by Mike Lear | May 20, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
Two Republicans who have crossed party lines to work on Medicaid expansion say Governor Jay Nixon (D) needs to heed his own advice and work across lines to not veto the proposed transfer bill. They have written a letter to Nixon on the issue. Representative Jay...
by Mike Lear | May 15, 2014 | News
Missouri could become the third state in the nation to require a 72-hour wait for a woman wanting to have an abortion, under legislation that has been sent to Governor Jay Nixon (D). The bill, HB 1307, would triple the current 24-hour waiting period in Missouri. The...
by Mike Lear | May 7, 2014 | News
The state legislature is asking Missouri voters whether the Constitution should be changed to provide a stronger right to bear arms. The legislature has sent to the November ballot a proposal to define the right to bear arms in Missouri as “unalienable”...
by Mike Lear | May 1, 2014 | Education, News
The state House has approved a plan to change a 21-year-old law that lets students transfer out of failing schools into better ones. House Republicans pared back significantly a provision that would make private schools one of the places those students could go....
by Mike Lear | Mar 27, 2014 | News
The state House has approved a $26.6-billion budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The House’s proposal now goes to the Senate. Because legislative budget makers disagreed with Governor Jay Nixon (D) on an estimate of how much revenue Missouri will...
