Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas has drawn the ire of some Missouri Republicans over his invitation to migrants to move there and find work. Lucas was quoted in a Bloomberg article saying that migrants with legal clearance to work in the United States were welcome to...
A Democratic lawmaker from central Missouri’s Columbia is accusing Republicans of rushing the state budget through the Missouri House. State Rep. Adrian Plank said lawmakers only had three hours to go over what changes the House Budget Committee made from the...
A Missouri Senate committee with a say in the state’s piggy bank has sifted through Gov. Mike Parson’s request for $5.8 billion in extra cash during the current state budget year. Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee did the work while some of them donned...
The Secretary of State wants to do away with Missouri’s presidential preference primary (PPP), saying it would save taxpayers millions of dollars. Republican Jay Ashcroft made his comments about the PPP, while testifying last week before the House Budget...
Seven members of the House Budget Committee are going to take a closer look at areas where the budgets for the Departments of Mental Health, Health and Senior Services and Social Services might be reduced. The Appropriations Committee covering those agencies...
