Missouri News Network coverage this week focused on recapping the end of the legislative session.   TUESDAY Lawmakers weigh abortion restrictions and expansions after abortion … more

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Missouri News Network coverage this week included coverage of education and landlord bills and efforts to revive a state law restricting enforcement of federal gun laws. more

Missouri News Network coverage last week included coverage of Republican efforts to overturn reproductive rights, the state treasurer’s efforts to end investments in China-related companies, a bill that would open public school athletics and activities to homeschooled children and an explainer on the paid sick leave provisions that went into effect on Thursday. more

Here is the latest from the Missouri News Network capitol coverage. In addition to daily coverage, toward the bottom we have features on the number of driving while texting tickets written under the new rule, the potential impact of federal Medicaid funding cuts on the Missouri budget, and a story about possible health care options for farmers. more

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 rights again and a hearing on efforts to pass a new law protecting Second Amendment rights. more

Missouri News Network coverage this week includes coverage of Senate passage of a capital gains tax credit, new approaches to addressing the lack of child care facilities and another attempt in the House to roll back reproductive rights. more

Missouri News Network coverage this week includes stories on some emotional hearings on topics ranging from gender-shared spaces to pregnancy during divorce proceedings to proposed elimination of sunset provisions for several laws. The latest on proposed changes to initiative petitions and a look at Missouri’s film tax credits round out our coverage. more

With our students on break we had limited coverage this week. We have coverage on sheriffs’ salaries, proposals to post the 10 commandments in schools and efforts across the country, including Missouri, to limit cellphone use in public schools. more

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. more

Missouri News Network stories this week includes coverage of action on a number of important bills as the legislature prepared for it’s mid-session break. more

Missouri News Network stories coverage this week includes coverage of a continuing spat between the legislature and MoDOT, efforts to remove paid sick leave provisions adopted by voters in the fall, discussion on limiting SNAP benefits and a hearing on a House bill that would ban any state funding of DEI initiatives.  more

Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders aimed at increasing energy generation in the United States. But regulators and utilities in Missouri still don’t know what Trump’s “energy emergency” means for them. more

Missouri News Network stories coverage this week includes House approval of child care tax credits, Senate approval of sweeping changes to utility regulation and one senator’s effort to get his colleagues to allow video streaming of floor action. more

Missouri News Network stories coverage this week includes Gov. Mike Kehoe’s executive order barring state agencies from having DEI initiatives, a look at complaints from county coroners about low pay, hearings on bills seeking to limit drag shows and limit school bathroom use to the sex assigned at birth and House approval of a bill protecting pesticide maker Bayer from cancer lawsuits. more

In January, the federal government took over regulating Missouri’s more than 1.5 million miles of natural gas pipelines.  more

Missouri News Network this week includes coverage of topics that have been common in recent years at the Capitol: changing the initiative process, immigration crackdowns, gender and teaching of critical race theory. more

State lawmakers across the United States are considering bills that would deport millions of people who are in the country illegally. more

Missouri News Network coverage this week includes proposals to restrict abortion, a sunset provision off laws governing gender rights and  proposed exemptions to the new state minimum wage. more

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. … more