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Missouri Senate overwhelmingly approves bill requiring schools test, filter water for lead • Missouri Independent
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Faculties in Missouri could be required to check ingesting water for lead, and set up filters if it’s above secure ranges, below a invoice that gained near-unanimous approval Monday within the state Senate.
The proposal, amended onto a separate invoice by Sen. Jill Schupp, D-Creve Coeur, handed on a 32-1 vote.
“Let’s ensure our college students, employees and lecturers have clear water in our faculties,” Schupp stated in a textual content message to The Impartial. “Lead causes lasting injury. We’ve got the power to scrub it up, and now could be the time to maneuver this effort ahead.”
The invoice now heads to the Missouri Home, the place an analogous proposal has but to come back up for a ground debate. The legislative session ends at 6 p.m. Might 13.
Lead is a neurotoxin that, whereas dangerous to all, is particularly harmful to youngsters. Publicity to even small doses of lead could cause lasting injury, together with slowed development and growth and listening to, speech and studying issues.
Scientists have identified result in be harmful for greater than a century, however it was generally utilized in water pipes, paint and family merchandise for many of the twentieth Century and lingers within the atmosphere now.
1000’s of Missouri youngsters have elevated ranges of lead of their blood annually, and the numbers reported by the state doubtless underrepresent the issue as a result of screening charges are so low.
Madeline Semanisin, an legal professional for the Nice Rivers Environmental Regulation Heart in St. Louis, stated the invoice was one other piece of the puzzle to scale back childhood lead poisoning.
“Eradicating lead from college is so necessary as a result of exterior the house youngsters spend most of their time in school, particularly these youthful youngsters,” Semanisin stated. “And so if there’s anyplace to handle the large-scale lead disaster we face, I believe it’s nice to begin with college.”
Whereas most exposures come from getting old lead-based paint, contaminated water is one other main supply of lead poisoning.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends lead focus in class ingesting not exceed one half per billion as a result of it’s the lowest detectable degree, though there isn’t any identified secure blood lead focus. The Environmental Safety Company requires public water techniques to take motion if greater than 10% of routine samples have 15 or extra elements per billion of lead.
Schupp’s invoice would require filters on any sources of ingesting water which can be discovered to have lead concentrations above one half per billion.
Missouri lawmakers seem poised to applicable $27 million to assist faculties check their water and set up filters. The funding has acquired approval from the Missouri Home and awaits motion by a Senate committee.
State governments have already got funds, offered by federal grants, for faculties that voluntarily check their water. But when the invoice passes, Missouri would stand aside from Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska by requiring motion at such low ranges.
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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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