The state House has rejected a Democratic proposal to allow Missourians to vote early. Missouri voters can cast absentee ballots before an election Tuesday, but must swear to a reason they can’t come to the polls on election day. Democrats including...
The state budget proposed by the House Budget Committee Chairman would decrease state aid for the University of Missouri System by more than $8-million dollars. Some state lawmakers continue to criticize the University for its response to protests last fall and what...
How available videos from police dash and body cameras should be is being debated again in the Missouri House. Discussion of expanding the use of body and other cameras by law enforcement accelerated after the shooting death of Michael Brown, Junior, in August, 2014,...
State House Republican budget leaders believe Governor Jay Nixon’s (D) estimate of how much state revenue will grow is too optimistic, so they’re dusting off an approach they took two years ago. In 2014, Republican budget leaders thought Nixon’s...
A Moberly resident’s “hobby” has resulted in a call to the Highway Patrol’s bomb squad. The above was the sound last night in a park in Moberly when authorities detonated an explosive material that, they’re told, some residents made for a...
