by admin | Jun 25, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
The chairman of the House and Senate budget committees are asking the Highway Patrol to restrict the use of state-owned aircraft as a cost-saving move, in light of state revenue coming in below projections. The two Republicans raise the issue in continued criticism...
by admin | Jun 25, 2014 | News
Republican budget leaders are slamming Governor Jay Nixon (D) for the actions he has taken with the state budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. They say he is using “inflated” figures to estimate the impact of tax break bills passed on the final...
by admin | May 23, 2014 | Education, News
The House sponsor of the proposed change to Missouri’s student transfer law says a special session to revisit the issue would be a wasted effort. Representative Rick Stream (R-Kirkwood) and other lawmakers who worked on the proposed transfer law fix are waiting...
by admin | May 14, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
State House Republicans are criticizing Governor Jay Nixon (D) for the use of more than $390,000 in the past three fiscal years’ budgets for the Department of Social Services to pay dues to the National Governors Association. More than $206,000 of that has come...
by admin | May 13, 2014 | Education, News
Governor Jay Nixon (D) has called on House and Senate lawmakers who have worked on a proposed fix to Missouri’s transfer law to remove language that would let local tax dollars pay for students to transfer to private schools. The legislative conference committee...
