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7 Teens Have Been Missing In Missouri Since June 2024
Bringing them home: for 40 years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has been helping to locate missing children. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a total of 15 children have been reported missing in the United States since July 1, 2024. It’s important to note that this number doesn’t account for the children who have gone missing in Missouri since June 2024.
Missouri’s Poverty Level – Are You Poor & Not Even Know It?
Wealth can be a subjective term. What is rich to one person might seem like a pittance to someone else. Do you actually know what Missouri's poverty level is? Do you know that you might be poor (by state standards) and not even know it?. I don't want to cross...
New Ranking Says Illinois Not Missouri a Best Off-the-Grid State
I consider this a major upset. For years, Missouri has been considered one of the best states to live off-the-grid. No more. A new ranking claims it's Illinois that's one of the best places to live away from civilization and no longer the Show Me State. This brand new off-the-grid...
Payment backlog leaves Missouri child care providers desperate, on the brink of closing
A series of changes to Missouri's child care subsidy program have created a major headache for day care providers, who say they've been forced to make difficult budget decisions as they wait on money owed to them by the state (Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent). This spring, the state of Missouri owed...
Missouri Gov. Parson to be in Kansas City for discussions about the Chiefs, Royals
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The future of the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals in the state of Missouri will be a topic of discussion Monday in a meeting between Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and local officials. Parson will be in Kansas City on July 8. Parson's office said in...
Major corporations, wealthy donors fuel growth of Missouri private school scholarship program
The largest donors to a tax credit program supporting private school tuition scholarships in Missouri are a Fortune 500 health care corporation, a cable company and the founding family of the Kansas City Chiefs. UnitedHealth Group Inc. has given the most since 2023 to the state’s K-12 tax-credit scholarship program, dubbed MOScholars, with a $2 […] The post Major corporations, wealthy donors fuel growth of Missouri private school scholarship program appeared first on Missouri Independent.
Josh Hawley Was An Early No-Fault Divorce Skeptic
Long before red-pilled streamers like Steven Crowder, Tim Pool, and Matt Walsh were agitating for an end to no-fault divorce laws, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) was urging conservatives to “reconsider” the wisdom of legal reforms that made it easier to dissolve a marriage. Just two years after the last state in the country adopted no-fault divorce, Hawley questioned the practice in an op-ed for National Affairs. Trump Angrily Demanded Mike Johnson Help Overturn Conviction: Report “Americans are in a disagreeable mood,” Hawley, then a plucky young lawyer with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, wrote in 2012. The problem, he concluded,...
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