Columbia will have at least one new city council member next year. The Missourian reports Clyde Ruffin is not running for re-election when is latest term ends in 2020. Ruffin is on his second, three-year term representing Ward 1. That ward includes dow...
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Boone County Commission approves extra money for outdoor sirens
The Boone County Commission this week approved spending about $14,000 more on outdoor emergency sirens. Chad Martin, interim director of Boone County Office of Emergency Management, says the budget already called for four new sirens, but now that’s exp...
Read More »House Republicans force way into closed-door deposition
(AP) – Frustrated Republican lawmakers are getting creative as they try new tactics to oppose the impeachment probe. Republicans brought the House Democrats’ investigation to a halt as around two dozen GOP House members stormed into a close...
Read More »Hawley bill would move federal agencies from DC
Brain-drain the swamp. Missouri U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley has filed a bill that would move ten federal agencies from Washington D.C. to regions struggling economically. The agriculture department would head to Missouri. The proposal comes after Hawley on T...
Read More »Trump lifts sanctions on Turkey, says cease-fire permanent
(AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will lift sanctions on Turkey after the NATO ally agreed to permanently stop fighting Kurdish forces in Syria and he defended his decision to withdraw American troops. “We’re getting out,̶...
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