Missouri

Housing market sales reach an unexpected 16% increase despite COVID-19 regulations

During the month of March sales were declining rapidly for home market sales, yet new numbers reported from the Census Bureau saw growth and will predictably continue for the following month. Just before numbers were released showing new sales, the… more

Developers of luxury hotel attempt for supermajority vote in city council

After an unsuccessful attempt to approve development from the City Council last year in 2019, a five-star luxury hotel by the Kauffman Center hopes to win supermajority in efforts to build a $63 million dollar establishment. While the hotel would… more

Coping with COVID: Missouri’s rural southwest shows big spike in new cases

A recent spike in Missouri’s COVID-19 cases over the last few days show that reportedly half of the new cases from over the weekend have come from McDonald County, a rural county in Missouri’s southwestern corner, according to Fox 4… more

Missouri asked to redirect funding in schools by ACLU

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… more

MU tuition increase

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… more

UMKC School of Medicine plans expansion to St. Joseph in partnership with Mosiac

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… more

Not So Fast for KCPD “Home Rule” by Jack Cashill

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… more

Increase in U.S. job hiring still shows high unemployment rate

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… more

Coping with COVID: Quarantine fatigue could be the cause in rise of new cases

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… more

Second PPP loan possible with new bill proposal

Businesses with fewer than 100 employees may be able to draw once again from the Paycheck Protection Program, according to a report from Fox Business. On June 18, the Prioritized Paycheck Protection Program Act was introduced by Sens. Ben Cardin,… more