Two Missouri teachers are suing top state officials over a plan to inject $50 million in taxpayer funds into the state’s ...

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Four local leaders who voted in favor of President Donald Trump's large tax bill shared their thoughts after the Senate's narrow approval. Missouri Sens. Eric Schmitt and Josh Hawley both voted to ...

Courtney Leader has been closely following the contentious tax-and-spending debate in Washington – not that she cares much ...

Two U.S. Senators want to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, and the plan is inspired by a Missouri workers' ...

Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), two key holdouts, said Saturday that they will vote to advance the Senate’s version of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” ...

The Missouri Hospital Association strongly opposed a plan to cap medical provider taxes at 3.5 percent. The tax helps ...

President Trump expresses uncertainty about Sen. Josh Hawley's bipartisan proposal to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to ...

The GOP tax bill advancing through Congress does not include key proposals championed by JD Vance, including a $5,000 child ...

Without changes to the GOP's "big, beautiful bill," Sen. Josh Hawley fears "there’s going to be a lot of rural hospitals in ...

House Speaker Jon Patterson, a Lee’s Summit Republican, on Monday formed the Special Interim Committee on Property Tax Reform ...

In Springfield and elsewhere in the state, vacant license offices force residents to travel — before waiting in line — to ...