Show Me Today - The Voice of Missouri

Energy efficiency is becoming an easier part of our daily lives for homes and apartments… if you know how to use it right. 

Here to share helpful tips and debunk pesky myths is Danielle Ireland, Energy Services Specialist for White River Valley Cooperative in Branson. Cameron Conner joins her. 

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Show Me Today takes a closer look at a growing health issue right here in Missouri. MU Extension has just released a set of new guides to help families understand and manage it.

Matt Pilger sat down with Eden Stewart, Nutrition and Health Specialist with the University of Missouri Extension, to break down what Missourians need to know.

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Matt Pilger takes us inside a new effort at the Missouri Capitol aimed at connecting classrooms with the state’s deep agricultural roots.

He sat down with Missouri State Senator Barbara Washington, who is sponsoring a bill that would expand hands-on agriculture lessons for young students across the state. Washington says the goal is to show kids, whether they grow up in farm country or the middle of Kansas City, that agriculture offers a wide range of careers and opportunities. 

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Missouri is the 2nd state to opt into a national initiative aimed at improving foster care.  The main goal of the program is to ensure children have a safe, stable, loving environment.  Missouri has over 11-thousand newborns-to-young adults in foster care. 

Sara Smith, of the Missouri Department of Social Services, tells Sue Danielson there are 3,000 licensed foster homes and 25-hundred relative foster homes. 

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The State of Missouri provides skilled care homes for its veterans, working with the V-A, and sometimes it's free.

Ashley Byrd spoke with Becky McCann, a longtime nurse at the Missouri Veterans Commission home in Mt. Vernon. She is a veteran herself and explains how they serve those who served.

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Show Me Today looks at a proposal that could overhaul how high school sports are governed in Missouri. The Missouri Basketball Coaches Association says the plan puts politics over kids, and they’re urging lawmakers to back off. 

Matt Pilger spoke with Executive Director Denny Hunt about their concerns and what this fight means for Missouri schools.

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A military veteran serving in the Missouri Legislature wants the state to study the use of an alternative treatment to help with addiction, brain injuries, and mental health among other military veterans. In an effort to help them to thrive and be well, Ava State Representative Matthew Overcast has filed a bill to fund trials on the use of Ibogaine. 

Alisa Nelson talks to Representative Overcast, who says doing the same thing over and over does not produce better results.

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There’s a renewed effort to pass Bentley’s Law in Missouri. It would open the way to force those convicted of killing someone in a DWI crash to make child support payments to any surviving kids.

Marshall Griffin visited with the sponsor of Bentley’s Law, Missouri Senator Mike Henderson of St. Francois County.

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In Missouri, a judge can choose to wait to finalize a divorce if the wife is pregnant. The state House of Representatives wants to change this technicality. It has unanimously passed a bill sponsored by Dittmer state Representative Cecelie Williams. 

Alisa Nelson talks to Representative Williams, a domestic violence survivor, who says that when her bill passes, it will be her independence day.  

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Missouri’s film scene is having a moment. Movie and TV crews spent more than forty million dollars here last year, and the state says the investment is paying off. 

Matt Pilger sat down with Missouri Film Office Director Andrea Sporcic Klund to talk about what’s driving the boom.

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