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Missouri Senate committee slashes funds for building Rock Island Trail • Missouri Independent
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Opponents of a new cross-state recreation path alongside the previous Rock Island Railroad hall have the higher hand within the Basic Meeting after the state Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday lower the funds wanted to develop it to be used.
The committee permitted 4 spending payments for the approaching yr to pay for brand spanking new development, restore of state amenities and utilizing $2.8 billion in federal COVID-19 aid funds. Gov. Mike Parson, in a finances proposal permitted by the Missouri Home, devoted $69.2 million in federal aid funds to develop the 144-mile railroad hall given to the state final yr by Ameren Missouri.
“I’m opposed due to the a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars} that we’ve in deferred upkeep across the state on all the opposite state parks,” appropriations Vice Chairman Lincoln Hough, R-Springrfield, stated after the committee vote. “I wish to see us spend money on the buildings and infrastructures we’ve in these amenities across the state earlier than we exit and construct a $100-plus million path.”
The payments permitted Monday embody greater than $110 million for different state parks wants, together with $57.6 million for basic upkeep and restore initiatives and $40.9 million for water and wastewater infrastructure upgrades.
Path proponents have lobbied for years for the state to accumulate the rail hall that runs by way of south-central Missouri from Beaufort in Franklin County to Windsor in Henry County. Supporters see it as a complement to the Katy Path State Park, opened to the general public about 30 years in the past, and an opportunity to preserve buildings resembling tunnels and bridges that date to the early twentieth century.
“I’m terribly disillusioned,” stated Greg Harris, retired government director and present board member of Rock Island Path Inc.
Supporters haven’t given up hope, he stated, because the funding is within the Home model of the finances. Lawmakers have till Friday to reconcile variations between the chambers, he famous.
“It truly is as much as the Home and Senate convention committee, to give you an settlement between $69 million and 0,” Harris stated.
However earlier than the invoice permitted within the Senate committee can get to a convention committee, it should be permitted on the Senate flooring.
In all, lawmakers have 19 spending payments totaling almost $50 billion to be accomplished by Friday. Of that quantity, 14 have handed each chambers and are set for convention committee work as early as Tuesday morning.
The 4 payments despatched to the Senate flooring Monday by the appropriations committee spend a complete of $3.8 billion. The most important variations with the Home are within the invoice spending funds from the American Rescue Plan Act handed in March 2021.
Together with the Rock Island Path funding, the Senate committee lower $50 million added by the Home for capital enhancements at river ports, $20 million advisable for constructing cell towers on public land and $88 million for a brand new Missouri State Freeway Patrol academy.
The committee restored $200 million for broadband growth to make the whole the $300 million sought by Parson. It additionally added $25 million to a plan for industrial web site growth that was $50 million within the Home model and that Parson pegged at $25 million.
The committee additionally added 69 development initiatives with a complete value of about $210 million that weren’t advisable by Parson or included by the Home. The initiatives vary from $50,000 for enhancements on major streets within the Dutchtown neighborhood of St. Louis to $31.5 million for enlargement of the Thompson Heart for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Issues on the College of Missouri.
The invoice with COVID aid funds has one thing for each senator who requested for assist with a neighborhood mission, appropriations committee Chairman Dan Hegeman, R-Cosby, stated.
“I feel each Senator has one thing on this that ought to please them,” Hegeman stated.
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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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Kansas man charged after child porn allegedly sent while in Missouri
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – A Kansas man has been charged after he allegedly sent child pornography while in a Missouri county.
Court documents filed in the Platte County, Missouri, Circuit Court have revealed that on Wednesday, Aug. 28, Courtnie R. Purvis, 45, of Overland Park, Kansas, has been charged with a single count of promoting child pornography in the first degree.
A complaint filed by the prosecuting attorney reported that in June 2023, Purvis knowingly sent out child pornography while in Platte County. The content allegedly depicted two victims, with whom Purvis has been barred from any contact.
As a part of his $25,000 cash-only bond agreement, if bailed out, Purvis is not allowed contact with any minor whatsoever. As of Friday, he is not behind Platte County bars.
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