Sunshine Law to be Updated

Missouri’s Sunshine Law will undergo an update, but an effort to make it easier to prosecute violators has become a victim of the legislative process. Just how easy it would be to prosecute someone for violating the state open meetings and open records law...

House Committee Approves Adding Cell Phones To No Call List

A House committee has voted 20-0 to send a bill to add cell phones to Missouri’s No Call list to the full House. The Committee on Communications, Energy and Technology is calling for the full House to follow the lead of the Senate, which approved the measure in...

Missouri Southern Students Offered Courses from Up North

Students at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin could soon be taking graduate programs from Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville. They’ll be taking the courses through television or over the Internet. The agreement between the schools lets...

Science And Technology Conference Opens At Fort Leonard Wood

A conference attempting to match-up Missouri businesses and universities with the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security begins today at Fort Leonard Wood. It’s called the second annual Science and Technology Conference, an opportunity for federal...

Attorney General Slams TV Merger

A proposed merger of satellite television providers has drawn opposition from Attorney General Jay Nixon. Echostar Communications owns Dish Network and wants to buy Hughes Electronics, owner of DirecTV. Nixon objects, saying that would create a monopoly in the direct...