by Mike Lear | Jun 26, 2012 | News
The House Budget Committee Chairman accuses Governor Jay Nixon of “political grandstanding” in saying the legislature’s budget wasn’t balanced and withholding $15 million from it. Representative Ryan Silvey (R-Kansas City) says the...
by Mike Lear | Jun 25, 2012 | Education, News, Politics / Govt
For the third year, Governor Jay Nixon is restricting money from higher education. The Governor announced on Friday $15 million in cuts that he called a first step in righting a budget he says is more than $50 million out of balance. The largest single item in that is...
by Mike Lear | Feb 22, 2012 | News
The Nixon Administration has laid out its ideas for filling in the $460 million dollar hole in the fiscal year 2013 budget to the House Budget Committee. The gap in the budget had been $500 million but a recent mortgage settlement secured by the Attorney...