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 Alisa Nelson | Jan 16, 2017 | Education, News
Governor Eric Greitens’ $146 million in budget restrictions announced Monday include $80 million in higher education. The budget withholdings could affect tuition at Missouri’s colleges and universities. House Minority Leader Gail McCann Beatty (D-Kansas City) hopes...
by Mike Lear | Nov 20, 2013 | Health / Medicine, News
A House Medicaid Committee will meet again once a draft of its report for the legislature is ready. Unlike most committees, Chairman Jay Barnes (R-Jefferson City) says the report the House Interim Committee on Medicaid Transformation will issue won’t have...
by Mike Lear | Sep 13, 2013 | News
A key African-American state legislator says she’s satisfied with the State Fair’s handling of a skit mocking the President at a rodeo. Clown Tuffy Gessling says he put a President Barack Obama mask on another clown posing as a dummy and the crowd was...
by Mike Lear | Sep 11, 2013 | News
Republicans hold a supermajority in the House, but still need Democrat support to overturn the vetoes of some legislation in the veto session that begins today. The key issue to be debated is HB 253, that would cut Missouri income taxes. Governor Jay Nixon says it...