by Mike Lear | Sep 9, 2014 | News
The state Attorney General’s Office has cast doubt upon whether the legislature can override Governor Jay Nixon’s cuts to the current year’s budget, but lawmakers say they’re going to move ahead as if they can. The legislature’s budget...
by Mike Lear | Sep 9, 2014 | News
The state legislature’s budget leaders say they have identified about 50 items that Governor Jay Nixon cut from the state’s current operating budget that they will recommend for veto override attempts. Those lines total about $40-million. Senate Budget...
by Mike Lear | Sep 8, 2014 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, News
A case filed by a Missouri lawmaker challenging the requirement that his state-sponsored insurance plan provide birth control coverage has been heard in a federal appeals court in St. Louis. Timothy Belz is an attorney for the Thomas Moore Society, a public interest...
by Mike Lear | Sep 8, 2014 | News
A special prosecutor says no charges will be filed against a Missouri trooper in connection with the drowning death of an Iowa man at the Lake of the Ozarks in May. The Kansas City Star reports Special Prosecutor Amanda Grellner agreed with a coroner’s jury that...
by Mike Lear | Sep 8, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
The State Auditor’s Office says Governor Jay Nixon violated the state Constitution when he withheld money in the Fiscal Year 2012 budget because the state brought in more revenue than needed to support that budget. “The Missouri Constitution says that the...