by Mike Lear | Mar 17, 2014 | News
The State House has some messages concerning conservation issues to consider when it takes up debate of the budget next week. The proposed spending plan for fiscal year 2015 that came out of the House Budget Committee includes $6-million to back a state takeover of...
by Mike Lear | Mar 13, 2014 | News
The House Budget Committee has twice voted down expansion of Medicaid. The Committee voted to send to the full House its proposal for the budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. Representative Jill Schupp (D-Creve Coeur) offered a set of amendments to accept...
by Mike Lear | Jan 28, 2014 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine, News
After a Lee’s Summit woman was faced with a $500 fine for contempt of court for bringing her breastfeeding infant to jury duty, some called for a change in Missouri law to exempt breastfeeding women from jury duty.  The judge in that case has delayed fining her...
by Mike Lear | May 10, 2013 | News
Democrats in the state House have defended Governor Jay Nixon’s stance that the budget the legislature has sent him must results in cuts and layoffs, because it doesn’t fully fund the Division of Motor Vehicles. That budget includes only enough funding for...
by Mike Lear | Mar 27, 2013 | News
The House is poised to send the Senate a $25 billion budget that does not include Medicaid expansion. House Democrats offered several amendments that would have plugged the Governor’s proposal to expand Medicaid in Missouri back into the new state spending plan...