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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 [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – In a bid to protect autoworkers’ jobs, Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday called state lawmakers back to the Capitol for a special legislative session. The session will resurrect a debate that gripped the legislature in the final moments of it regular 2010 session, which adjourned [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon COLUMBIA, Mo. – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said Tuesday he is ready to call a special session of the legislature to pass economic incentives for the Ford Motor Co. (F) plant at Claycomo, Mo., as soon as lawmakers come up with a way to pay for the incentives. “‘If [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – While many lawmakers decried the dangers of texting while driving early in the 2010 General Assembly, the legislature adjourned without any floor debate on a wholesale texting-while-driving ban. Initial committee hearings for banning bills looked promising for the measure. A House safety committee and Senate [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – One of the main accomplishments of the just-completed legislative session touted by its leaders is an ethics reform bill. The chairman of the House of Representative committee that drew up ethics legislation does not share in that sense of accomplishment. As Rep. Kevin Wilson, R-Neosho, [...]
Continue reading …Office of Administration Press Release For Immediate Release                                                                                 May 18, 2010                                                                                                             Missouri State Budget Director Linda Luebbering announced today that an estimated $350 million will need to be reduced from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget approved by the legislature last week. Although the legislature was able to trim the budget, additional reductions are necessary due [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Passing the budget and capstone bills on ethics and autism coverage is not enough to keep at least one lawmaker from calling legislators back to the Capitol for a special session to advance stalled economic development efforts. Rep. Jerry Nolte, R-Gladstone, sent a letter to [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – – Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, has a new job in the private sector. Shields, whose 20-year term in the Missouri General Assembly ends in January, will be chief operating officer of health-care provider TMC Lakewood. The appointment, announced Monday, builds [...]
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May 14, 2010 By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Legislature ended its 95th General Assembly with a busy day of bill passing, but what didn’t pass made most of the news at the Capitol. As the final moments of the session approached, House members sought to strike a deal [...]
Continue reading …May 6, 2010 By DICK ALDRICH and REBECCA TOWNSEND Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Both houses of the General Assembly on Thursday passed and sent to the governor a capital improvements bill directing federal economic stimulus funds to a number of building projects around the state. The bill allots more than $1.6 billion [...]
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