Missouri Republicans spent two years trying to reinstate an abortion ban. They emerged from Tuesday’s election with fewer ways to do it — and no plans to stop trying. About 55% of voters rejected Amendment 3, preserving the constitutional right to abortion approved in 2024. Voters also approved Amendment 6, which sharply limits lawmakers’ power […]
Missouri Senate Republicans will return to Jefferson City in January with fewer seats, a flood of newcomers and new leaders who say they heard voters’ frustration Tuesday — even as they have yet to settle on what to do about it. Sen. Jason Bean, a Republican from Holcomb chosen Thursday to serve as Senate president […]
Amendment 6, which expands the initiative and referendum petition process, won handily late Tuesday night, according to complete, but unoffici…
Oversight has played an important role in American democracy. House Democrats – who are set to be the majority party in that chamber in 2027 – aim to use that power over the Trump administration.
A Republican-drawn congressional map designed to give the GOP another seat in the U.S. House was soundly rejected by Missouri voters Tuesday, rebuffing President Donald Trump’s effort to reshape the state’s political boundaries in his party’s favor. The defeat of Proposition A means Missouri will retain the congressional districts established in 2022, preserving a Kansas […]
Jefferson County superintendents are calling for community members to advocate for the state to fully fund public schools.
Republican Ed Callahan and Democrat David Rekosh are seeking the House District 112 seat in the Nov. 3 election.
Incumbent Republican Cecelie Williams of Dittmer is seeking a second two-year term representing District 111 in the Missouri House and is bein…
The first thing a person who’d never met Bill McKenna had to notice was the 200-watt smile and the Irish twinkle in his eyes.
Officials from eight Jefferson County cities are pushing back against a proposed bill in the Missouri state Senate that would create a county …