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After voucher data leak, Missouri treasurer’s office pointed at its contractor

  • Annelise Hanshaw

Newly released emails show that when the Missouri State Treasurer’s Office learned in April that spreadsheets on its website unintentionally exposed the names of students receiving private school vouchers, it downplayed the leak to families and drafted a statement blaming its software contractor. That provider says that is not where the problem started. And the […]

Commentary

The weird world of Missouri campaign B-roll

  • Jason Hancock

It’s one of my favorite times of the election year: B-roll season. Across Missouri, candidates are posting B-roll — the wordless, context-free footage ad-makers layer under narration — so the political action committees they’re legally barred from coordinating with can stumble upon it and cut it into ads. All of it perfectly legal, thanks to […]