* Parkville Missouri's Government Website

Other Drey beneficiaries have included his alma mater Antioch College ; John Burroughs School, which uses Drey land for biology and outdoor education courses ; the Government Accountability Project ; and Coalition for the Environment, Missouri's first independent citizens ' group to address a broad range of environmental issues.

The Federal program eventually should have a favorable impact on Missouri's depressed areas, and in the long run that will benefit St. Louis as well.

He discovered Southwest Missouri's drama program and studied there with actors Kathleen Turner and Tess Harper.

Holden repeatedly defended Missouri's Medicaid program from cuts by the Republican legislature.

Other organizations include: Prep News, Missouri's first weekly high school newspaper ; Sisyphus, a literary magazine published in February and April ; " Gadfly ", a culture and satire magazine with an accompanying television program ; and the Dauphin Players, a theatre group that stages four productions each year.

Geneva Overholser, head of the University of Missouri's Washington journalism program, resigned from the Foundation's board in protest.

Missouri Scholars Academy, or MSA, is a three-week residential summer program held on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Missouri for 330 of Missouri's top rising high school juniors.

The program is based on the premise that Missouri's gifted youth must be provided with special opportunities for learning and personal development in order for them to realize their full potential.

The seizure, which was the first skirmish in the state during the war, eventually led to the eviction of Missouri's elected governor and has sometimes been called " Missouri's Fort Sumter "

In 2001, Holden called a special session to create Missouri's Senior Rx Program.

By writing an essay in high school called " Prevention and Cure of Tuberculosis ", Warrick won a contest to be Miss Jubilesta, Missouri's paid ambassador to New York City.

The University of Missouri's Institute for Continental Climate Viticulture and Enology ( ICCVE ) conducts research on best winemaking and grape growing practices and how they impact the growth of the wine industry in Missouri and the Midwest.

The Wall Street Journal wrote " If the recent slugfests have proven anything, it's that Missouri's courts are every bit as hung up in politics as they are in other states.

The song is played by the University of Missouri's Marching Mizzou at every home football game to a unique marching style in 3 / 4 time.

Missouri's lower state taxes on gasoline and cigarettes are the primary draw, as are the seasonal fireworks tents that spring up in the area during the summer.

Le Page's description of Moncacht-Apé's route across the continent, which neglects to mention the need to cross the Rocky Mountains, may be the source of Lewis and Clark's mistaken belief that they could easily carry boats from the Missouri's headwaters to the westward-flowing Columbia.

Canoeing and fishing are popular on the Eleven Point River, which is Missouri's only National Wild and Scenic River.

Clay was instrumental in the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which allowed Missouri's admission as the 24th state.

The Potosi Correctional Center, which opened in 1989, housed Missouri's death row and the state's executions were handled at the prison until 2005.

The city is also home to the Webster County Museum and the Missouri Walk of Fame, which is Missouri's version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

They had four children: Russ Carnahan, a member the U. S. House of Representatives for Missouri's 3rd District ; Tom Carnahan, founder of Wind Capital Group, which builds wind farms ; Robin Carnahan, Missouri Secretary of State ( 2004-present ); and Roger " Randy " Carnahan, who piloted the plane and perished in the same crash that killed his father.

However, the eastern portion of Kansas along the Missouri River was as suitable for slave-based agriculture as the nearby " black belt " of Missouri in which most of Missouri's slaves were held.

It also includes the northwest suburbs of Kansas City, a small area of Kansas City proper, the cities of St. Joseph, Mound City and Maryville, Missouri, as well as Kansas City International Airport and almost all of Missouri's portion of Interstate 29, save the small portion which runs concurrently with Interstate 35 in Clay County.

Following Missouri's lead, several other jurisdictions, all of which were among the 22 that already were using all three components of the UBE, are expected to adopt that examination.

Fearing Missouri's tilt to the South, William S. Harney, the Federal commander in Missouri struck the Price-Harney Truce on May 12, 1861, which affirmed Missouri's neutrality in the conflict.

Although it is often stated that certain trails began in certain cities on the Missouri River, emigrants following any of the three trails typically left from one of three " jumping off " points on the Missouri's Steamboat serviced river ports: Independence, Missouri or Saint Joseph, Missouri, or Council Bluffs, Iowa ( Once known as Kanesville, Iowa until 1852 ; after river dredging in the early 1850s, the latter town at the Missouri-Platte confluence became the most common departure point since it was close in proximity to the River Plattealong which the eastern trails ascend to South Pass above Fort Laramie ).

Clay is also the founder of the William L. Clay Scholarship and Research Fund, which awards college scholarships to high school seniors living in Missouri's First Congressional District.

The attack on August 21, 1863, targeted Lawrence due to the town's long support of abolition and its reputation as a center for Jayhawkers and Redlegs, which were free-state militia and vigilante groups known for attacking and destroying farms and plantations in Missouri's pro-slavery western counties.

The complex also includes the 45-story Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center ( which was Missouri's tallest building when built ), a Westin hotel, and two upscale residential apartment skyscrapers.

By the time of Missouri's statehood in 1821, the horses of the state were known for their unique gait, which was useful in the rocky terrain of the Ozark Mountains.

Anderson was the Grand Marshall at Missouri's 2002 Homecoming football game, in which Missouri beat the University of Kansas.

This is regarded as the biggest victory in Missouri's history, which also occurred in the best season in Missouri's history.

The Army of Missouri traces its roots to the Missouri State Guard, which was created in 1861 under Sterling Price to enforce Missouri's official stance of " armed neutrality " in the conflict, while formally remaining in the Union.

John Ross was the Democratic candidate for U. S. Congress in 1998 in Missouri's 2nd congressional district, billing himself as a " Pre-Roosevelt Democrat ," which, as he defined it, was " a Democrat without the Socialism.

Missouri's capital is Jefferson City.

Holts Summit is located northeast of Jefferson City, Missouri's state capital.

Jefferson College Library serves as a selective federal depository for Missouri's Third Congressional District through its participation in the Federal Depository Library Program.

This is an example of the long-running struggle between Missouri's ( post-Jun 17, 1861 ) Unionist government in Jefferson City and Claiborne Fox Jackson's ( and later Thomas C. Reynolds ') secessionist government-in-exile for control of symbols of Missouri governmental legitimacy.

The section through northern Jefferson County, Missouri was the site of numerous fatal traffic accidents due to the narrow road being unable to handle increased traffic from " population growth ", and was referred to as " Blood Alley " and " Missouri's Most Dangerous Highway " ( and was featured in an Reader's Digest article on dangerous roads ).

* June 3 – The traditional date of Kansas City, Missouri's founding.

Riverside, Illinois, Radburn, New Jersey, and Kansas City, Missouri's Country Club District are other early examples of planned communities.

The 3-Trails Crossing Memorial Highway is the official name for a highway interchange in south Kansas City, Missouri that was once considered one of Missouri's most congested locations.

Skyline Elementary School was presumed to be named as such because you could see the Kansas City, Missouri's skyline from the area around the school at the time.

In May 2008, the Maker's Mark Bourbon House & Lounge opened in Kansas City, Missouri's downtown Power & Light District.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief already provided a Chicago to Kansas City route and the state of Missouri's " Missouri Service " only funded the extension of the Ann Rutledge to provide daily service between Kansas City and St. Louis with continuing services to Chicago via Springfield.

Currently, the largest scoreboards are located at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, and Kansas City, Missouri's Kauffman Stadium.

* Kansas City, Missouri's downtown freeway loop

He represented Missouri's 6th Congressional District, which encompasses northwestern Missouri, including a portion of Kansas City north of the Missouri River and the city of Saint Joseph.

In January 2012, the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission approved the use of Missouri Route 110 to include all of Missouri's part of the Chicago-Kansas City expressway and to correspond to Illinois 110 from Hannibal, MO to Chicago.

It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 24 ( virtual channel 5. 1 via PSIP ) from a transmitter on East 31st Street in Kansas City, Missouri's Union Hill section ( adjacent to the studios of PBS member station KCPT ).

It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 31 ( virtual channel 29. 1 via PSIP ) from a transmitter at the East 23rd Street / Topping Avenue intersection in Kansas City, Missouri's Blue Valley section.

It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 18 ( or virtual channel 19. 1 via PSIP ) from a transmitter located near 23rd Street and Stark Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri's Blue Valley section.

Owned by not-for-profit broadcasting entity Public Television 19, Inc., KCPT maintains studios located on East 31st Street in Kansas City, Missouri's Union Hill section ( adjacent to the transmitter tower of CBS affiliate KCTV ).