by Mike Lear | Mar 25, 2014 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
The Missouri House will debate the proposed budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 today. The proposal is split between two funds because the Governor and legislative budget makers didn’t agree on an estimate of revenue for fiscal year 2015. It would draw...
by Mike Lear | Mar 19, 2014 | News
A series of changes to the state’s Amber Alert system could be coming that would reduce the time it takes to issue an alert by 20 to 30 minutes, according to the program’s coordinator. One change that is expected to take place Wednesday was prompted in...
by Mike Lear | Mar 17, 2014 | News
The State House has some messages concerning conservation issues to consider when it takes up debate of the budget next week. The proposed spending plan for fiscal year 2015 that came out of the House Budget Committee includes $6-million to back a state takeover of...
by Mike Lear | Mar 14, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
The Missouri Housing Development Commission has approved a plan to replace grant funding lost by at least 15 domestic violence shelters in the state and other shelters served by a grant administered by MHDC. Under the plan the Commission has approved up to...
by Mike Lear | Mar 13, 2014 | News
The state House Budget Committee has voted to send to the full chamber its proposed spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The plan keeps Budget Committee Chairman Rick Stream’s (R-Kirkwood) plan to create a new surplus revenue fund and put in it...