missouri

As pandemic funding fades, Missouri child care providers wonder what’s next

By Gabrielle Hays

Along with helping child care facilities stay open, American Rescue Plan funds helped many providers increase wages for child care workers, who have long been among the country’s lowest-paid workers.

Missouri appeals court rules against ballot summary language that described ‘dangerous’ abortions

By Summer Ballentine, Associated Press

The Western District Court of Appeals on Tuesday largely upheld descriptions of the constitutional amendments that were rewritten by a lower court judge to be more impartial.

How Missouri doctors are meeting a post-Roe demand for vasectomies

By Gabrielle Hays

There was a 35 percent jump in consultation requests and a more than 22 percent increase in actual vasectomy consultations after the Dobbs decision, according to the national study released in February.

Supreme Court keeps a Missouri law on hold that bars police from enforcing federal gun laws

By Associated Press

The 2019 law was ruled unconstitutional by a district judge but allowed to remain in effect. A federal appeals court then blocked enforcement while the state appeals the district court ruling.

With new newspaper and new businesses, Afghan refugees finding new community in Missouri

By Gabrielle Hays

While more than 1.6 million Afghans have fled the country since 2021, the total number in neighboring countries is 8.2 million, underscoring the humanitarian crisis for one of the largest displaced groups in the world. Some now call St. Louis…

Judge denies request to halt Missouri’s gender-affirming medical care ban

By Gabrielle Hays

The new law in Missouri prohibits health care providers from prescribing or administering hormones or puberty-blockers to patients under 18 unless they were already receiving said treatment prior to Aug. 28.

Texas ban on gender-affirming care for trans children blocked, Missouri ban allowed to take effect

By Summer Ballentine, Jim Vertuno, Associated Press

Friday's opposite outcomes underscore the mixed verdict in courtrooms across the U.S. this year over a historic wave of restrictions aimed at transgender youth.

Some Republican officials are trying to keep abortion off of state ballots. Here’s how

By Grace Panetta, The 19th

Ohio Republicans added back a previously canceled August special election to make it harder to amend the state constitution ahead of a November vote on abortion rights.

In St. Louis, a neighborhood destroyed, and the children who remember

By Gabrielle Hays

Urban renewal forced nearly 20,000 residents, many Black, out of Mill Creek Valley starting in the late 1950s. The people who lived there want to make sure the community doesn’t forget.

A year after catastrophic flash flooding, recovery for many Missourians is just beginning

By Gabrielle Hays

The historic weather event that hit St. Louis during the early hours of July 26, 2022, was, as the National Weather Service noted, the “most prolific” rainfall the area has seen since record-keeping began in 1874.