by Mike Lear | May 11, 2012 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
Some say the way the House and Senate budget conferees compromised to fund the blind medical subsidy fund won’t pass constitutional muster. The compromise was to include over $24 million dollars for the fund and to add language to the budget that restricts...
by Mike Lear | Mar 21, 2012 | News
Legislation to put $4 million towards helping some of the state’s blind transition off of a supplemental program eliminated in the House budget proposal has advanced out of Committee. The bill is sponsored by Budget Committee Chairman Ryan Silvey (R-Kansas...
by Mike Lear | Mar 1, 2012 | News, Politics / Govt
The House Budget Committee Chairman is proposing wiping out the Governor’s cut to higher education, in part with money that supports some of the state’s blind. Chairman Ryan Silvey (R-Kansas City) proposes filling back in the $106 million dollar cut the...
by Mike Lear | Jan 26, 2012 | Business, News, Politics / Govt
The automotive industry incentive component of the Governor’s job creation strategy has found its backers in the House and Senate, and they come from both sides of the political aisle. In his State of the State Address and stops around the state, Governor Jay...
by Mike Lear | Jan 17, 2012 | Business, Education, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
The Governor took a mostly rallying approach to his State of the State Address. Jay Nixon began by highlighting Missouri’s response to the disasters in the state last year. He keyed on the inspirational words of one Joplin tornado survivor, “always take...