by Mike Lear | Sep 15, 2014 | News
A recount of the votes cast in August for and against the so-called “Right to Farm” amendment to Missouri’s Constitution is complete, and it confirms the measure did pass. The margin narrowed, from the issue passing by 2,490 votes to 2,375. The issue...
by Mike Lear | Sep 15, 2014 | News
It’s been ten years ago, Monday, that Missouri closed down its historic state prison. Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City had been in operation for 168 years and was the oldest operating prison west of the Mississippi, when its last inmate was...
by Mike Lear | Sep 13, 2014 | News
The latest inductee into the Hall of Famous Missourians is actually a Virginia native, who became famous while living in St. Louis and fighting for the right to vote for women. Virginia Louisa Minor organized and became president of the Woman Suffrage Association of...
by Mike Lear | Sep 12, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
Governor Jay Nixon has released another $22-million dollars of the money he had been withholding in the state budget, while announcing new withholdings of more than $54-million dollars, in part, tied to the cuts he had made in the budget that the legislature...
by Mike Lear | Sep 12, 2014 | News
One backer of a proposed change to the state Constitution hopes Missouri voters were paying attention during this week’s veto session. Poplar Bluff Republican Todd Richardson sponsored the resolution that became Amendment 10 on the November ballot. It would give...