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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The same state Senator who sponsored last year’s repeal of the Missouri’s corporate franchise tax is looking to cut corporate taxes even more. Senate Bill 661, from St. Louis area Republican Eric Schmitt, would reduce the corporate income tax rate from 6 1/4 percent to 3 1/8 percent over five years. [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – After nearly a year of legal wrangling, State Auditor Tom Schweich has reached a settlement with the Missouri Bankers Association that will allow his office more access to bank examination records while still preserving confidentiality. Schweich said the deal would allow his office to make sure the Missouri Division of Finance [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The number of candidates filing for state office in Missouri in 2012 marked a continuing trend of political involvement since 2008. The filing period for candidates wanting to appear on the August primary ballot came to an end this week, with total of 576 candidates submitting the necessary paperwork to seek [...]
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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. — 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Politicians are in a budget cutting mood in Washington D.C. and Missouri farmers hope the the axe doesn’t cut too deeply. Last week, House Budget Committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, proposed cutting farm programs by $30 billion over the next ten years. The cuts would come generally from reductions and [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — In a struggling economy, where every job is precious, the letters B.R.A.C. hold a special terror for Missouri. They stand for Base Realignment and Closure, and this week, the Pentagon came before Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Subcommittee on Military Readiness and Management Support with those awful letters on their minds and [...]
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House passes budget JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House of Representatives Thursday passed its version of a $24 billion state budget that restores a $106 million cut to higher education funding, includes a slight increase in the Elementary and Secondary education budget, finds a new source of revenue for veterans programs, and includes a [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — In the wake of last month’s Missouri Supreme Court decision that struck down the legislature’s ethics reform bill of 2010, the fate of any future such legislation is uncertain at the State Capitol. Earlier this week, the House Democratic Party filed legislation that is identical to ethics legislation that originally passed [...]
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