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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) – Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway has declared a complete victory for Missouri students after the Cole County Circuit Court upheld a state law expanding charter school opportunities in Boone County.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - Polls are open across the U.S. as control of Congress hangs in the balance.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) – Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway has issued a cease‑and‑desist letter to Eli Lilly and Company directing the drug manufacturer to stop imposing unlawful conditions on Missouri hospitals participating in the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program.
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Reporting from Just the News
Supreme Court precedent has determined it is illegal for government officials to restrict constituents' access to official social media accounts. Public school employees are considered state government officials.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — Missouri has joined a multistate legal effort urging a federal appeals court to let Nebraska enforce a law requiring age verification for new social media accounts and parental consent before minors can create profiles.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Twenty-two financial officers from across the U.S. wrote to the nation’s top rating agencies – Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P – asking them to explain the influence ESG policies have had on states’ credit ratings, with the officers detailing what they consider the harm using such “political assumptions” causes to states and taxpayers alike.
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Reporting from The Center Square
A pension system can outsource almost anything. It can hire managers, pay for expensive advice, and delegate the administrative work of voting the shares it owns. But it cannot delegate its responsibility to know how those shares were voted.
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Reporting from Just the News
The questions come as voters prepare for election day, which will take place nationwide on Nov. 3. Early voting in some states began as early as Tuesday.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – With early voting having already started for the upcoming midterm elections, congressional Republicans are touting the tax policies in their so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act that became law last year.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – With Americans questioning the hundreds of thousands of AI-enhanced surveillance cameras across the country, one Republican lawmaker is introducing legislation to curb the worst abuses of the technology.
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