Regional News
With the nation recording the highest case COVID-19 case counts since the pandemic began in March 2020, the Biden administration has directed private insurers to cover the cost of up to eight at-home coronavirus rapid tests per person, per month.…
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In a virtual meeting this week, Kansas City area hospitals said they would be making further moves to accommodate a jump in patient admissions. Hospitals in the Kansas City region, facing the largest outbreak of COVID-19 cases since the pandemic…
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A decision from the UM System Board of Curators has voted down campus mask mandates for students within the UM System. With the start of the new semester, universities such as MU recommend wearing masks indoors but will not require…
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Lawmakers in Missouri could approve a 5.5 percent raise for state employees as early as February. The raise request comes from Gov. Mike Parson. Approval of $91 million has been requested of the House Budget Committee for raises in 2022.…
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The rate of delinquencies in U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities increased in December, breaking a 17-month string of declines that began after the worst of the COVID-19 downturn took hold in early 2020. According to the commercial realty analytics firm Trepp,…
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Well, that didn’t take long: Just weeks after sealing a deal that made it the region’s second-largest wealth-planning firm, Creative Planning has started the new year with another significant acquisition. This time, it has added Berno Financial Management, a Cincinnati…
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The Internal Revenue Service has issued its 2022 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes. The agency issued a news release that said, effective this week,…
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Chief medical officers from the biggest hospitals in Kansas sounded a warning over the explosion of COVID-19 case numbers in the state on Wednesday. Even as they were speaking, it turns out, the proportion of hospital beds filled by those…
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Two measures have been approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The first allows increased access to additional doses of Pzifer’s COVID-19 vaccine, the second shortening the recommended interval of time between the initial dose and the booster.…
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Following a burst of high demand for COVID-19 testing, the Missouri Department of Health has issued a temporary halt on orders of at-home tests. With limited supplies nationwide, the call was made to prevent backup within the ordering system. The…
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