by Mike Lear | Feb 25, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
The House Committee on General Laws spent an hour-and-a-half Tuesday afternoon hearing five different proposals that all take different approaches at ethics reform. Lawmakers left that hearing appearing to agree that ethics reform is needed. Governor Jay Nixon and...
by Mike Lear | Feb 24, 2014 | News, Sports Features
The state House and Senate honored the Mizzou volleyball team today for its 35-1 SEC Championship season. Both chambers presented the team and its coach with resolutions marking their success in 2013. In a statement, head coach Wayne Kreklow called the...
by Mike Lear | Feb 20, 2014 | Education, News
Governor Jay Nixon (D) has issued a letter to members of the House Budget Committee regarding its vote to take $44.1-million in general revenue for K-12 funding out of the Fiscal Year 2014 supplemental budget. Nixon says the budget for the current fiscal year...
by Mike Lear | Feb 20, 2014 | Education, News
A day after one House Committee proposed budgeting for tin foil hats to make a statement about opposition to Common Core Standards for public education, another House Committee will hear a proposal to bar the implementation of those standards in Missouri. The House...
by Mike Lear | Feb 20, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
House Republicans accuse Governor Jay Nixon (D) of turning the effort to replace the state’s only maximum-security psychiatric hospital into a “political football.” Nixon spoke to mental health advocates today at the Capitol that the House Budget...
