Mo. Senate, House Committees Defeat Medicaid Expansion Plans
A Republican-led Missouri Senate committee has defeated a plan to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care law.The Senate Appropriations Committee rejected the legislation on a...
View ArticleRural Reads: Redneck reality, Obama's budget and critical access hospitals
Every Friday, KBIA's Health & Wealth Desk talks about the week's most interesting articles and reports on rural health, wealth and society issues. 'Redneck reality' and rural portrayal in cable...
View ArticleMo. House Passes Bill Criminalizing Enforcement Of Federal Gun Laws
The Missouri House has passed legislation that declares any future federal ban on semi-automatic weapons or large capacity clips is "unenforceable" in Missouri.House Bill 170 also makes it a felony,...
View ArticlePresident Obama signs Mo. disaster declaration
President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster declaration after severe storms struck Missouri from May 29 to June 10.
View ArticleNixon, Obama to travel to Warrensburg
Gov. Jay Nixon is joining President Barack Obama during the president's upcoming visit to the University of Central Missouri.Obama is traveling Wednesday to the Warrensburg school and to Galesburg,...
View ArticleObama talks economy, education at University of Central Missouri
The President discussed an American economy that's turning around, comparing where the country was five years ago to today. Obama says the basic American bargain of hard work paying off is alive again...
View ArticleRodeo clown at Missouri State Fair wore Obama mask
This story is updatingPeople and politicians are speaking out against an incident at the the Missouri State Fair on Saturday. A clown wearing a President Barack Obama mask appeared at a rodeo this...
View ArticleObama to visit Kansas City area
Missouri's automotive industry will be getting renewed attention this week when President Barack Obama visits a Ford Motor Co. plant near Kansas City.Obama is scheduled to travel Friday to Ford's new...
View ArticlePM Newscast for September 18, 2013
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:MU Provost Brian Foster to retireAn update on the 9-1-1 call centerState Sen. Kurt Schaefer to run for Attorney General
View ArticleObama nominates Ronnie White for federal judgeship in Mo.
Former Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White has been nominated for a seat on the U.S. District Court.White's nomination Thursday by President Barack Obama marks a third chance for him to become a...
View ArticleMo. passed over in 2012 presidential campaign
The 2012 presidential campaign has been unlike anything Missouri voters have seen in quite some time. Or perhaps "not seen" is a better description.Neither Democratic President Barack Obama nor...
View ArticleAn outside look into the United States presidential race
In just a few days, we’ll find out whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney will be leading the world’s most powerful country for the next four years. While Americans are eager to leave the grueling...
View ArticleAnalysis: Missouri voters stick with status quo
The status quo has got to go? Not in Missouri.Based on election results this past week, Missouri voters might be better described as gung ho for the status quo.
View ArticleMo. Senate panel adopts bill nullifying gun laws
A Missouri Senate panel is trying to prevent the enforcement in the state of President Barack Obama's executive orders on gun control.
View ArticleYears in the making, new farm bill becomes law
President Barak Obama signed the new farm bill into law Friday at Michigan State University in East Lansing, ending years of negotiations and wrangling.With farm equipment, hay bales and crates of...
View ArticleObama mocks Akin, Missouri GOP candidates remain quiet
President Barack Obama is mocking Senate candidate Todd Akin of Missouri for his remarks about a woman's body being able to avoid pregnancy during what Akin called a "legitimate rape."Obama told a...
View ArticleLive Blog: Thursday At The Democratic National Convention
Good evening from Charlotte. Tonight during the last day of the Democratic National Convention, President Obama will accept his party's nomination.It will be a star-studded evening with performances...
View ArticleObama to accept nomination Thursday night
President Barack Obama will take the stage tonight (Thursday) in Charlotte, North Carolina, to cap the Democratic National Convention. In 2008, Obama narrowly lost in Missouri.
View ArticleFact Checkers Ding Obama And Biden For Some Spinning
"We heard some facts being spun" Thursday night when President Obama and Vice President Biden gave their acceptance speeches at the Democratic National Convention, report the watchdogs at...
View ArticleCommentary: The Democratic National Convention
I again asked students in my American Political Parties class at Columbia College if President Obama’s acceptance speech was a success and if it changed their minds about him. Of the six who sought...
View ArticleSpence linking Nixon to Obama in Mo. gov's race
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dave Spence has begun running a TV ad linking Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to President Barack Obama.The ad that began airing Tuesday criticizes the Democratic governor...
View ArticleDebate this: Which presidential candidate is better for agriculture?
The presidential candidates have yet to meet in a face-to-face debate. But last week in Des Moines, Iowa, ag leaders witnessed a preview of sorts during a Presidential Forum on Agriculture held in...
View ArticleState and local party leaders discuss first of three presidential debates
Missouri Democratic and Republican strategists weighed in on the campaign trail for their parties after Wednesday night's first Presidential debate.
View ArticleDifferent format could change the tone of second presidential debate
In another face-off between the presidential candidates, the format for tomorrow’s debate might create a different tone in the discussion.An expert at MU said the second Presidential Debate could be a...
View ArticleDebates draw MU students to nonpartisan campus watch parties
More than a hundred MU students gathered on campus for last night’s presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Presidential candidate and former Governor Mitt Romney.Several MU student...
View ArticleObama wants trust between police and communities
President Barack Obama says he wants to make sure that federal programs that provide Pentagon equipment to police departments "aren't building a militarized culture."
View ArticleMissouri Man Charged With Threatening to Shoot Obama
A central Missouri man is facing a federal charge for allegedly threatening to shoot President Barack Obama.Twenty-four-year-old Cameron Stout, of Stover, was charged Tuesday in U.S. District Court in...
View ArticlePresident Approves Disaster Declaration for Missouri
President Barack Obama has approved a major disaster declaration for 33 Missouri counties damaged by severe weather and flooding in late December and early January.
View ArticleAfternoon Newscast for March 16, 2016
Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:Missouri lawmakers urge statewide regulations for UberMU Approves of Outside Review of University SystemSenator Blunt won't vote on Obama SCOTUS...
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