Through it all, especially when facing an employer who refuses to put our safety and our patients' safety above their bottom line, we need a collective voice to advocate for our patients and ourselves.
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The issue of not taxing internet sales in Missouri was a very important one to retailers and government agencies prior even to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Governor Parson issued a primarily mild stay at home order on April 6, set to expire on April 24. It should expire today.
Nurses should freely exercise their First Amendment rights, but a large national labor union pushing for employee unrest at the peak of the most crushing global pandemic is just plain wrong.
As a veteran, I know that coronavirus isn’t the only public health crisis that members of the military are facing right now.
Terminating the insurance of Medicaid-eligible Missourians puts us all at risk. Missouri should implement SB 514’s Medicaid suspension amendment immediately.
Gov. Mike Parson — like most governors, mayors, and county leaders — is in nearly impossible situations.
Even when workers get sick and elected officials order quarantines, agriculture must go on.
I hope that our brief sojourn back to the Midwest allows us to avoid danger while reconnecting with the less ephemeral aspects of what it means to be alive.
We will get through this crisis, but it will require us all to change our habits and becoming more careful about what we do.