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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. –- Tea party influence may be difficult to gauge among individual races, but political experts predict the movement will likely stoke turnout for Tuesday’s referendum vote on health care reform. Most pundits predict tea party activists will fuel an easy passage of Proposition C, a ballot measure aimed at stopping the federal [...]
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While two candidates for U.S. Senate are getting the lion’s share of media play, several contenders have been beating the state’s highways to spread their messages from door to door. Missouri News Horizon tracked down several of the people attached to the names that will be listed on the ballots election officials will distribute in [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The decorated war veteran wakes up in the back of his van and pushes down the road. Ahead, another stretch of highway or rural road. Another town. Another 200 hands to shake. Meetings with any kind of organized group he can find, constantly pushing his [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The state senator who stalled the special legislative session by preventing progress of an economic incentive bill for the state’s automotive industry has been relieved from his position as chairman of a powerful oversight committee. Senate President Pro Tem Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, on Monday [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – What if the governor called a special session, and nobody came? That’s a question being asked around the State Capitol these days. With legislation proving unpopular with House and Senate members on the agenda, the special session of the legislature will crawl into its third [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. –- A state senator stalled the progress of a proposed law to offer incentives to the Ford Motor Co. (F) in exchange for continued investment in its Missouri workforce. Sen. Chuck Purgason, R-Caulfield, chair of the Senate Government Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee, on Thursday abruptly [...]
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