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New Nuclear Effort Unites Utilities, Government Leaders; Consumer Questions Remain
November 19, 2010 1 Comment
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A second nuclear power generating plant at the Ameren Missouri site in Callaway County is back on the front burner at the State Capitol. Gov. Jay Nixon Friday announced that a consortium of the state’s largest power companies will help Ameren with the cost of obtaining an “early site permit” from [...]
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Click here to listen to an audio story on the tax credit review commission’s progress. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The state tax credit programs of tomorrow will feature many differences from today’s programs if Gov. Jay Nixon and Missouri’s General Assembly support a raft of blue-ribbon recommendations heading their way. The Missouri Tax Credit Review [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — State public school budgets are certain to take a big budgetary hit in the fiscal year to come, and that could lead to uncertainty for local school districts about how much money they will receive from the state. That’s the conclusion of a Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education study [...]
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Exotic Businesses Suffer as New Legal Restraints Take Hold JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Â – A case questioning the validity of Missouri’s so-called “anti-porn bill” is presenting Cole County Circuit Court’s most senior judge with virgin legal territory. “I’ve heard about every constitutional complaint that you can imagine though the years…maybe I’m senile and don’t remember, but [...]
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Audio Story on Budget JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — With a giant hole in the upcoming state budget looming, a Missouri House committee will spend the next six weeks tearing the current budget apart trying to find efficiencies it can apply to the next budget. Starting Monday, eight Republicans and six Democrats who make up the [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — With the future of how big a role renewable energy will play in Missouri power company’s plans in the years to come, a member of the Public Service Commission is trying to get the stakeholders in the debate to come to an agreement. Commissioner Robert Kenney is chairing a series of [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Setting a conservative course for the next two years, Missouri Senate Republicans Thursday elected southeast Missouri Sen. Robert Mayer as President Pro Tem. Mayer, an attorney from Dexter, emerged as the favorite candidate of Senate conservatives who chafed under the leadership of Sen. Kevin Engler, R-Farmington, during his two-year term as [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Basking in the afterglow of an election that delivered an unprecedented GOP majority to the Missouri House, Republican lawmakers on Wednesday outlined a course and crew for the 2011 legislative session. “Last night was an historic night,” said newly appointed House Speaker Steven Tilley, R-Perryville. “A pickup of 17 seats, according [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A national wave of Republican sentiment flooded Missouri on Election Day, sweeping many incumbent Democrats out of office with it. The GOP retained control of the U.S. Senate seat held by retiring Sen. Kit Bond when Congressman Roy Blunt beat Secretary of State Robin Carnahan by more than a quarter million [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon COLUMBIA, Mo. — With enrollments in Missouri’s colleges and universities skyrocketing, and state funding issues uncertain, Gov. Jay Nixon said the time has arrived to look at new models for educating students. Announcing a $100,000 state infusion to support such efforts, Nixon told a group of provosts and academic [...]
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