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Silver Dollar City Christmas Train Won’t End at Christmas in 2024
If you look forward to Christmas in Missouri, but don't look forward to it being over with, I have good news to share with you. The Silver Dollar City Christmas train won't be stopping at Christmas this year. I saw a curious tease by Silver Dollar City on their Facebook...
Missourians with disabilities and seniors could lose at-home care under new eligibility algorithm
Nearly 8,000 seniors and Missourians with disabilities could lose their at-home care over the next year after a new eligibility algorithm went into effect this week, a spokesperson for the state health department told The Independent.
Legislator wants action for people with disabilities being left behind
“If we don’t stand up for the people that need it the most in our state, then I don’t know what we’re doing,” Missouri State Sen. Brian Williams told FOX 2 following our September Fox Files report on our disability crisis.
APA of Missouri taking in cats, dogs from North Carolina following Hurricane Helene
ST. LOUIS — The Animal Protective Association (APA) of Missouri is stepping up to the plate by helping a North Carolina animal shelter devastated by Hurricane Helene. It comes as the death toll reaches nearly 200 people across the southeastern portion of the United States. Officials said the French...
Former caseworker testifies in defense of Missouri transgender health care ban
The former caseworker whose account of her time working at a pediatric gender clinic in St. Louis jumpstarted the legislative push to outlaw gender-affirming care for minors testified in defense of Missouri’s restriction on Monday. Jamie Reed, who for four and a half years worked as a case manager at the Washington University Transgender Center, […]
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