A Democratic lawmaker from central Missouri’s Columbia is accusing Republicans of rushing the state budget through the Missouri House. State Rep. Adrian Plank said lawmakers only had three hours to go over what changes the House Budget Committee made from the...
Missouri K-12 public school teachers might not get a base pay increase after all. The state House Budget Committee has removed Gov. Mike Parson’s plan to boost the minimum pay from the current $25,000 to $38,000 annually. Parson’s effort is part of his $47 billion...
To raise or not to raise? That is the question Missouri lawmakers are expected to decide about a state worker pay increase. Gov. Mike Parson wants the Legislature to boost the pay for all of Missouri’s roughly 50,000 state workers by the end of this month. His plan...
Missouri law can criminalize parents who fail to pay child support. The Missouri Public Defender System handles roughly 6,000 of these cases annually. During a state House Budget Committee hearing, System Director Mary Fox said handling those cases in civil court,...
The women’s prison in northeast Missouri’s Vandalia could have about half of its housing units permanently closed. Trevor Foley, with the state Department of Corrections (DOC), says Gov. Mike Parson’s new state budget proposal would make the change. Gov....
