Missouri Independent
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Missouri can keep using disputed federal database to review voter eligibility (opens the original)
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Missouri can continue using a federal database to review voter eligibility after the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily cleared the way for states to use an expanded version of the system to check the citizenship status of registered voters. The court’s 6-3 emergency order on Friday stayed a federal judge’s ruling that had blocked the expanded use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, database. The lower court had found that the federal government’s changes to the system vi
Private donors are funding Missouri education board’s commissioner search, strategic plan (opens the original)
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Private philanthropy will fund two major initiatives underway at the Missouri State Board of Education, but the identities of the donors remain unknown to the public, the state education department and at least one of the contractors doing the work. Earlier this month, the board approved two memorandums of understanding with consultants helping search for a new education commissioner and craft a new strategic plan. Both documents note that the work will be funded through philanthropic contributi
Missouri Republicans scramble to launch late campaigns on two ballot measures (opens the original)
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Missouri Republicans are scrambling to organize late campaigns on ballot measures they spent most of the year trying to block from the Nov. 3 election. The party’s State Committee met Saturday in Columbia and passed resolutions asking for a “yes” vote on Proposition A, a referendum on the 2025 redistricting map, and a “no” vote on Amendment 6, which would restrict the ability of lawmakers to change measures enacted by initiative petition. Party leaders told the committee they would work this wee
Missouri congressman urged leniency for Ponzi schemer who hired longtime consultant (opens the original)
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Weeks before a federal judge in St. Louis sentenced Siddharth Jawahar to 11 years in prison for running a $35 million Ponzi scheme, he hired a prominent Missouri political consulting firm to help generate favorable publicity and support for a lighter sentence. Jawahar’s $10,000 agreement with Axiom Strategies – obtained by federal prosecutors and later filed with the court – called for the firm to help secure favorable media coverage and letters of support. Prosecutors this week said the arrange
Missouri education board declines to seek $300 million increase in school aid (opens the original)
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The Missouri State Board of Education declined Tuesday to seek the roughly $300 million increase needed to fully fund the state’s public school funding formula next year, opting instead to request lawmakers allocate the same amount schools are receiving this year. The decision came after board members deadlocked over the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s proposed budget and whether the state should request money officials acknowledge lawmakers are unlikely to provide. After the
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