by Mike Lear | Mar 12, 2013 | News
The Revenue Department has explained to a House Committee why its fee offices around the state are scanning personal informaiton provided by Missourians seeking drivers and non-drivers licenses and concealed carry endorsements. Department Director Brian Long says...
by Mike Lear | Feb 26, 2013 | News, Politics / Govt
A House Republican plan to change Medicaid in Missouri into a more “market-based” system has been unveiled. GOP lawmakers have been developing it since December as an alternative to Medicaid eligibility expansion, as backed by Governor Jay Nixon....
by Mike Lear | Jan 28, 2013 | News
A House Committee has held its first hearing digging into the Quality Jobs Program. The House Committee on Government Oversight and Accountability was originally formed to study the failure of a project to bring a sucralose refinery and more than 600 jobs to Moberly....
by Mike Lear | Dec 26, 2012 | Crime / Courts, News
A state legislator is again offering a proposal to create a veterans court treatment program for eligible veterans going through the state’s court system. The program would be like drug courts, that challenge eligible accused persons to complete drug treatment...
by Mike Lear | Dec 10, 2012 | News, Politics / Govt
State house Republicans are working on their version of ethics legislation. House Speaker Tim Jones (R-Eureka) has been talking about ethics legislation since August. He favors a bill that passed out of the 2010 legislative session, the language of which was thrown...
