by Mike Lear | Dec 16, 2013 | Health / Medicine, News
The head of the Department of Mental Health’s Behavioral Health Division is optimistic about the Governor’s proposal that could accelerate the replacement of the only maximum security psychiatric unit in the state. Governor Jay Nixon announced last week...
by Mike Lear | Mar 13, 2013 | Legislature, News
A House budget subcommittee has passed a proposal to have the state issue $1.2 billion in general obligation bonds to pay for projects at colleges and universities, state parks and buildings and other infrastructure needs. The measure next goes to the full House...
by Mike Lear | Mar 11, 2013 | Legislature, News
The House Appropriations Committee on Infrastructure and Job Creation on Tuesday will consider the first in-writing list of projects that could be covered by a proposed bond issuance. A resolution will be offered by its co-chairman, Representative Lincoln Hough...
by Mike Lear | Jan 28, 2013 | Legislature, News
The man who was governor the last time Missouri passed a large bond proposal says lawmakers must focus on identifying needs and how they will be met, if they want to get one passed now. Kit Bond says when a bond package was passed under his administration, the state...
by Mike Lear | Jan 24, 2013 | Legislature, News
The effort to create a bonding proposal in the House is afoot. A bipartisan effort has been announced to create what proponents bill as potentially the biggest jobs package in state history. House Speaker Tim Jones (R-Eureka) says what it would support and other...
