Missouri Independent

COVID-19 vaccine in a syringe

‘Just Not Enough People’: Health Care Workers Face Fatigue as COVID-19 Surges

As cases and hospitalizations hit all-time highs, both in Missouri and across the country, hospitals, officials and healthcare workers themselves are warning that staffing is stretched thin.

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Rev. Michelle Higgins speaks to the canvassers at St. John’s Church

Groups Work to Energize Missouri’s Black Voters in Election’s Final Weeks

A network of paid canvassers and volunteers are trying to energize Black voters and get them to the polls in Missouri.

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