At 14 of 16 executive branch agencies, the percentage of non-white employees is less than the share of the state’s minority population. A 2010 diversity requirement is now at odds with growing GOP suspicion of DEI efforts.
Polling places will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day, Nov. 8.Voters can find their polling precinct by checking their voter registration on the Secretary of State’s website or through a link on the Boone County Clerk’s website under the Where Do I Vote? button.
After eight years without one, the state is beginning a study of minority- and women-owned businesses in Missouri and how much they participate in state contracts.
Lincoln University, one of the state's two historically Black universities, has an "egregious" track record of not contracting with minority-
and women-owned businesses, a university leader said.