The University of Missouri Health Care’s Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment unveiled a 74,000 square-foot building Friday its leaders say will pave the way for better autism care in Missouri. In a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Columbia, the center’s top advisors and staff joined state officials to showcase the facility and the launch of the […]

The plan to completely overhaul the way Missouri funds higher education survived a committee vote Wednesday despite bipartisan misgivings about the impact on state colleges and universities. And the House Budget Committee also backed Chairman Dirk Deaton’s proposal to cut almost $52 million from child care payments and abandon plans to change how those payments […]