One of Governor Mike Kehoe’s top priorities this legislative session, scrapping the state income tax, is getting traction in the Missouri House this week. HJR 173 and HJR 174, two identical resolutions, were heard together on Wednesday by the Missouri House Committee...
A recently-formed Missouri House caucus will be looking specifically at future challenges facing the state. It’s chaired by State Rep. Colin Wellenkamp, R-St. Charles. He gave Missourinet a sample of what types of future issues they’ll tackle. “It can involve things...
The Missouri Legislature has two weeks left in its regular session and a top priority affecting the state’s families and workforce hangs in the balance. Gov. Mike Kehoe and several other lawmakers in both parties want to pass a childcare tax credit package this...
Missouri’s new paid sick leave requirements have begun but the fight to change those requirements is not over this legislative session. From mid to late April, State Senate Democrats successfully blocked two attempted votes on a bill that would roll back the paid sick...
The Missouri House of Representatives has a new leader – Republican Jonathan Patterson of Lee’s Summit. Alisa Nelson talks with him about life in South Korea, then in Blue Springs, and now in the Missouri Capitol.
