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Attorney General Andrew Bailey, right, testifies to the House Budget Committee on Feb. 6, where he predicted his office would complete work on 2023 records requests by May Photo by Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent.

Missouri attorney general still working through 2023 Sunshine Law backlog

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
July 29, 2024
Already outlawed in Missouri, noncitizen voting ban will appear on statewide ballot

Already outlawed in Missouri, noncitizen voting ban will appear on statewide ballot

By Jason Hancock and Anna Spoerre
June 4, 2024
Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden, R-Columbia, speaks after adjournment Friday morning. He said changes to initiative petition could be passed if the House acts. Photo by Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent.

‘A bizarre session’: Missouri lawmakers head home after year defined by gridlock, infighting

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
May 17, 2024
Then Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman during her 2018 campaign for the Missouri House. Coleman was elected to the Missouri Senate in 2022.

Republican senator leaves Congressional race to run for Missouri secretary of state

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
April 2, 2024
Wesley Bell is sworn in as the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney by Judge George W. Draper III i January 2019, after defeating former Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch in an historic upset. Bell is the first Black prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County in its history.

St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell enters Missouri’s US Senate race

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
June 13, 2023
David Gregory, a state representative at the time, speaks to the Tesson Ferry Republican Club in summer 2018. Now a state senator, one of Koenig's sponsored pieces of legislation which would have reinstated the presidential primary ultimately stalled out in 2023's regular legislative session.

Push to reinstate Missouri presidential primary stalls in Senate

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
May 15, 2023
A St. Louis County electric vehicle

House approves bill aimed at blocking local EV charging station mandates

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
February 21, 2023
The Missouri State Capitol building in Jefferson City.

Missouri House gives initial approval to raising bar for voters to amend the constitution

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
February 7, 2023
Missouri legislators approve prescription drug monitoring program, goes to governor for signature

Missouri legislators approve prescription drug monitoring program, goes to governor for signature

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
May 11, 2021

Jay Ashcroft won’t seek GOP nomination for Missouri Senate seat

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
March 12, 2021
Republican Sen. Roy Blunt, announced his retirement March 8, and said that he would not seek re-election to his seat in 2022. Former State Sen. Scott Sifton, a Democrat, said earlier this year that he would be running for Blunt's seat next year, although it is unclear who his Republican challenger might be.

Blunt announcement that he won’t run again in 2022 will likely spark crowded GOP Senate primary

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
March 11, 2021
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson delivered his State of the State address on Jan. 27, 2021 (photo courtesy of Missouri Governor's Office).

Gov. Mike Parson accuses Missouri House GOP leaders of trying to embarrass him

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
February 3, 2021
Jim Lembke appears at a forum. Bill Milligan photo

Lembke tests positive for COVID-19; two more Missouri senators in quarantine

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
January 27, 2021
Then-Senate candidate and now Sen. Josh Hawley speaks at a campaign stop in , Missouri on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018. Hawley defeated incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill in November 2018, receiving 51.43 percent of the vote compared to McCaskill’s 45.47 percent. Photos by Erin Achenbach.

With rioting mob driven from Capitol, Congress certifies Biden win over Josh Hawley’s objections

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
January 9, 2021
Gov. Mike Parson tweeted this photo of himself without a mask speaking to a group of mostly maskless Republican senators in November 2020, including Sen. Andrew Koenig and Sen. Paul Wieland.

Trump should ‘absolutely not’ be blamed for U.S. Capitol riots, Gov. Parson says

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
January 9, 2021
The Missouri State Capitol building in Jefferson City.

Missouri lawmakers return to tackle Medicaid, education, budget amid COVID

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
January 6, 2021
Then a candidate for Senate, Sen. Josh Hawley speaks at a campaign stop in Ballwin in 2018. Hawley went on to defeat incumbent Claire McCaskill, a Democrat.

Josh Hawley vows to contest certification of Joe Biden’s victory

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
January 6, 2021
President Donald Trump is shown in July 2020 at his first White House coronavirus briefing in months.

Missouri voters choose Donald Trump over Joe Biden

By Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent
November 4, 2020
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