By Jason Hancock | Editor-in-Chief
Good morning,
Last year, after Missouri lawmakers repealed the paid sick leave law voters had approved just months earlier, a veteran Republican consultant told me the legislature had “kicked the hornet’s nest.”
He meant lawmakers risked triggering a backlash that would leave future legislatures with less power.
He may have been right.
The backlash is now Amendment 6, which would make it extraordinarily difficult for lawmakers to undo voter-approved laws and would also limit their ability to change the initiative process itself.
It could be one of the most consequential shifts in power Missouri voters make this fall.
(Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications)
by Jason Hancock
Measure would make citizen initiatives extraordinarily difficult for lawmakers to change and would restrict their ability to rewrite the initiative process itself.
(Fitzgibbon Memorial Hospital/Facebook)
by Meg Cunningham
The closure comes as maternity care continues to disappear across rural Missouri. More than half of Missouri’s counties have no local labor and delivery services.
(Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder)
COMMENTARY
by Lynn Schmidt
I am tired of watching most of my party’s leaders in Washington behave as if abandoning Ukraine to Vladimir Putin is simply the price of loyalty to this president.
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