Missouri lawmakers ship Parson $2.8B to broaden Interstate 70
Missouri’s Interstate 70 shall be expanded to a few lanes in every course throughout the state as a part of a roughly $50 billion state price range authorised Friday by lawmakers.
Republican lawmakers took up GOP Gov. Mike Parson’s January name to pour cash into I-70 this 12 months, and so they went even additional than he initially requested.
The price range additionally prioritizes funding for pre-Okay and childcare, which influential enterprise teams have mentioned is required to provide dad and mom and guardians the flexibility to work and hopefully ease Missouri’s workforce scarcity.
Public Okay-12 colleges will get $3.6 billion in main funding, in addition to the minimal quantity required to supply busing to all college students. Public faculties and universities will get a 7% funding hike.
Medicaid growth for brand new mothers wins approval in Missouri
Decrease-income new moms might achieve a full 12 months of Medicaid health-care protection in Missouri below laws given remaining approval Friday as a part of a nationwide push to enhance maternal well being.
The laws, which now goes to Gov. Mike Parson, would add Missouri to a rising listing of Republican-led states which have beforehand balked at Medicaid expansions however which are actually becoming a member of Democratic states in offering 12 months of protection — as an alternative of the everyday 60 days — after girls give start.
USDA companions with Missouri to convey more healthy, native meals to colleges
Missouri has joined a program from the U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA) to convey more healthy, native meals to highschool meal packages throughout the state.
Greater than $1.2 million shall be allotted to Missouri below the Native Meals for Colleges Cooperative Settlement.
The Missouri Division of Elementary and Secondary Training (DESE) will buy and distribute native and regional meals and drinks for colleges that make the most of the Nationwide Faculty Lunch and Faculty Breakfast Applications, based on the USDA.
Columbia veteran receives free roof following 8 years of army service
Chris Waterfield served his nation for eight years, however his dedication to service did not finish there as he now helps disabled veterans on the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital get to their physician’s appointments. Now his Columbia neighborhood is giving again.
Waterfield gained a free roof from Fortified Roofing and Siding earlier this 12 months. Crews set to work on the mission Friday morning and say it is going to wrap up that very same day.
That is the second time the Columbia-based roofing firm organized this philanthropic occasion often known as the “Owens Corning Roof Growth Mission.” By their partnership with roofing materials producer Owens Corning and nonprofit Purple Coronary heart Properties, each the supplies and the labor for the mission are free.
Treeline Music Competition offers sneak peak at this 12 months’s headliners
Japanese Breakfast, Salt-N-Peppa and Robert Cray shall be headlining Treeline Music Competition this October. The three different headliners shall be introduced at a later date.
The pageant modified its title in February to mirror the group’s efforts to department out into totally different genres of music, Tracy Lane, co-owner and co-producer of Treeline Music Competition, advised the Missourian.
Based on a press launch, the brand new title pays tribute to Stephens Lake Park – the pageant’s location since 2013 – and American roots music.