by admin | Feb 14, 2003 | News
A compromise in the Missouri House gives Governor Bob Holden $50-Million more to help with the current fiscal year’s budget. The House has overwhelmingly approved a measure to turn a third of the state’s national tobacco settlement money into bonds to...
by admin | Feb 12, 2003 | News
The Missouri House has passed a tobacco securitization bill that would give Governor Holden $100-Million to deal with the current fiscal year’s budget crisis. It would then take $300-Million that would be used for the 2004 fiscal year, which begins July 1st....
by admin | Feb 12, 2003 | News
Majority Republicans in the Legislature say they’ll give Governor Bob Holden about one third as much money as he says he needs to avoid more budget cuts in the last quarter of this fiscal year. Bethany Senator David Klindt is sponsoring a bill authorizing bonds...
by admin | Feb 11, 2003 | Politics / Govt
Governor Bob Holden is dismissing the Republican plan to deal with the current fiscal year’s budget shortfall as insufficient. Holden says the GOP proposal falls short of what is needed to prevent cuts to education. He insists he will be forced to cut more than...
by admin | Feb 10, 2003 | Politics / Govt
A new statewide survey shows Missourians would rather use tobacco settlement money to avoid a state spending shortfall than increase taxes or make more cuts in services and programs. The latest Zogby poll for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says Missourians vote for...
