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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo — A key Missouri House leader says he doesn’t have the votes yet to pass the chamber’s wide-ranging education bill. House Majority Floor Leader, Rep. Tim Jones, R-Eureka, said during a press conference Thursday that the majority Republican caucus in the House is divided on House Bill 1735, a piece of legislation [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo — Veteran state legislator Rep. Chris Kelly, D-Columbia, says there’s no time like the present for the state to borrow money to fix and build state buildings. For the fourth year in a row, Kelly is proposing a statewide ballot issue to get permission from the voters of Missouri to allow the [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo — A Cole County judge has thrown out ballot language for a proposed constitutional amendment that would require Missouri voters to produce a photo identification of some kind before being allowed to cast a ballot. Circuit Court Judge Patricia Joyce ruled that the summary of the amendment that was to appear on [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Gov. Jay Nixon has broken ground for a new bridge that should help the flow of passenger rail traffic across the state. The new bridge on the Union Pacific rail lines across the Osage River east of Jefferson City will alleviate the last bottleneck along the line between Jefferson City and [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo — As the state Senate prepares to come up with its version of the state budget, Governor Nixon wants to add another $68 million to the pot. State Budget Director Linda Luebbering announced Wednesday that the state had applied for an additional federal grant for mental health services under Medicaid. When the [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Members of a Missouri House committee Wednesday cast a wary eye on a new form of Pseudoephedrine that, its manufacturer says, can not be made into methamphetamine. Highland Pharmaceuticals President and CEO James Bausch, showed members of the House Crime Prevention Committee the company’s new product called Tarex, that the company [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — On the final day that candidates could file for state representative and state senate seats, the Missouri Supreme Court has upheld the Missouri House of Representatives’ district boundaries. The House map had come into question by a group of citizens, including two former members of the Missouri House who claimed that [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Thousands of Missouri citizens flocked to the State Capitol Tuesday in a show of force on separate issues. Inside the Capitol, more than a thousand protesters ringed all three levels of the rotunda in the center of the building, as religious leaders from the Baptist, Assemblies of God, Lutheran and Catholic [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Canadian oil pipeline company is coming to Missouri, but it’s not the much-discussed Keystone XL project. Monday night, Enbridge, Inc. of Calgary, Canada announced it was partnering with Houston, Tx. based Enterprise Products LP to lay a pipeline to carry oil across Missouri, in a path running roughly diagonally from [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — One of the leaders of the Missouri House of Representatives says he’s concerned that filing for election for state offices will close Tuesday without definitive rulings on the maps of districts candidates are supposed to represent. The Missouri Supreme Court has heard arguments on a congressional district map and on a [...]
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