Saturday - November 23, 2024
*Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Missouri Newsletter for Friday November 01, 2024 ( 6 items )  

2024 NAIA Women's Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Rating - No. 4
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Nov. 1 -- The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics issued the following news release: Taylor (Ind.) takes the No. 1 spot in the latest NAIA Women's Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Rating with 14 of 20 No. 1 votes. Marian (Ind.) made the biggest move up in the rating by eight spots to No. 14. Benedictine (Kan.), Rocky Mountain (Mont.) and Montana Tech all joined the Top 25 this week. Rating Methodology: * The rating is rated by a panel of head coaches represe  more

2024-25 NAIA Men's Golf Coaches' Top 25 - No. 2
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Nov. 1 -- The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics issued the following news release: Dalton State (Ga.) continues to hold the top line in the NAIA Men's Golf Coaches' Top 25, claiming 14 first-place votes. Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) takes over second, receiving the final five first-place votes. Keiser (Fla.) drops down one spot to third and Oklahoma City slots in fourth. SCAD Atlanta (Ga.) and Hastings (Neb.) are into the ranking this period. Rating Methodology   more

2024-25 NAIA Women's Golf Coaches' Top 25 - No. 2
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Nov. 1 -- The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics issued the following news release: Keiser (Fla.) stays atop the NAIA Women's Golf Coaches' Top 25, earning 13 of the 17 first-place votes. The other four are given to British Columbia who sits in second. SCAD Savannah (Ga.) and Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) stay third and fourth respectively, while Marian and Texas Wesleyan flip places at fifth and sixth. Pikeville (Ky.) and Faulkner (Ala.) move into the ratings after  more

Nonpartisan 'Defend the Black Vote' Program Launches Final Push in Campaign to Encourage 3.5 Million Black Men to Cast Ballots
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- People for the American Way issued the following news release on Oct. 31, 2024: In the last days before the November 5 election, People For the American Way Foundation's nonpartisan Defend the Black Vote campaign is making its final push to reach 3.5. million Black men, via direct peer-to-peer text messages, for voter turnout in 21 states -- Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Maryland, Michigan, Illinois, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Mis  more

Reporter Max Blau Explains Insurance Ghost Networks
COLUMBIA, Missouri, Oct. 31 -- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following Q&A on Oct. 30, 2024, with ProPublica reporter Max Blau: * * * Many of us have been there. You get a long list of providers from your health plan only to find that many lead to a dead end. Some don't take new patients or aren't actually part of the insurer's network. Others lack the required specialty. ProPublica reporter Max Blau recently wrote about how that bait-and-switch -- known as a ghost net  more

Washington University School of Medicine: Complexity of Tumors Revealed in 3D
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Nov. 1 (TNSres) -- The Washington University School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Maps of tumor 'neighborhoods' open door to future treatment strategies * * * A new analysis led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has revealed detailed 3D maps of the internal structures of multiple tumor types. These cancer atlases reveal how different tumor cells -- and the cells of a tumor's surrounding environment -- are organ  more