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News from February 2023

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Breaking Resolutions Bash on February 16

By Press release submission | Feb 16, 2023

Having trouble sticking to your New Year's Resolutions?

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Missouri S&T among top 10 public universities for economic success of graduates

By Press release submission | Feb 16, 2023

Missouri S&T ranks among the nation’s top universities for graduates’ economic success, according to the latest rankings from the college guide website DegreeChoices.

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Platte News area weekly mass times

By Platte News | Feb 11, 2023

The following parishes in the Platte News coverage area hold weekly mass at these designated times.

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Film tax credits get hearings in both chambers

By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023

Several bills that would revive incentives to encourage film and other motion media production in Missouri received hearings in the Senate and House this week.

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Missouri Chamber Supports Crime Bill In Missouri House

By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023

In a recent survey of businesses leaders commissioned by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, many said that crime is an economic issue that must be addressed.

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Making Black History, Building Black Futures

By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023

As we honor leaders in Black history this month, the battles they lead for civil rights may seem like relics of a past era.

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Missouri Chamber Testifies In Favor Of Training Fund Bill

By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023

A bill that the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry has deemed “critical to give employers more tools to build and retain a skilled workforce” recently had its first hearing before a House committee at the Capitol in Jefferson City.

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How the ACLU Tracks Anti-LGBTQ Bills, and How We’re Fighting Back

By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023

Since 2015, political attacks against LGBTQ people have grown exponentially in state legislatures across the country.

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Missouri Chamber Opposes New Mandate On Financial Institutions

By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023

The Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry is opposing an additional regulatory burden that some lawmakers are looking to place on the state’s financial institutions.

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Chairman Graves introduces legislation to reverse Biden WOTUS rule

By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) led 152 of his House colleagues today in introducing a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) on the Biden Administration’s flawed and burdensome “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule.

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Legislative Update: Legislative floor debate begins in earnest

By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023

Both chambers of the General Assembly reconvened on Monday, January 30, 2023.

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Business community's top legal reform priority clears Senate committee

By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023

Chairman Tony Luetkemeyer today reported SB 117, his bill containing the business community's top legal reform priority: reduction in the statute of limitations for civil cases.

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Supreme Court of Missouri order: Fee schedule - Missouri Board of Law Examiners

By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023

Order Dated Feb. 1, 2023 Re: Fee schedule - Missouri Board of Law ExaminersEffective Date: Sept. 1, 2023

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Platte News area weekly mass times

By Platte News | Feb 4, 2023

The following parishes in the Platte News coverage area hold weekly mass at these designated times.

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The Best Decision: How Abortion Changed These Lives for the Better

By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023

For the first time in nearly 50 years, state legislatures will go into session this year without the guardrails of the landmark Roe v. Wade precedent protecting abortion rights.

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Governor Parson signs Executive Order 23-01 establishing a master plan on aging

By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023

January 19, 2023 - Today, Governor Mike Parson signed Executive Order 23-01 to establish a Master Plan on Aging to help reduce age and disability discrimination, eliminate barriers to safe and healthy aging, and help Missourians to age with dignity.

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The Intertwined Future of Attacks on Abortion and Gender-Affirming

By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023

Arli Christian, Campaign Strategist, National Political Advocacy Department, ACLU

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Governor Parson delivers 2023 State of the State Address: 'Not Done Yet'

By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023

January 19, 2023 - Yesterday, Governor Mike Parson delivered the 2023 State of the State Address to the Missouri General Assembly.

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How the Arizona Attorney General Created a Secretive, Illegal

By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023

Fikayo Walter-Johnson, Former Paralegal, ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology ProjectNathan Freed Wessler, Deputy Director, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project

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AIM supports reasonable statute of limitations for lawsuits against businesses

By Press release submission | Feb 1, 2023

January 23, 2023 - AIM president and CEO Ray McCarty testified in support of SB 117, sponsored by Sen. Tony Luetkemeyer, that would reduce the time allowed to bring a lawsuit from the current five years to two years.