by Alisa Nelson | Jun 13, 2017 | Health / Medicine, News
Sen. Ryan Silvey, R-Kansas City, could be the only Missouri GOP legislator to publicly condemn Republican Governor Eric Greitens for his special session approach. Silvey, who’s the Senate Appropriations Committee vice chairman, tells Missourinet there are more...
by Mike Lear | Feb 5, 2014 | News
Three bills will be heard in two legislative committees today that aim to end the so-called “border war” between Missouri and Kansas over jobs. All three bills would bar the issuance of certain business incentive programs to businesses that move from...
by Mike Lear | Nov 13, 2013 | News
Governor Jay Nixon has outlined his plan to end the shuffling of jobs across the Missouri-Kansas Border in pursuit of incentives meant for the creation of new jobs. Step one is for he and his counterpart, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, to put moratoriums on incentives...
by Mike Lear | Sep 12, 2013 | News, Politics / Govt
Two state lawmakers want to ask voters whether the power of governors to withhold money should be changed. Representative Todd Richardson (R-Poplar Bluff) says questions regarding the limit of that power have remained unanswered for too long. “Everybody, I...
by Mike Lear | Jul 22, 2013 | News
Missouri’s Safe Havens for Newborns Act was passed in 2003 and has given parents up to 5 days in a newborn’s life to drop that child off at a fire or police station or hospital, if they decide they can’t care for that child. A law signed by Governor...
