We start the last month of the year with a lot of crops still in the fields and with renewal of an emergency declaration that could help get them to market. The state transportation department has extended until December 22nd its emergency trucking declaration so farmers can exceed regular limits to move their crops. [Read more...]
Ethics complaints filed against congressional candidate Bill Stouffer
November 30, 2009 By
The race for Missouri’s 4th District Congressional race is heating up beyond the campaigning. A Warrensburg man has filed complaints with both the Federal Election Commission and the Missouri Ethics Commission regarding the campaign practices of Republican candidate Bill Stouffer, a State Senator from Napton.
Central Missouri University political science major Chris Brockway of Warrensburg, who identifies himself as a Democrat and a supporter of Congressman Ike Skelton, had the complaints notarized and filed on Monday. He alleges several violations of federal and state election and ethics laws. Included in the allegations is a complaint that Stouffer’s state committee, Friends of Bill Stouffer, paid $7,500 in consulting fees to Axiom Strategies of Kansas City. Brockway contends the consulting work had nothing to do with a possible statewide political campaign by Stouffer, but was actually an effort to test the waters for a congressional run. [Read more...]
Highway Patrol: Lowest number of Thanksgiving weekend fatalities in years
November 30, 2009 By
Two people were killed on Missouri roads over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Highway Patrol Captain Tim Hull says that’s way down from the 14 deaths during last year’s holiday counting period, but that the two fatal crashes this year offer a sobering reminder… both victims were not wearing seatbelts.
Hull says in one of the accidents, the driver who was wearing a seatbelt survived, but the passenger who was not buckled in was killed. One fatal crash happened in Springfield … the other in West Central Missouri’s Benton County. [Read more...]
Once ignored Fourth Congressional District attractive to Republicans
November 30, 2009 By
One of the most interesting of Missouri’s 2010 congressional races is the Republican contest in the 4th District, which stretches from mid-Missouri, south of the Missouri River, west to the Kansas border. While four Republicans – State Senator Bill Stouffer, former State Representative Vicky Hartzler, Brian Riley, and James Scholz – have announced their intentions to go after the GOP nomination to take on longtime Democratic Congressman Ike Skelton , only Stouffer and Hartzler had raised any money, according to the most recent Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings. [Read more...]
Transportation chief won’t endorse any one tax
November 30, 2009 By
State Transportation Director Pete Rahn warns that highway construction will come to an end and some road maintenance work will go unmet if Missourians don’t approve higher taxes for transportation. He just won’t endorse any particular tax. [Read more...]
