by Mike Lear | Jun 25, 2014 | News
Republican budget leaders are slamming Governor Jay Nixon (D) for the actions he has taken with the state budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. They say he is using “inflated” figures to estimate the impact of tax break bills passed on the final...
by Mike Lear | May 6, 2014 | News
The House-Senate budget conference committee has adopted most of the additional money for the Children’s Division within the Missouri Department of Social Services that had been proposed by Governor Jay Nixon (D) and the House. The Senate had removed the nearly...
by Mike Lear | May 6, 2014 | Health / Medicine, News
The state legislature appears to be moving forward with Governor Jay Nixon’s (D) plan to fund the rebuilding of Fulton State Hospital. The House-Senate budget conference committee Tuesday morning adopted language for the final legislative budget proposal to pay...
by Mike Lear | Apr 29, 2014 | News
The Senate Appropriations Chairman says some of the money Governor Jay Nixon (D) and the state House proposed adding to the budget for the state Children’s Division might make the final legislative budget plan. The Senate Budget Committee didn’t follow the...
by Mike Lear | Apr 24, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
The state legislature has sent to Governor Jay Nixon (D) a roughly 600-page proposal to update Missouri’s criminal code. The proposal was passed out of both chambers Thursday with wide majorities favoring it. The bill, whose development began five years ago with...
