen donors flagged in federal letters appear nearly 5,700 times in the Missouri senator’s reports, highlighting questions about recurring online contributions. #moleg #mogov

As Missouri prepares to vote on whether to reinstate an abortion ban, a new information campaign by a local nonprofit is setting out to remind Missourians that regardless of what happens in November, some abortion options will remain available. #moleg #mogov

While the Department of Social Services says the change is aimed at lowering payment error rates, advocates say it could actually increase errors and cause eligible Missourians to lose benefits. #moleg #mogov

Secretary of State Denny Hoskins has sent letters to about 1,000 registered voters notifying them that they’ve been flagged as potentially being noncitizens. #moleg #mogov

Eric Schmitt’s Hawks-Hawkeyes blunder and the politician he’s become #moleg #mogov

On Monday, Eric Schmitt helped pass a bipartisan college sports bill. On Tuesday, he mixed up the Atlanta Hawks and Iowa Hawkeyes, used the bad information to accuse Jack Smith of perjury and called him a “dirtbag.” #moleg #mogov

Missouri’s Eric Schmitt bungles accusation against former special counsel Jack Smith in heated hearing #moleg #mogov

A Cole County Circuit Court judge will decide whether to strike down a 2024 law allowing charter schools in Boone County, a case that could further define Missouri’s constitutional ban on special laws. #moleg #mogov

Missouri Republicans are scrambling to organize late campaigns on ballot measures they spent most of the year trying to block from the Nov. 3 election. #moleg #mogov

Private philanthropy will fund two major initiatives underway at the Missouri State Board of Education, but the identities of the donors remain unknown to the public, the state education department and at least one of the contractors doing the work. #moleg #mogov

Denny Hoskins’ terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month #moleg #mogov

On the this week’s episode of Missouri on the Record, Anna Spoerre explains why some abortion opponents are fighting Amendment 3, and how transgender healthcare became part of the debate. #moleg #mogov

Some conservatives argue the abortion restrictions don’t go far enough, a split that could matter in a race recent polling shows is essentially tied. #moleg #mogov

Reporters Clara Bates and Anna Spoerre were awarded the A-Mark Prize for Investigative Journalism on Saturday by the Missouri Press Association for their reporting on problems in the state’s foster care. #moleg #mogov

The decision ends, for this election at least, Republicans’ effort to use a gerrymandered map to improve their chances of winning a seventh Missouri seat in the U.S. House. #moleg #mogov

Breaking: The U.S. Supreme Court rules Missouri's 2022 map will be in effect during the general election, blocking use of the gerrymandered map drawn last year. story coming soon at missouriindependent.com. #moleg #mogov

The campaign to keep Missouri’s abortion rights amendment in place has so far out raised the campaign to reinstate a ban about 7 to 1, in part because of $5.3 million from the Fairness Project, a D.C.-based nonprofit that doesn’t have to disclose its donors. #moleg #mogov

A Kansas City plaintiff is among five Medicaid recipients and six medical organizations arguing a federal rule unlawfully narrows exemptions for adults with serious medical conditions. #moleg #mogov

A vast and growing network of artificial intelligence-driven Flock cameras could violate constitutional privacy rights, U.S. senators on a Judiciary Committee subcommittee said during a Wednesday hearing. #moleg #mogov

The Missouri Supreme Court is weighing whether a 2022 law making it a crime for school employees to provide students with “explicit sexual material” violates constitutional free speech protections. #moleg #mogov

The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday challenging an appeals court’s decision in March directing the state to award cannabis company Hippos LLC 13 facility licenses after finding the 2019 application scoring process was inconsistent. #moleg #mogov

Backers of a Missouri redistricting referendum late on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene for a third time in three weeks in the fight over which congressional map must be used for the Nov. 3 elections. #moleg #mogov