by admin | May 16, 2010 | Politics / Govt
One of big priorities of the legislative session became a casualty of last-day efforts to provide financial incentives to keep car company jobs in Missouri. Tax Credit reform got shoved to the curb in the last 24 hours of the session when efforts intensified to pass a...
by admin | May 16, 2010 | News
A proposed swap: pension reform for economic development collapses on the final day of the legislative session when the Senate and House fail to reach agreement; failure that places jobs at risk in Kansas City. House leaders had been pushing the Senate to pick up and...
by admin | May 12, 2010 | Politics / Govt
The legislature has passed the budget, an autism measure and appears to be on the brink of getting ethics reform through. Governor Nixon reminds them they’re missing what — to him — is a top priority … jobs. The Governor has been pushing for...
by admin | May 11, 2010 | News
A leader in the Missouri House says Governor Nixon needs to spend less time holding news conferences in Kansas City and more time working with legislators at the Capitol. Governor Nixon takes a trip to Kansas City to tout an economic development bill seen as vital to...
by admin | Feb 18, 2010 | Business
An incentive program to lure more manufacturing jobs to Missouri and to help the state keep the jobs it has passed the House Thursday on a 134-to-17 vote. The bill now moves to the Senate. Rep. Jerry Nolte (R-Gladstone) says Missouri must compete with other states...