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• Missouri governor gets most of his agenda 05/18/2019
  by David A. Lieb, AP JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson laid out a relatively simple agenda when he began his first legislative session as the state’s chief executive. Infrastructure and workforce development, he called it in his State of the State speech. When the session ended Friday, Parson had pretty much […]
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• Missouri offers truce to Kansas in business incentive battle 05/18/2019
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are renewing a truce offer with Kansas in a long-running battle over businesses in the Kansas City area. Legislation given final approval Friday would prohibit Missouri tax incentives from being used to lure businesses from the Kansas side of Kansas City to move across the state line. But […]
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• Missouri lawmakers act to loosen helmets, safety inspections 05/18/2019
  by David A. Lieb, AP JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers voted Friday to relax a pair of roadway safety protections — repealing a helmet requirement for adult motorcyclists and abolishing inspections for about a million middle-aged vehicles. Critics warned that the legislation could lead to more deaths and serious injuries in vehicle crashes […]
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• Missouri voters to decide on term limits for state officials 05/18/2019
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters will get a chance to decide whether to impose term limits on all of the state’s top executive officials. Lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a proposed constitutional amendment that would limit the lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor and attorney general to being elected to two, four-year […]
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• Missouri Democratic lawmakers slam abortion bill 05/18/2019
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Democratic lawmakers are slamming a bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. House Minority Leader Crystal Quade says there’s no liberty in Missouri when government strips women of control of their own bodies. She says it’s “shameful” and “scary” that there are no exceptions for rape or […]
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