Missouri’s final-week stress test

By Jason Hancock | Editor-in-Chief

Good morning,

The final week of session is always part deadline, part stress test. But this year's home stretch looks calmer than Missouri has seen in a while.

The budget passed on time. Major bills are advancing without the factional warfare that's defined recent sessions. The Senate, for once, is not eating itself alive.

But the appearance of normalcy doesn’t mean hard questions have gone away. And the final days of a legislative session are where priorities get tested.

There’s still plenty of time for drama before the gavel comes down at 6 p.m. Friday.

by Rudi Keller

A calmer session has already produced an on-time budget and more bills than last year, but education, Medicaid, property taxes and other fights remain unsettled before Friday’s deadline.

by Jana Rose Schleis

Many Missouri policymakers like the idea of more nuclear power. The harder question is whether customers should help pay for new plants years before they generate electricity.

by Janice Ellis

Redistricting fights, court rulings and proposed voting restrictions are renewing old battles over Black political power in Missouri and across the country.

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