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Missouri House approves voter photo ID requirement
Two years after Missouri’s Supreme Courtroom struck down a related measure, lawmakers Thursday handed a invoice requiring residents to have photograph identification to forged a poll.
“We have already got a great system, we simply had to ensure it is at all times higher, as a result of Missourians need and need to know that their election system is reliable,” stated Rep. John Simmons, R-Washington, the invoice’s sponsor.
The requirement, half of a bigger elections invoice, handed the Home on a party-line 97-47 vote.
Along with requiring photograph ID, the invoice permits Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, a Republican, to assessment the record of registered voters in any jurisdiction. Digital voting machines will likely be banned after 2024, besides in circumstances the place a voter with a incapacity can not use a paper poll. These machines, nevertheless, could be required to have a paper path for a possible election assessment.
As well as, native election authorities can not settle for funding from outdoors organizations – language focused at Fb co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, who funded two nonprofits that handed cash alongside to county clerks and election boards in 2020. Zuckerberg informed the New York Instances in April that the grants have been a one-time effort to assist officers alter to conducting elections in a pandemic.
Missouri lawmakers additionally stripped all the state’s provisions that made it simpler for people to vote in the course of the early days of the pandemic.
Democrats have been in a position to safe a few of their election-related priorities, together with a two-week window for no-reason absentee voting. However they have been livid at their colleagues within the Senate for not doing extra to delay photograph ID.
“It is a shameful day,” stated Rep. Rasheen Aldridge, D-St. Louis. “Hopefully we finally have senators with a little bit bit extra integrity, that’s going to face up and battle.”
Senate Minority Ground Chief John Rizzo, D-Independence, stated that he revered the opinion of his fellow Democrats however that it was troublesome to battle what was a high precedence for the Republicans.
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“We didn’t vote for the invoice,” he stated. “We tried to do the very best we may with out getting one thing completely horrible shoved down our throat, which was an actual chance.”
Rep. LaKeySha Bosley, D-St. Louis, admonished her Republican colleagues for leaving the ground whereas Democrats spoke in opposition to the measure.
“We’re speaking about gutting elections, we’re speaking about democracy at its most interesting, the foundation of what our nation itself was purported to be constructed on, the precise basis, and this chamber is empty,” she stated.
Sexual assault survivors’ rights
The Home additionally handed a invoice offering survivors of sexual assault a collection of rights. The invoice, which largely offers with judicial proceedings, additionally accommodates provisions associated to baby intercourse trafficking and specific supplies supplied to college students.
Members of the Home voted 141-0 to move the invoice, which was the results of a convention committee between the Home and Senate. It now goes to Gov. Mike Parson, having handed the Senate on Tuesday by a equally bipartisan margin.
A earlier model of a sexual assault survivors invoice of rights was challenged by public defenders within the state, with the Missouri Supreme Courtroom agreeing a part of the legislation was unconstitutional.
Beneath the brand new laws, survivors of sexual assault could be legally entitled to quite a few protections, a bathe and a change of garments, a forensic examination and the proper to be free from intimidation, harassment or abuse in any following civil or prison proceedings.
As well as, legislation enforcement officers could be required to report situations of suspected baby trafficking to the state’s youngsters’s division. Figuring out data of sexual assault survivors, akin to e-mail addresses, would not be topic to open information requests. And people discovered to be partaking in prostitution wouldn’t face expenses as an grownup if the acts occurred once they have been below 18; they might as an alternative be thought of victims of abuse.
As so usually occurs on the finish of session, the measure expanded; provisions past the unique proposed protections of survivors have been added. That led to pushback from some senators, who tried to cease it from shifting ahead, saying it violated the state’s constitutional provision that payments should deal with one topic.
Sen. Holly Rehder, R-Sikeston, stated she discovered it hypocritical that different so-called omnibus measures weren’t focused by the delay tactic.
“For this invoice defending our girls, strengthening our legal guidelines in opposition to sexual abuse and violence. That is the one which we need to make the purpose on. I’ve subject with that. And I believe that the ladies on this state have subject with that as properly,” Rehder stated.
The underlying invoice, which contained the sexual assault survivors invoice of rights, had confronted hurdles earlier than when Sen. Rick Brattin, R-Harrisonville, a member of the Conservative Caucus, supplied an modification to the invoice that might have punished colleges that supplied obscene materials to college students {that a} “affordable particular person” would discover lacks “severe literary, inventive, political or scientific worth.”
Democrats known as it a “poison capsule,” saying it could have led to the banning of books which have worth however could also be thought of obscene.
Brattin’s preliminary refusal to again down from his modification, regardless of Rehder’s request to take action, led to an impromptu bipartisan information convention the subsequent morning in opposition to the Conservative Caucus, which usually accommodates seven senators out of the 34-member physique.
The measure despatched to Parson features a pared-down model of Brattin’s adjustments by creating the offense of offering specific sexual materials to a scholar, outlined primarily as visible depictions of sexual actions.
Training laws
Lawmakers additionally gave bipartisan approval to the session’s main training package deal.
“This invoice accommodates all the issues which are wanted for public training to maneuver ahead,” stated Rep. Paula Brown, D-Hazelwood, the rating minority member of the Home Training Committee. “The studying invoice is an absolute necessity for the youngsters in our colleges.”
The principle provision mandates that colleges use particular curriculum and screening to assist college students who’re struggling to learn at grade degree.
“Now we have persevering with experiences of kids who’ve studying issue,” stated Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin, R-Shelbina, who dealt with the measure within the Senate. “And what we discover occurring in some circumstances, not all, is the varsity will generally say, ‘Oh, properly, your scholar will catch up.’ However the scholar by no means catches up.”
Along with setting literacy curriculum, the invoice makes it simpler for 2 districts to share a superintendent to chop prices. And in an effort to deal with a substitute trainer scarcity, the laws creates a certificates for folks with a highschool diploma who need to be within the classroom. Retired lecturers may additionally function substitutes with out the time within the classroom affecting their pensions.
There are provisions supporting the psychological well being of scholars, together with a requirement that public colleges that print scholar identification playing cards even have playing cards with Suicide and Disaster Hotline data. The measure additionally created Holocaust Training Week, though language round Black and Native American historical past was eliminated.
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U.S. Open Qualifier Jadeon Carter (2025) Sends Verbal Commitment to Missouri
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Jadeon Carter from Lincoln, Nebraska, has made a verbal commitment to the University of Missouri for the 2025-26 school year and beyond.
“I chose Missouri because of the academic resources and the athletic resources they provide. The team culture makes it feel like home and all of the staff and swimmers are very supportive of me.”
Carter is a rising senior at Lincoln East High School. He swims year-round with Lincoln Select Swimming and is a Winter U.S. Open qualifier in the 200 backstroke. In high school swimming, he is the reigning Nebraska state champion in the 200 free (1:41.20) and 500 free (4:35.12). He holds school records in the 200 fre, 500 free, and 200 free relay, and he made the Academic All-Conference and Athletic All-Conference state teams.
In club swimming, Carter holds the Midwestern Swimming LSC record in the boys’ 13-14 500 free. This summer, he clocked a handful of LCM best times at Columbia Sectionals, placing 13th in the 200 free (1:58.08, PB), 13th in the 400 free (4:11.33), 7th in the 800 free (8:36.40), 16th in the 100 back (59.76 in prelims, PB), 6th in the 200 back (2:06.44, PB), and 12th in the 200 IM (2:12.90, PB). Two weeks later he competed at Midwestern Swimming Long Course Championships, where he won the 200/400/1500 free, 200 back, and 200 IM, and was runner-up in the 100 back. He picked up new times in the 100 free (55.39), 1500 free (16:47.07), and (50 back (29.33).
Best SCY times:
- 200 free – 1:41.20
- 500 free – 4:34.01
- 1000 free – 9:38.10
- 200 back – 1:50.43
- 100 back – 52.41
Carter will join the Tigers’ class of 2029 with fellow verbal commits Drew Ploof, Ben Madson, and Sebastian Gonzalez Barboza. Mizzou finished 8th out of 10 teams in the men’s meet at the 2024 SEC Championships.
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Missouri State football vs. Montana today: Live updates, highlights from Week 1 game
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Missouri State football: Ryan Beard previews Montana
Missouri State head football coach Ryan Beard held his weekly press conference ahead of Saturday’s opener at Montana.
Missouri State football season has arrived and an offseason of looking to the 2025 season and its impending move to Conference USA will be set aside for the Bears’ final season in the Missouri Valley Football Conference and FCS.
Opening day will present quite a challenge.
Missouri State will open its 2024 season at FCS national runner-up Montana on Saturday in Missoula, Montana, at 8 p.m. This is the first time the two teams have met on the gridiron.
Ryan Beard is entering his second season as Missouri State’s head coach. His team will look to build off a 4-7 season while staying focused on this season despite being ineligible for the FCS Playoffs.
Montana finished last season as the FCS national runner-up. The Grizzlies hope to finish the job this season as they enter the season as the No. 3-ranked team in the country.
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Missouri father uses a funeral to wean daughter off pacifier
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The Bishop family of Festus, Missouri, can smile now, but a few months ago the mood was much more somber as Courtney, Jake and their 3-year-old daughter Hazel said goodbye to a very important member of the family: Hazel’s beloved pacifier.
“It’s not good for her teeth and her jaws and all of that, so we had been trying to wean her off of it for some time,” Jake, 35, said.
Hazel’s beloved pacifier, affectionately known as “Paci,” had been with her for years. Jake knew saying goodbye could come with tears and tantrums, so he searched for creative approaches to ease the transition. He considered options such as cutting off the end of the pacifier, soaking it in vinegar or planting it in a pot.
Instead, Jake chose to give Paci a funeral.
Of course, before the internet, parents used to just take the thing away and deal with the tantrum. But today, for better or worse, young parents like Jake would rather not go to war over a binky. They’re “pacy-fists,” if you will.
“You need them to go through some tough times to really grow as a person but you don’t need to make extra tough times for them,” Jake said. “They’ll have plenty of those coming up.”
Parents delight in making milestones, but those milestones are often bittersweet because each turning point is a point of no return.
“She’s transitioning to the next stage of her life,” Jake said of Hazel, their first child. “We just got to hold onto those moments and those memories, because it goes fast.”
Hazel hasn’t asked for Paci again since. Although, shortly after the ceremony, Jake dug it up and buried it again in a keepsake box, making dad the one who just can’t let go.
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