by Alisa Nelson | Jan 17, 2017 | Education, News
Governor Greitens (R) says Missouri’s budget is being drained by special interest tax credits and the faster-than-projected growth in healthcare spending, partially from Obamacare. Greitens is withholding more than $146 million in the current state budget. “I’m...
by Alisa Nelson | Jan 16, 2017 | Education, News
Missouri’s four-year colleges and universities will by far receive the biggest blow of Republican Governor Eric Greitens’ $146.4 million in additional spending restrictions announced Monday. About $56 million will be slashed from core funding for four-year...
by Mike Lear | Feb 14, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
Reporter Mike Lear interviews Representative Stanley Cox (R-Sedalia) about the status of the House’s work to rewrite the state’s criminal code, with particular focus on what it might mean for various drug offense penalties and whether he thinks it is the...
by Mike Lear | Apr 26, 2013 | Crime / Courts, News
A federal appeals court says the state law keeping protests at least 300 feet from a funeral is constitutional, but says language that would have kept protests even further away is too vague and too great a burden on free speech. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...