by Mike Lear | Jun 20, 2014 | Military, News
Legislation has been signed into law by Governor Jay Nixon (D) that is meant to protect families of fallen Missouri soldiers from protests at funeral services. House Bill 1372 makes it a class “B” misdemeanor to protest within 300 feet of the site of a...
by Mike Lear | May 5, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
Efforts to impeach Governor Jay Nixon (D) will not be brought up for a vote in the House Judiciary Committee, its chairman told Missourinet Monday afternoon. Representative Stanley Cox’s (R-Sedalia) committee held two hearings in the last two weeks on three...
by Mike Lear | Apr 30, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
The House Judiciary Committee has held its final hearing on 3 impeachment filings against Governor Jay Nixon (D). Committee Chairman, Representative Stanley Cox (R-Sedalia) says he will now poll his members to see whether they think those filings should come to a...
by Mike Lear | Apr 24, 2014 | News, Politics / Govt
The state legislature has sent to Governor Jay Nixon (D) a roughly 600-page proposal to update Missouri’s criminal code. The proposal was passed out of both chambers Thursday with wide majorities favoring it. The bill, whose development began five years ago with...
by Mike Lear | Apr 24, 2014 | News
Some of the lawmakers and others who worked on the proposed update of the criminal code sent to Governor Jay Nixon (D) Thursday have been honored in a piece of art to mark its passage out of the legislature. The poster features Senators Jolie Justus and Bob Dixon,...