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.

Do Missouri newspapers need to brand? If so, what should that look like? At our company, we think branding is important and continually ask, “Are we doing a good job?” and “What can we improve?”

Fifty-two years ago, back in the days when common sense could actually be spoken in public and people would look at whatever was said using critical thinking, intelligence and without an extreme …

There are many places to find information these days. Most government entities have websites and social media pages, places where they can deliver information the public needs to know. My web browser’s toolbar is chock-full of them, from courts and law enforcement to weather and wrecks to name just a few.

On the Move MEXICO — Don Munsch has joined the Mexico Ledger as general manager and editor. The new position will help grow the newspaper’s print and online circulation, as well as be responsible for overseeing the newspaper’s office and directing news coverage.

Membership applications are considered by the MPA Board of Directors at its first meeting after a notice has been published in at least three issues of the MPA Bulletin, eBulletin and/or the Association’s magazine, Missouri Press News. The next meeting of the MPA Board is scheduled for June 6, 2025, in Hermann.

On the Move Joplin — Katherine Miller has been named publisher of The Joplin Globe. The appointment is somewhat of a homecoming for Miller, who is a native of Joplin and began her career …

Fred W. Lindecke, longtime political correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, died March 8, 2025. Lindecke received his journalism degree from Washington University, in the course of which …

Michael V. Conger, 76, son of the late Bethany Republican-Clipper publishers Vincent and Bedonna Conger, died on March 27, 2025, at a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona, of a lung disease.

Virginia Anne (Fairchild) Oehlschlager, 42, died March 27, 2025, at her home and surrounded by family.

With the Missouri legislative session in full swing through May 16, there’s still plenty of time to report on how your state representative or senator is representing your district.

After a dreary drive in the rain to Cape Girardeau on Jan. 30 for the Southeast Missouri Press Association’s Sales Boot Camp, I was quickly invigorated when I saw the passion the 30 attendees …

February is Black History Month and Missouri Press Foundation has multiple Newspaper in Education features you can use this month. Topics available to your newspaper include features on the …