by Mike Lear | May 6, 2014 | News
The House-Senate budget conference committee has adopted most of the additional money for the Children’s Division within the Missouri Department of Social Services that had been proposed by Governor Jay Nixon (D) and the House. The Senate had removed the nearly...
by Mike Lear | Apr 29, 2014 | News
The Senate Appropriations Chairman says some of the money Governor Jay Nixon (D) and the state House proposed adding to the budget for the state Children’s Division might make the final legislative budget plan. The Senate Budget Committee didn’t follow the...
by Mike Lear | Dec 30, 2013 | News, Politics / Govt
The head of a House subcommittee on child abuse says the top issue he wants to deal with in the 2014 session is how the state’s child welfare caseworkers are trained. Representative Bill Lant’s (R-Pineville) subcommittee looks at the reporting and...