by admin | Jan 15, 2020 | Business, Crime / Courts, Education, Health / Medicine, News, Transportation
Missouri’s governor says infrastructure and workforce development will be two of his main themes during Wednesday afternoon’s State of the State Address in Jefferson City. The speech will begin at about 3. Governor Mike Parson (R) says the state is on the...
by Alisa Nelson | Jan 17, 2017 | Education, News
Governor Greitens (R) says Missouri’s budget is being drained by special interest tax credits and the faster-than-projected growth in healthcare spending, partially from Obamacare. Greitens is withholding more than $146 million in the current state budget. “I’m...
by Mike Lear | May 20, 2014 | Education, News
Governor Jay Nixon (D) says he will freeze another $35.1-million in education spending due to a continuing decline in revenue from lottery and gaming. Nixon says he will restrict the spending of $10.5-million for four-year higher education institutions and...
by Mike Lear | May 13, 2014 | Education, News
Governor Jay Nixon (D) has called on House and Senate lawmakers who have worked on a proposed fix to Missouri’s transfer law to remove language that would let local tax dollars pay for students to transfer to private schools. The legislative conference committee...
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...
