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Your guide to voting by mail due to COVID-19 risks

Your guide to voting by mail due to COVID-19 risks

By Madison Czopek, Missouri Information Corps July 1, 2020

Any registered voter in Missouri will be able to cast a vote by mail in the upcoming August and November elections, thanks to legislation Gov. Mike Parson signed June 4. The new law makes it easier...

A lawsuit argued that only state health director Dr. Randall Williams, seen here last week with Gov. Mike Parson, had the power to shut down businesses in Missouri.

Unclear federal guidance stalls pandemic relief spending in Missouri

By Madison McVan and Claire Colby, Missouri Information Corps June 23, 2020

More than $2 billion in coronavirus response money is floating around Missouri, but it’s currently unclear how and when officials will spend it all. The federal government sent $2.38 billion to Missouri...

The Missouri State Capitol building in Jefferson City.

Missouri expands absentee, mail-in voting during coronavirus pandemic

June 6, 2020

For the first time, registered voters in Missouri will be able to request a mail-in ballot for 2020 elections after legislation responding to the coronavirus pandemic was signed into law by Gov. Mike Parson...

Gov. Mike Parson gets his flu shot in October 2019.

Parson moves up Medicaid expansion vote to August from November election

May 27, 2020

Voters will weigh a citizen-led ballot measure on Medicaid expansion in August, after Gov. Mike Parson moved it up from the November election. During Parson’s COVID-19 briefing Tuesday, the governor...

A screenshot from a video posted on Twitter of the parties at Lake of the Ozarks.

In outrage over Lake of the Ozarks parties, St. Louis County and state ask revelers to quarantine

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor May 26, 2020

St. Louis County and the states of Missouri and Kansas have issued travel advisories and quarantine requests for anyone who traveled to the Lake of the Ozarks over Memorial Day weekend and did not socially...

Citizens vote at the Sunset Hills Community Center April 2, 2019.

Bill would allow some with COVID-19 concerns to vote absentee

By Seth Bodine, Missouri News Network May 10, 2020

A bill endorsed by a Missouri House committee last week would let Missouri residents vote absentee if they are at risk of contracting or transmitting COVID-19 and the governor has declared a state of emergency. The...

A lawsuit argued that only state health director Dr. Randall Williams, seen here last week with Gov. Mike Parson, had the power to shut down businesses in Missouri.

No additional state measures for Missouri employees who feel unsafe returning to work

By Ian McManus, Missouri News Network May 9, 2020

Gov. Mike Parson said last week that the state will leave safety oversight to individual businesses as they are allowed to reopen. Parson said during a news conference that the state would in many ways...

Christine Smith, left, a vice president at Pfizer, details the production and trials that will be happening at Pfizers Chesterfield, Missouri facility, alongside Missouri Gov. Mike Parson.

St. Louis County is home to COVID-19 vaccine development

By Claire Colby, Missouri News Network May 9, 2020

A Pfizer facility in Chesterfield is working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. “In a short order of time, we worked closely with regulatory authorities and accelerated what typically would have taken months...

Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine is being produced and tested in St. Louis County lab

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is being produced and tested in St. Louis County lab

May 7, 2020

Pfizer is ramping up production in hopes of producing a vaccine for the coronavirus within months, the company announced this week. And the vaccine will be produced and tested in St. Louis County. During...

Gov. Mike Parson gets his flu shot in October 2019.

Large state office buildings reopen today

By Ashlyn O'Hara, Missouri News Network May 4, 2020

Some major state office buildings reopened to the public Monday under the first phase of Gov. Mike Parson’s “Show me Strong Recovery” Plan, said Sarah Steelman, commissioner of the Missouri Office...

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