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The rule include prohibiting libraries from giving materials to minors without parental permission, and banning “age-inappropriate” displays from children’s areas. Libraries risk losing state funding if they don’t comply.
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Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick refused to acquiesce to a demand by Attorney General Andrew Bailey to increase the estimated cost of the proposed amendment.
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The Missouri lieutenant governor is running against Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and potentially Sen. Bill Eigel in the 2024 governor’s race.
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Missouri is one of a growing number of places where government funding is being deployed as the newest weapon in the fight over books. Beginning May 30, a new state rule could deny state funding to libraries over books deemed inappropriate for young readers — although it's not clear how it will be enforced.
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The appointees include a noted lawyer, a philanthropist and an orthodontist who would be the only member with a degree from a campus other than Columbia's.
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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s emergency rules are sparking nationwide alarm, as they're some of the first health care restrictions on transgender adults that advocates can recall.
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Some providers have said the rules are so onerous that the result will be access to hormone therapy and surgeries being shut off for everyone.
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The Republican candidate for governor wants to ban hormonal therapies and gender reassignment surgeries for minors but is opposed to prohibiting them for adults.
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Missouri’s GOP secretary of state will take on Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe and potentially state Sen. Bill Eigel and others in next year’s Republican gubernatorial primary.
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State Sen. Bill Eigel has launched the opening salvo of a likely contentious 2024 Republican gubernatorial primary.