by Mike Lear | Jun 20, 2014 | Military, News
Legislation has been signed into law by Governor Jay Nixon (D) that is meant to protect families of fallen Missouri soldiers from protests at funeral services. House Bill 1372 makes it a class “B” misdemeanor to protest within 300 feet of the site of a...
by Mike Lear | Jun 20, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
The Republican Speaker of the Missouri House says recent problems with the Veterans Health Administration support the stance his caucus has taken against Medicaid expansion. Tim Jones (R-Eureka) has been opposed to using federal dollars to expand eligibility for that...
by Mike Lear | Jun 19, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
The Missouri Democratic Party hopes to take some of the seats currently held by a large Republican majority in both chambers of the state legislature. Chairman Roy Temple says there is a real opportunity for his party to make headway in those races. One issue that he...
by Mike Lear | Jun 18, 2014 | News
Governor Jay Nixon (D) has launched the development of a comprehensive State Energy Plan. He has written an executive order that will have the Economic Development Department’s Division of Energy take public opinions for a report due at the end of May, 2015....
by Mike Lear | Jun 18, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
Missouri has carried out the execution of 46-year-old John Winfield for the murders of two women in St. Louis County 18 years ago. Winfield received a lethal injection of pentobarbital at 12:01 Wednesday morning and was pronounced dead at 12:10. Winfield appeared to...
