by Mike Lear | Jan 29, 2014 | News
The House Budget Committee is not likely to put $14-million dollars in the supplemental budget toward a new state mental hospital at Fulton as Governor Jay Nixon (D) has proposed, but the House will support a way to pay for it this year. That’s according to...
by Mike Lear | Jan 24, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
The House Budget Committee will hold a hearing next week to discuss whether Governor Jay Nixon’s proposed plan to fund a new Fulton State Hospital meets constitutional muster. Nixon proposes using about $189 million dollars in appropriation bonds to pay for...
by Mike Lear | Jan 23, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
House Republicans continue to criticize Governor Jay Nixon’s proposed budget, saying he has promised 140-million dollars in funding that they don’t believe the state has. House Budget Committee member Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia) voiced those concerns in a...
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 | Dec 9, 2013 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
Governor Jay Nixon has announced a proposal to pay for construction of a new Fulton State Hospital using appropriation bonds. Nixon also announced he would release $11-million that he had withheld in a supplemental budget bill that included a total of $13-million for...
