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Medical marijuana firms lead donors for legal weed campaigns

Donors associated with companies holding medical marijuana licenses are providing most of the funding for ballot measures that would legalize recreational marijuana in several states

The Independent UK

'Just irresponsible': Gun violence a big issue in Missouri ahead of midterms

Ahead of the November 8 midterms, FRANCE 24 takes you on a tour down the Mississippi River with a series of reports by Fanny Allard. The third of five episodes brings us to Missouri, which has some of the weakest gun laws and one of the highest gun violence rates…

France 24

US elementary school tested for nuclear bomb waste from Manhattan Project

Report finds levels of the radioactive isotype lead-210 as much as 22 times the expected levels at Missouri school serving mostly Black students

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Fund proposed to help cover travel costs of families seeking abortions outside of Missouri

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr. on Tuesday proposed to release $1 million to help pay travel costs of those seeking abortions outside of Missouri, according to a news release.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Missouri lawmakers made sure teen gunman faced minimal obstacles to arm himself

The more detail that emerges about the assailant in last week’s St. Louis school shooting, the more clear it becomes that his deadly violence was, in real ways, abetted by Missouri’s Legislature. Conservative lawmakers have spent more than a decade preventing or assertively tearing down every legal safeguard that might…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri investigates hospital denial of emergency abortion

Missouri's health department is investigating whether a hospital violated federal rules in denying a woman an emergency abortion

The Independent UK

Missouri health department investigating hospital at center of abortion-related campaign ad

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is investigating a Joplin hospital where a woman said she was denied a medical abortion because of the state’s ban on the procedure, a situation that has gained a close focus in the race for U.S. Senate.

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Midterm: Which states put cannabis on the ballot in 2022?

The Independent UK

Marijuana Legalization Debate Heats Up In Missouri Ahead Of Midterms

With just one week before Missourians will go to the polls to weigh in on cannabis legalization, debates around its benefits and potential policy change are heating up.

Benzinga

Boston’s Jayson Tatum on Coach K pushing his buttons to motivate him

Tatum spoke on Coach K’s recruitment trip to his home in Missouri and a couple of times where the now-retired Hall of Fame head coach pushed some choice buttons to motivate the Celtics star.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Need a last minute costume idea? Candidates tell us which fictional character they’d be 🦸

Welcome to the Monday, October 31, Brew.

Ballotpedia

Voters in some of the most conservative states to weigh in on recreational pot

Voters in Missouri, Arkansas, North Dakota, South Dakota and Maryland will vote on legalizing recreational marijuana. Nineteen states and D.C. have approved adult cannabis possession and consumption.

WEKU

St. Louis school shooter failed a background check. Why didn't police take his gun?

ST. LOUIS — Police officers were called to the home of Orlando Harris on Oct. 15, nine days before he went on a shooting rampage inside a St. Louis high school. Harris’ mother had asked officers to remove the weapon, an AR-15 rifle, from her home, citing her son’s mental…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

‘I’m changing Congress’: how Cori Bush brought her lived experience to Capitol Hill

Member of ‘the Squad’ on how her abortion experience, sexual assault and front-line fight in Ferguson, Missouri, affected her politics

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Inside testing done, soil sampling begins at Missouri school

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it has completed testing inside a Missouri school closed amid concerns of radioactive contamination, and sampling of soil outside the school has begun

Tribune News Service

Missouri’s Eric Schmitt is not running for president. Staff error led to brief speculation

COLUMBIA, Mo. — No, Eric Schmitt isn’t running for president.

Benzinga

Biden's Pardon Benefits Arizona, Legalization In Kentucky & South Dakota, New Measures In Oregon

Arizona Would Be Most Benefit From President Biden's Pardons

Tribune News Service

What’s next for staffer unions on the Hill?

Staff for Rep. Cori Bush began voting to form a union Tuesday. The Missouri Democrat’s team is expected to become the fifth unionized office since a congressional organizing campaign launched publicly this year.

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The Independent UK

1 construction worker dies in bridge collapse in Missouri

Officials say one construction worker died and two others were injured when a bridge under construction collapsed in a rural area in northwest Missouri

The Independent UK

Branson's God and country tourism draws patriotic Christians

In Branson, Missouri, the holy trinity of faith, flag and family reign supreme

Reason

Undeterred by Pushback, Cops and Journalists Are Still Warning Parents About THC-Laced Halloween Candy

The unsubstantiated threat that strangers with cannabis candy allegedly pose to trick-or-treaters is an urban legend that never dies.

The Independent UK

Midterm: Which states put cannabis on the ballot in 2022?

Roll Call

Mississippi rebuilds health earmark empire in post-Cochran era - Roll Call

The state joined states such as New York, California and Missouri in nabbing more than $50 million in health-related earmarks in fiscal 2022.

The Independent UK

Biden suits get mixed results for Missouri Senate candidate

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed 25 lawsuits against President Joe Biden's administration in the past 20 months

WEKU

Why pediatricians are worried about the end of the federal COVID emergency

In the pandemic, the government allowed millions of children to stay on Medicaid — no need to have an adult re-enroll them every year. But that may end soon, and many kids could lose their coverage.

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