1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (528+ words) A new push to fund renovations at the old Benton High School building is emerging for the first time in roughly two decades, as community leaders prepare for a town hall meeting to discuss fundraising ideas and potential uses for…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (165+ words) Southeast Missouri senators team up with House speaker Patterson at Kansas City fundraiser seMissourian Southeast Missouri senators team up with House speaker Patterson at Kansas City fundraiser House Speaker Jon Patterson joins Southeast Missouri Sens. Jamie Burger and Jason Bean…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (591+ words) Back in December, I featured a story about the reconstruction of the Vedder Building, which stands west of the original Southeast Missourian Building. Naeter Brothers, the owners and publishers of the newspaper, purchased the two-story brick building in early 1951 from…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (893+ words) Sen. Tom Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sounded the alarm over the weekend after a failed procedural vote to extend the program. The senators in a letter…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1073+ words) The Senate passed legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies early Friday morning, after weeks of delays and fierce backlash to an unrelated $1.776 billion settlement fund that threatened to derail the bill. Also, Trump said Thursday that federal…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (414+ words) The roughly $70 billion bill to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol was delayed for weeks as Republican senators navigated the various obstacles to passage created by President Donald Trump and the White House. They say they are…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (477+ words) A real estate broker says an organization denied her the opportunity to purchase land in an Arkansas development because of her Jewish ancestry, and because she has a Black husband and biracial children, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1063+ words) In states like Nebraska and Alaska, Democratic officials are, in some cases, looking past their own party’s candidates while subtly encouraging — or even openly promoting — independent candidates they hope can outperform the Democratic label. The Democratic National Committee and some…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (192+ words) Captured on Film: Missouri’s governor used a 1950 graduation speech to blast big-city newspapers seMissourian Captured on Film: Missouri’s governor used a 1950 graduation speech to blast big-city newspapers Missouri Gov. Forrest Smith used a college commencement speech to attack big-city newspapers…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (370+ words) “I think, at a very basic level, people think we’re making policy decisions, we're saying we think this is how things should be, as opposed to what the law provides,” he said. “I think they view us as purely political…...