Bootheel

Missouri State Sen. Jason Bean, R-Holcomb, on Thursday, July 11, 2024, at St. Louis Public Radio’s headquarters in Grand Center.

Government, Politics & Issues

Missouri state Sen. Jason Bean doesn’t expect reversal of governor’s budget cuts

Jason Rosenbaum

Bean represents Missouri’s 25th Senate District, which includes a number of southeast Missouri-based counties.

The cyberattack at Missouri Delta Medical Center does not appear to involve data from the hospital’s main electronic medical record system and is not affecting their ability to care for patients, the medical center said in a statement to St. Louis Public Radio.

Health, Science & Environment

Cyberattackers Target Missouri Hospital At Epicenter Of COVID Outbreak, Post Patient Data

Shahla Farzan

The ransomware group known as Hive has stolen confidential patient information from Sikeston-based Missouri Delta Medical Center, including Social Security numbers and medical information.

The Southeast Missouri Food Bank has seen the number of people coming to food pantries and mobile food distribution sites increase as much as three times since the pandemic began. Counties in southeast Missouri have some of the highest rates of food stamp applications in the state.

Economy & Business

Food Stamp Applicants Struggle To Get Through Missouri Call Center Line

Rebecca Rivas

To address the ‘historic’ high call volume, the federal government has given Missouri permission to suspend recertification interviews to receive food stamps.

The Missouri Farm Bureau says roughly 60 percent of the soybeans grown in the state are sent to China.

Health, Science & Environment

Investigators looking into pesticide misuse in Missouri Bootheel

Marshall Griffin

Missouri agriculture officials are looking into widespread misuse of pesticides in in the Bootheel region.Judy Grundler is division director for plant…

Government, Politics & Issues

Annual Bootheel festival goes on amid worries that a way of life has changed forever

Mary Delach Leonard

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 5, 2011 - As a steamy Friday afternoon melted into a hot June weekend, residents of East Prairie…

Health, Science & Environment

Army Corps breaches Birds Point levee, flooding farms to protect towns

Nancy Fowler

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 3, 2011 - Deploying a flood-control tool it had not used in 74 years, the Army Corps of Engineers…

Health, Science & Environment

Opponents ask Corps of Engineers to consider alternatives to detonating Bootheel levee

Rob Koenig

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 27, 2011 - On Jan. 25, 1937, an intentional blast breached a key levee in Missouri's Bootheel…

Health, Science & Environment

For many rural Missourians, you just can't get to health care from here, Part 2

Mary Delach Leonard

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 17, 2009 - Lesley O'Daniel, a nurse who works in rural Missouri, shook her head as she…