People Over Politics

Child Marriage is Legal in Missouri

Walking across the parking lot coming from ALDIs where I had picked up food for the next few days, my heart was struggling. It was …

People Over Politics

Israel Unveiled: A Senator’s Insight into Faith, Politics, and Tenacity

Israel Unveiled: A Senator’s Insight into Faith, Politics, and Tenacity By Senator Holly Thompson Rehder Navigating the Intersections of Faith, Politics, and Human Resilience in …

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Protecting Women’s Rights in Sports

Protecting Women’s Rights in Sports: An Important Legislative Push In the realm of sports, fairness and equality are fundamental principles that ensure healthy competition and …

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Who’s Got the Kids?

I was invited this past week to visit Ellington, a community in one of the counties I will pick up come January due to the …

Politics & Pearls–Time for the final curtain call.
People Over Politics

Great Theater… but it’s time for the final curtain call.

If this past session did anything, it showed us where our cracks are–as a party, I mean. Lobbing bombs at each other, Republican against Republican, …

Poverty Cycle

A More Compassionate Approach to Homelessness

We’ve all seen them. The homeless in our communities. Maybe it was while leaving a restaurant late, cutting across an alley downtown to save time, …