The Latest Breaking News from Mary Elizabeth Coleman

Missouri would be only state in country that taxes food but not guns under GOP bill

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri would be the only state in the country that taxes food but does not tax gun sales under a bill being considered by the Missouri Senate.

Tribune News Service · Mar 8, 2023

Missouri Senate could be shifting further right this election. What policies could pass?

With a new crop of hard-right Republicans expected to join the Missouri Senate, some Democrats are worried that the upper chamber’s priorities will swing more to the right in the next legislative session.

Tribune News Service · Oct 11, 2022

Editorial: Missouri legislation previewed how far post-Roe radicals may be ready to go

One of the more shameful moments in congressional history was the passage in 1850 of the Fugitive Slave Act. It required that even slavery-free Northern states must abet that evil institution by returning enslaved people who’d escaped from the South and believed they had attained freedom. With the Supreme Court’s…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Jul 5, 2022

GOP lawmakers are pushing their anti-trans, anti-abortion laws across state lines

Bills recently introduced in Missouri and Idaho would make it a crime to travel to another state for essential health care.

Mic · Mar 9, 2022