The cut was sold as reducing revenue by about $111 million annually. Now the state budget director says the revenue loss could be as much as $500 million the first year and $360 million annual thereafter.

An application to open a charter school relies on a 2024 law making Boone County the first outside St. Louis and Kansas City to allow the independent public schools.

The disagreement over whether Missouri's new congressional map is in effect or frozen is at the heart of a bitter dispute in federal court between the state attorney general's office and lawyers for the referendum campaign.

The office invites anyone to provide information for consideration during the regularly-scheduled audit.

While a federal court decision Monday gives Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins the chance to reject the referendum, backers of the plan aren't expecting that move to hold up in state court.

At their lunch meeting Tuesday, the Missouri Department of Transportation explained a number of measures to ease traffic, including controversial raised medians.

The decision came just a few hours after a state trial over which signatures should be counted if petitions are delivered this week.

Attorneys for People Not Politicians said in court Monday that a judge should rule against Secretary of State Denny Hoskins' actions on the proposed congressional redistricting referendum.

Voters legalized abortion, but decades of restrictions and a hollowed-out provider network mean most Missourians still leave the state for care.

The ballot measure also includes a ban on gender affirming health care for minors. Judges reissued the summary statement that voters will see on November 2026 ballots to make clear rights were being repealed, not newly established.