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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins Previews First Ever 'National Farmers Market Week Extravaganza'
Breitbart
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July 29, 2025
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is highlighting the upcoming “National Farmers Market Week extravaganza” on the National Mall, which will be part of a weeklong celebration of American agriculture ahead of America’s 250th birthday celebration....
At the Capitol: Power plant proposed at Toronto
KELO - South Dakota
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August 7, 2025
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) -- Western Minnesota Municipal Power Agency intends to build a powerplant south of the Deuel County community of Toronto in eastern South Dakota and sell the electricity to Missouri River Energy Services. They jointly filed a...
Missouri State University's efactory awarded $500,000 in MOBEC funds from Missouri Technology Corporation
Howell County News - Missouri
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July 29, 2025
A half-million-dollar boost is coming to southern Missouri's startup scene. Missouri State University's efactory has been awarded $500,000 over the next three years from the Missouri Technology Corporation (MTC) through its Missouri Building...
Funding cuts threaten health care access for Missouri seniors
KSDK - Missouri
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Advocates say federal cuts to SNAP will hurt low-income seniors and the long-term care facilities, health care providers and organizations that they rely on. MISSOURI, USA — Dr. Marvin Singleton, a Republican who spent 13 years as a Missouri state...
A growth-minded Missouri bank absorbs a local competitor
American Banker - New York
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August 1, 2025
A Missouri community bank remains firmly in expansion mode after completing a merger with a rival in Kansas City's fast-growing Northland region. "We absolutely continue to be open to growth opportunities," Verimore Bank President and CEO Kristi...
The Council for Responsible Nutrition announces Science in Session theme and lineup
Nutritional Outlook
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In an August 5, 2025, press release1, the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) announced the theme and lineup for this year’s Science in Session, part of the series of events taking place during Convergence ‘25 in October. The events include...
Letter to the Editor: Public trust matters in Missouri’s growing film sector
Springfield Business Journal - Missouri
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August 1, 2025
Dear editor, In May 2024, as executive director of the Ozarks Film Foundry, I proposed to the Southwest Missouri Council of Governments that it be endorsed as a regional film commission and join the Association of Film Commissioners International...
Jet Cars Will Bring Car Culture to Missouri Lakes
KICK AM 1530 - Illinois
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August 1, 2025
American culture is intertwined with cars, especially outside the northeast coast. We love our cars. Often we see them as an extension of ourselves. So why not have that extend out onto the waters too? Sports cars are made for smooth roads....but...
Not your average summer camp: Teens operate nuclear reactor at Missouri S&T
Missouri S&T News
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August 1, 2025
Forty high school students from across the United States and abroad traveled to Missouri S&T and spent part of their summer doing something very few teenagers — or even adults — ever experience: operating a nuclear reactor. “At Missouri S&T’s...
States and vendors both are frustrated by procurement
StateScoop
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August 7, 2025
A recent investigation by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers has found that the public sector’s reputation of being tricky to sell products to is in some cases well earned. A report published by the group Wednesday...
Missouri GOP repeal of voter-approved laws inspires backlash: 'They've kicked the hornet's nest'
KRPS - Kansas
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July 29, 2025
Republican lawmakers' decision to overturn a voter-approved expansion of paid sick leave means benefits Missouri workers accrued in recent months will disappear on Aug. 28. They also placed a question on the 2026 ballot rolling back abortion...
(LISTEN): Two GOP Missouri lawmakers and Calzone file lawsuit involved Chiefs legislation
KWOS - Missouri
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August 1, 2025
Legislation signed into law this summer by Missouri’s governor that’s aimed at keeping the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals in Missouri is unconstitutional, according to a GOP state senator who filed a lawsuit Thursday in Cole County Circuit Court....
JoMoCon pop culture convention tomorrow at Joplin Expo
Newstalk KZRG - Missouri
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August 1, 2025
Joplin, MO – One of Southwest Missouri’s favorite summertime events is this weekend JoMoCon, the Joplin-based pop culture convention, will be roaring back to life on Saturday, August 2nd from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The convention keeps growing each...
Missouri refugee service providers adjust financial strategies amid federal funding uncertainty
My Ozarks Online - Missouri
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July 29, 2025
Nonprofit organizations that provide refugee services in Missouri are pivoting to diversified financial strategies to reduce their dependency on government funding. These organizations are now focusing more on expanding community-based...
Evergy receives Missouri approval to build gas plants, solar farms after Kansas thumbs up
The Lawrence Times - Kansas
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Share this post or save for later TOPEKA — Missouri utility regulators on Thursday approved Evergy’s request to build three natural gas plants and two solar farms, freeing the company to move forward with infrastructure projects that will cost...
Lincoln University Names New Agriculture Dean
Kansas City The Call
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August 1, 2025
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Lincoln University of Missouri has hired Johnnie Westbrook as dean of the College of Agriculture, Environmental and Human Sciences. Westbrook comes to Lincoln from West Virginia State University where he has served as...
Missouri’s Damon Wilson makes donation to youth football program in hometown using NIL dollars
Yahoo Sports
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Before Damon Wilson was a five-star recruit, he began his football journey at the youth level in his hometown of Venice, Fla. He went on to play college football at Georgia before transferring to Missouri this year. As he prepares for his first...
Average VA IRRRL loan amount in Missouri increases from Q4 FY2024 to Q1 FY2025
Show-Me State Times - Missouri
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August 1, 2025
The average VA Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loan (IRRRL) amount in Missouri during the first quarter of fiscal year 2025 was $305,306, according to figures provided by the Veterans Affairs Home Loans Index.The average VA IRRRL amount in...
Missouri home repair business owner charged with elderly exploitation
KTTN - Missouri
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July 29, 2025
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has announced the filing of a felony complaint in Morgan County Circuit Court against Harlin Dilday Jr., the owner of two home repair enterprises, “D&D Outdoors” and “Dilday & Sons.” Dilday Jr. faces charges...
2 dead after helicopter strikes power line and crashes into barge on Mississippi River
NBC News
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August 7, 2025
Two people were killed Thursday after the helicopter they were in struck power lines crossing the Mississippi River and crashed onto a barge below, police said. The accident happened around 11 a.m. as the crew of the helicopter was conducting work...