by Mike Lear | Feb 5, 2014 | News
The House Committee on General Laws has given its approval to a proposed change to Missouri’s Constitution regarding the power of a governor to restrict money in the state budget. The committee passed the proposal that would ask voters to give the legislature...
by Mike Lear | Feb 4, 2014 | News
House legislation that would cut business taxes is ready for floor debate, but that won’t be happening this week. House Bill 1253 sponsored by Representative T.J. Berry (R-Kearney) would cut taxes on business income reported by individuals by 50 percent while...
by Mike Lear | Jan 31, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
Governor Jay Nixon (D) has announced he has set August 5 as the date for special elections to fill three vacant House seats. The elections will fill seats representing areas including in St. Louis County left vacant by the resignation of Representative Steve Webb, in...
by Mike Lear | Jan 29, 2014 | News
The House Budget Committee is not likely to put $14-million dollars in the supplemental budget toward a new state mental hospital at Fulton as Governor Jay Nixon (D) has proposed, but the House will support a way to pay for it this year. That’s according to...
by Mike Lear | Jan 28, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt
Governor Jay Nixon has denied a clemency petition for 56-year-old Herbert Smulls, scheduled to be executed early tomorrow by lethal injection for the 1991 murder of a St. Louis County jewelry store owner. In a statement, Nixon says he has reviewed Smulls’ case,...
