by admin | Mar 4, 2014 | Education, News
The State House has endorsed supplemental budget proposal that includes half of the amount Governor Jay Nixon (D) proposed for K-12 education and money to keep the doors open at a St. Louis-area school district for the rest of the school year. House Budget Committee...
by admin | Mar 3, 2014 | News
Missouri budget planners learned in September the state had lost $70-million in tobacco settlement money due to a court ruling regarding enforcement of tobacco laws in 2003. House Budget Committee Chairman Rick Stream (R-Kirkwood) says more losses could be coming...
by admin | Feb 24, 2014 | Health / Medicine, News
House Budget Committee Chairman Rick Stream (R-Kirkwood) and other House Republicans Monday unveiled a proposal to pay for a new state mental hospital at Fulton to replace the Fulton State Hospital. Stream says his proposal would save taxpayers about $120-million in...
by admin | 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 admin | 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...
