(KTRS) – Governor Bruce Rauner hopes that a new group will streamline the government’s response issues surrounding young people across Illinois. The governor signed an order creating the Governor’s Cabinet on Children and Youth. Rauner says the group will work to coordinate all state entities that deal with children. The State Secretary of Education applauds…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri senators have stripped a one-year ban on lobbying from a bill that’s part of an effort to repair public trust in government. Senators approved the change 18-14 Thursday. The Senate version of the bill originally would have required elected officials to wait one year after their terms expire before…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri House has passed legislation requiring public employees’ annual, written permission for unions to withhold dues from their paychecks. Lawmakers passed the bill Thursday by a vote of 110-47. That’s significant because it exceeded the 109 votes that would be necessary to override a gubernatorial veto. The bill now…
(KTRS) – Missouri lawmakers are renewing calls for the University of Missouri to fire assistant professor Melissa Click. The Post-Dispatch reports that Senator Kurt Schaefer said a recent video showing Click confronting officers, demonstrates that she is “unstable”. He continued, saying that the university has more than enough reason to fire her. As far as…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Bill Cosby is demanding that the accuser in his Pennsylvania criminal case repay a confidential sex-abuse settlement because she cooperated with police who reopened the case last year. The actor’s breach-of-contract lawsuit says the 2006 settlement bars Andrea Constand from “voluntarily” discussing the case with law enforcement. The lawsuit says she had…
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says his upcoming visit to Cuba will advance U.S. efforts to restore ties with the communist nation and improve the lives of Cubans. Obama will be making the first trip to Cuba by a sitting president in more than half a century. He says on Twitter there’s already been…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Asked about Donald Trump’s views on immigration, Pope Francis says anyone who wants to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border isn’t Christian. Trump has promised to build a wall along the Mexican border from Texas to California and expel 11 million people who are in the country illegally if elected president.…
