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Updated 12:27 p.m. May 5 with House veto override - The same day that Gov. Jay Nixon, D-Mo. vetoed a measure that would have changed the way school…
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A group of Missouri lawmakers is considering an overhaul of how the state’s colleges and universities are funded each year.A first draft of…
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It was 45 years ago today that President Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 into law. The law established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and eventually the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio It charged the CPB with encouraging and facilitating program diversity and the expansion and development of non-commercial broadcasting.
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With this exciting gift from Monsanto Company, the $12 million campaign for a new home for the station is now just $2.6 million from completion. As exciting and important as this announcement is for us at the station, it also resulted in some questions from a few listeners worried that a gift of this size from a company that we frequently report on might adversely influence our editorial decision-making.
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The Missouri Senate is wrestling with legislation that would tweak the state’s public school funding formula.The bill is pitting rural and suburban…
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The Spring Campaign will mark the final on-air drive from our current studios in Lucas Hall on the University of Missouri – St. Louis campus. We’re moving this summer to a new facility that we will share with UMSL in the Grand Center arts & entertainment district in midtown St. Louis.
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Mo. Senator seeks to transfer funding to U.S. road repairMissouri Senator Claire McCaskill says she will try to amend a transportation bill to strip…
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Legislation is on a fast track in the Missouri Senate to bring the state into compliance with federal standards for commercial truckers and drunken…
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Mo. lawmakers to consider changes to school funding formulaLegislative leaders say addressing Missouri's school funding formula is one of their top…
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On Saturday, the President signed into law the consolidated fiscal year (FY) 2012 appropriations bill, which provides funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). For listeners and friends of St. Louis Public Radio, this is very good news because it means that Congress has provided important two-year advance funding for public radio and television totaling $445 million for Fiscal Year 2014.