WASHINGTON (AP) – Political activists are looking to state ballot questions to move beyond “Obamacare” and refocus the nation’s long-running debate over government’s role in health care. California voters will decide this fall whether to limit what drug companies can charge many state programs. Coloradans will vote on a state version of a “single-payer” government-run…
Health officials say there have been no reported cases of Zika virus disease transmitted by mosquitoes in Texas
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s secretary of state will announce whether voters can weigh in on cigarette taxes and campaign contribution limits. The office faces a Tuesday deadline to determine whether those initiatives and others received enough signatures to get on the Nov. 8 ballot. One proposed constitutional amendment would cap campaign donations at…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The State Historical Society of Missouri has revealed conceptual drawings of a planned $35 million research center and museum. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the three-story Center for Missouri Studies will house museum galleries on the first floor and collections of manuscripts and newspapers set aside for researchers on the…
The closed Union station in downtown St. Louis will soon be getting a huge makeover. The St. Louis Post dispatch reports that a developer is planning on spending $45 million to turn the failed mall into an aquarium. Officials with ‘Lodging Hospitality Management’, owner of the downtown landmark, say construction will hopefully begin this fall…
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – A new fire station is set to open next month on the Edwardsville campus of Southern Illinois University. Edwardsville Fire Chief Rick Welle tells the Belleville News-Democrat the facility is framed and construction is nearly complete. The $3.8 million fire station will serve the campus and the city’s growing west side.…
CHICAGO (AP) – A federal judge is set to decide whether to cut the 14-year prison term given to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich after an appellate court threw out several of his corruption convictions. A resentencing hearing is scheduled Tuesday in Chicago federal court. The 59-year-old Democrat will appear on a courtroom screen at…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City, Kansas, police say a 10-year-old boy who was killed while riding the world’s tallest water slide died of a neck injury. Police say Caleb Schwab was one of three passengers riding in a boat Sunday on the Verruckt water slide at Schlitterbahn Waterpark. According to a police statement,…
