by Mike Lear | May 13, 2013 | News
The Governor says the priorities of legislative Republican leadership are “out of whack.” Governor Jay Nixon (D) is critical of the state legislature’s approval of proposals to cut individual and corporate income taxes and repeal a tax break for...
by Mike Lear | Apr 30, 2013 | News
Key Republicans in the House and the Senate are squaring off over the next state spending plan days before the two chambers will meet in conference to work out their differences on it. House budget makers want to stick to the Consensus Revenue Estimate, an estimate...
by Mike Lear | Mar 13, 2013 | News
A House budget subcommittee has passed a proposal to have the state issue $1.2 billion in general obligation bonds to pay for projects at colleges and universities, state parks and buildings and other infrastructure needs. The measure next goes to the full House...
by Mike Lear | Mar 5, 2013 | News
The state House Committee preparing a more than $1 billion bond proposal will consider the first on-the-record list of projects that might support, next week. In its hearing today it was announced that Representative Lincoln Hough (R-Springfield) will offer that list....
by Mike Lear | Feb 8, 2013 | Health / Medicine, News
Legislators in the state House and Senate and Governor Jay Nixon have all mentioned Fulton State Mental Hospital in listing priorities for proceeds from the proposed issuance of bonds. Now its administrators have explained the Department of Mental Health’s plan...
