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The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri has written to several school districts throughout the state urging them to remove police officers from schools, according to reporting by the Associated Press. ACLU says money spent on school resource officers should…
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The Board of Curators for the University of Missouri system have approved a 2.3 percent tuition increase effective with the fall semester. While structured as an offset to the annual rate of inflation, though, that increase will fall considerably short…
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In a move designed to address a stubborn shortage of physicians in rural areas of the state, the University of Missouri-Kansas City has been given the green light to expand with a satellite campus in St. Joseph. Financed in large part…
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Kansas City is the only major city in the country whose police force is controlled by the state. There is a two-word answer to the question of why this is so. Those two words are “Tom Pendergast.” Elected to no…
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After a federally approved merger of T-Mobile and Sprint back in February, the former headquarters of Sprint has released more than 200 employees, just two short months after the merger was officially closed in April, according to the AP. A…
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In May, employers in 46 states added jobs following a promising addition of 2.5 million jobs in April nationwide, according to the AP. The surprisingly gain gave hope that the job market bottomed out in April, however recent numbers show…
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In Missouri stay-at-home orders have been lifted, with local exceptions throughout the state including in the Kansas City metro. Over the last several days, the state and surrounding Kansas City region has seen a growing number of new cases. State…
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After the decision to continue in-person classes for the fall semester, both the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Kansas has announced Thursday that they will be requiring students to wear face masks while indoors in class, according to…
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Thursday’s debate on the proposal to drop municipal charges against nonviolent protesters became lengthy as the City Council of Kansas City continued discussion following a hearing in front of the city’s Special Committee for Legal Review last week. The approved…
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The web site rt.live, which has tracked estimated rates of viral transmission by state since April, adjusted its model today, a change that currently ranks Missouri among the top 10 states for growth in the rate of COVID-19 spread. The…
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