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EXPLAINER: Rearview look at affirmative action and Black college enrollment

Posted on July 8, 2023 by The Joplin Globe

ATLANTA — While many public colleges and universities had already jettisoned affirmative action programs, the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 29 ruling against factoring race in college admissions, leaves private, more selective, universities having to find new ways to meet diversity…

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Andy Ostmeyer: Changes coming to weekend e-papers, but not to our weekend coverage

Posted on July 8, 2023 by The Joplin Globe

It’s no secret that this has been a rough time for newspapers.

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Ryan Walters hits back at critics, says his comments about Tulsa Race Massacre were misconstrued

Posted on July 8, 2023 by The Joplin Globe

Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters is firing back at media and critics, saying they took his comments about the Tulsa Race Massacre out of context, and that he does believe the 1921 destruction of the Greenwood District was…

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Donations begin for baby drop-off boxes allowed by new Kansas law

Posted on July 8, 2023 by The Joplin Globe

TOPEKA, Kan. — The Ottawa Fire Department is working to become one of the first Kansas locations to install a baby drop-off box after implementation of legislation allowing for parents to surrender their infants anonymously.

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Missouri governor signs bills impacting cannabis banking, employee background checks

Posted on July 8, 2023 by The Joplin Globe

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s marijuana businesses will have fewer obstacles when it comes to accessing banking, but they must now get fingerprint background checks from all their new employees and contractors under legislation that the governor signed on Thursday.

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Missouri bill creating transitional benefits for SNAP, TANF signed into law

Posted on July 8, 2023 by The Joplin Globe

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday signed legislation designed to ease the steep drop-off in pubic benefits that low-income Missourians face when they receive even a modest increase in income.

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Effort to boost payment for wrongly convicted vetoed by Missouri governor

Posted on July 8, 2023 by The Joplin Globe

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The state shouldn’t be responsible for paying people released after their convictions have been overturned, Gov. Mike Parson wrote explaining his veto of a bill that would expand who is eligible for compensation for being wrongly…

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Area industrial parks to be focus of 'Newsmakers'

Posted on July 8, 2023 by The Joplin Globe

The next edition of “Newsmakers” on KGCS-TV will focus on the industrial parks available in Joplin and Carthage to area businesses.

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Gordon Parks Museum receives gift of AME church property

Posted on July 7, 2023 by The Joplin Globe

FORT SCOTT, Kan. — A recent gift of the African Methodist Episcopal Church property will help the Gordon Parks Museum continue to connect the threads of the multitalented photographer’s career to Fort Scott.

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KCU, medical schools cite role of diversity amid affirmative action ruling

Posted on July 7, 2023 by The Joplin Globe

Kansas City University and other medical schools across the country say they remain committed to diversity on their campuses after the U.S. Supreme Court, in a ruling last month, gutted affirmative action.

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