by admin | 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 admin | 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...
by admin | Apr 10, 2014 | News
Governor Jay Nixon (D) is lending his voice to those concerned about the removal from the budget of $4.6-million for the state Children’s Division by the Senate budget committee. Advocates for children and prevention of abuse say the money would have supported...
by admin | Apr 7, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kurt Schaefer (R-Columbia) says its time the State Historical Society of Missouri had a better building, and he wants to make sure it gets done this year rather than hope the legislature will pass a capital improvements bill. So,...
by admin | Mar 28, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
The House has a $26.6-billion spending plan for the coming fiscal year, and now that plan is in the hands of the Senate. Because legislative budget crafters and the Governor’s office couldn’t agree on an estimate of how much state revenue will roll in, in...
