The gerrymandered congressional map pushed through the General Assembly by Republicans meets constitutional requirements for districts to be compact and contiguous, a Jackson County judge ruled Thursday. The decision from Circuit Judge Adam Caine is the third Missouri court ruling to reject a constitutional challenge to the plan intended to shift the 5th Congressional District […]

There is nothing promoters of legal video lottery games can say that will convince Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Cindy O’Laughlin that promised new revenue offsets the social damage of expanded gambling, she told The Independent last week. That opposition, she said, doesn’t mean Capitol hallway rumors that the Senate Select Committee on Gaming — […]