By Jason Hancock | Editor-in-Chief
Good morning,
Sophia Shore likes the candidates everyone else writes off.
At 28, she runs Missouri Maverick Strategies from a small office in Camdenton, taking on Republican incumbents, party leaders and some of the state’s biggest consulting firms.
This year, four of her Senate candidates won their primaries.
The victories have put Shore at the center of a familiar fight inside the Missouri GOP — between the people running the party and the insurgents trying to remake it.
(Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent)
by Jason Hancock
Sophia Shore built a political consulting firm for insurgent candidates who are told they can’t win. Missouri Republicans are paying attention.
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by Rebecca Rivas
Four years, an ownership change and lengthy negotiations ended with raises and new workplace protections for employees at Key Cannabis
(Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Indenpendent)
COMMENTARY
by Jason Hancock
Missouri has spent years trying to fix its child welfare system. As backlogs return and lawmakers prepare another hearing, two stories ask whether reforms are working.
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