Funding

The city has already received half of the money.

The $28 million increase in the budget is meant to cover some “one-time costs” the county will incur this year, plus wage increases and county projects that were postponed due to the pandemic.

Cheryl Watkins-Moore has a vision.Even though the building she’s standing in is empty, she points to spots where she can see a trendy coffee bar beneath a…

Nine arts groups in Missouri and Illinois will share $45,000 in grants announced Wednesday by Arts and Education Council, a nonprofit agency funded by…

Members of two local NAACP chapters are urging the state of Missouri to give equal funding and treatment to the state’s historically black universities:…

Updated 12:27 p.m. May 5 with House veto override - The same day that Gov. Jay Nixon, D-Mo. vetoed a measure that would have changed the way school…

A group of Missouri lawmakers is considering an overhaul of how the state’s colleges and universities are funded each year.A first draft of…

It was 45 years ago today that President Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 into law. The law established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and eventually the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio It charged the CPB with encouraging and facilitating program diversity and the expansion and development of non-commercial broadcasting.

With this exciting gift from Monsanto Company, the $12 million campaign for a new home for the station is now just $2.6 million from completion. As exciting and important as this announcement is for us at the station, it also resulted in some questions from a few listeners worried that a gift of this size from a company that we frequently report on might adversely influence our editorial decision-making.

The Missouri Senate is wrestling with legislation that would tweak the state’s public school funding formula.The bill is pitting rural and suburban…