Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A controversial sexual education book is set to be banned from a Missouri library – but only after its waiting list runs out. An ...

A controversial administrative rule from Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s office takes effect Tuesday, requiring libraries to change their policies in order to receive state funding. The new ...

Missouri is one of a growing number of places where government funding is being deployed as the newest weapon in the fight over books. Beginning May 30, a new state rule could deny state funding to ...

Despite strong opposition, Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s new rule governing libraries will go into effect later this spring, threatening public libraries’ state funding over providing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Republican state lawmakers in Missouri have threatened to defund all of the state’s public libraries in a drastic budget proposal ...

Amid mounting opposition, Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s office has received more than 10,000 public comments on its proposed rule that would threaten public libraries’ state funding for ...

MISSOURI FOR THE FIRST TIME IN RECENT HISTORY. LIBRARY WORKERS HAVE ELECTED TO FORM A BARGAINING UNIT. THE VEOT WAS JUST ANNOUNCED TODAY KMBC NEWS, BRIAN JOHNSON IS LIVE IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI WITH ...

Missouri library leaders say a plan by state legislators to strip funding for public libraries across the state would weaken rural libraries, and likely violates the state constitution. Missouri ...