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State of the State Strikes Optimistic Tone Even in the Face of Spending Cuts
By TIM SAMPSON Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – As he presented a budget outlining more cuts for the state government, Gov. Jay Nixon took an optimistic tone about the state economy, declaring that Missouri has finally started moving out from under the “shadows of the recession.” During his annual State of the State [...]
By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday announced it will invest $400 million in its assembly plant in the Kansas City suburbs to build a new generation of vehicles when it moves its current Escape operations to a new plant in Kentucky. The move saves jobs at [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — State Sen. Chuck Purgason, R-Caulfield, is ready to take on the Republican Senate establishment again. In a fundraising letter to supporters, Purgason said he has decided to run for a leadership position in the Missouri Senate. On Tuesday, he confirmed he is a candidate for the top elected position in the [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon COLUMBIA, Mo. – The governor’s new steering committee on economic development received a tall order at the group’s inaugural meeting on Thursday. Gov. Jay Nixon asked the 40-member group to work closely with regional planning teams to outline six to eight strategic objectives for driving growth in existing and [...]
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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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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri House of Representatives Tuesday continued to add on to a bill the governor’s office said is already beyond the legal scope set for the special session. The latest addition would renew the Homestead Preservation Tax Credits. The underlying bill – and the primary [...]
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Uncertainty Defines First Day of Special Session By DICK ALDRICH and REBECCA TOWNSEND Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — An auto manufacturing incentives bill is virtually assured passage in the Missouri House. But the fate of a bill reducing retirement benefits for future state employees is not as certain. In the Senate, the opposite [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo – The Missouri General Assembly reconvenes Thursday for what’s officially termed an “extraordinary” session, but the first day of the session could look quite different depending on which house of the legislature is under observation. Both the House and Senate will convene at noon in their [...]
Continue reading …Special Session Must Include Wider Industry Considerations, Republicans Say
June 17, 2010 No Comment
By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – As Gov. Jay Nixon looks for a special legislative session to stimulate in-state auto manufacturing jobs, Republican lawmakers seek to widen the economic development net. As Ford Motor Co. (F) mulls cutting a few thousand workers and closing its manufacturing plant in Claycomo, Mo., other [...]
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