School boards throughout Missouri have had to make consequential decisions that sometimes were not popular around masking and remote schooling.

The community of 32,000, one of the only growing cities in the Metro East, is split between two congressional districts. Some say this drastically hurts its representation.

Don Kauerauf, who’s been Missouri’s health director since September, says he believes a portion of unvaccinated Missourians are still approachable and could be persuaded to get the shot. He also says vaccine hesitancy shouldn’t be vilified.

The south St. Louis County state representative also discussed a town hall meeting he had on car theft with county Prosecutor Wesley Bell.

Bush was one of six Democrats who voted against the federal infrastructure legislation, which President Joe Biden is expected to sign.

The Clay County Republican spoke on the large undertaking of spending billions of federal dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act, along with education issues he believes will be topics of discussion for the upcoming legislature.

A recently revealed vulnerability on a state-run website has revived conversations about cybersecurity and whether the state is doing enough to protect sensitive data.

The Richmond Heights Democrat also discussed how an exhibit on LGBTQ rights was moved out of the Missouri Capitol.

This week's episode features two guests on opposite sides of a Senate skirmish: Bob Onder, R-Lake Saint Louis, and Majority Leader Caleb Rowden, R-Columbia.

The lawmakers also discussed how bipartisanship can help cool tensions in an often-contentious legislative arena.

Power's new book examines the concept of deradicalization — and why bringing people away from extremism is more important than ever.

Missouri and Illinois are approaching redistricting differently, with Missouri delaying the bulk of the process until 2022 and Illinois creating maps before the census data was even released.