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*Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Missouri Newsletter for 2024-12-11 ( 4 items )  
2024-25 NAIA Men's Basketball Players of the Week - No. 2 (10)
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Dec. 11 -- The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics issued the following news release: Quenton Coleman of Wayland Baptist (Texas) secured NAIA Men's Basketball Offensive Player of the Week honors. At the same time, Qualen Pettus of Dalton State (Ga.) was named the NAIA Men's Basketball Defensive Player of the Week. The duo was selected based on their performances from December 2-8 and were chosen from a pool of conference/Continental Athletic Conference (Inde more PR

AFP-Missouri Calls for End of State Income Tax in New Campaign (10)
ARLINGTON, Virginia, Dec. 11 -- Americans for Prosperity issued the following news release on Dec. 10, 2024: JEFFERSON CITY, MO - Americans for Prosperity-Missouri (AFP-MO) today called on state lawmakers to vote to gradually phase out state income taxes in the next legislative session beginning in January and announced a statewide advocacy campaign for it as part of its bold 2025 legislative agenda. The campaign will help bolster support for real tax reform, including reforms found in HJR1/HB more PR

National Veterans Service Surpasses $14B in Total Recovered VA Disability Compensation (10)
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Dec. 10 -- The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S., a veterans service organization, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is proud to announce it has surpassed a milestone in fiscal year 2024, as its National Veterans Service (NVS) network of 2,162 Accredited Service Officers recovered $14.6 billion in compensatory awards, resulting in tangible, positive impacts to the lives of more than half a million represented veterans.  more PR

WashU Medicine Reaches All-Time High in NIH Funding (10)
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Dec. 11 (TNSres) -- The Washington University School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * NIH grants recognize the quality and significance of WashU Medicine research in enabling life-changing advances in medicine * * * In a testament to the quality and national competitiveness of biomedical research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the school secured $683 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in more PR