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April 27, 2010 By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – One day after the House of Representatives’ Rule Committee voted to send legislation on ethics reform back to its original committee for reworking, Missouri Democrats invoked a procedural rule to move the bill and a companion ethics bill directly to the House [...]
Continue reading …April 22, 2010 By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Spurred by a deepening decline in state revenues, Gov. Jay Nixon Thursday announced another round of withholdings from the current fiscal year’s state budget. And sources at the Capitol say there may be more to come before the end of the fiscal [...]
Continue reading …April 22, 2010 By REBECCA TOWNSEND Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Abortion laws in Missouri may become stricter and state oversight of education leaner under proposals debated Thursday in the State Senate. Education Oversight Streamlined After a protracted battle over the details of how many members would comprise a new streamlined educational oversight [...]
Continue reading …Governor Joins Chorus Calling For Reformed Tax Incentives; House Leadership Stalls
April 21, 2010 No CommentApril 21, 2010 By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Surrounded by education officials from college presidents to local school board members, Gov. Jay Nixon on Wednesday called on the General Assembly to enact legislation to cap and roll back tax-credit programs. While strategic use of tax incentives plays a role in [...]
Continue reading …April 16, 2010 By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A clashing of wills is unfolding among two branches of the Missouri state government, and a third may be called to step in. At issue is the direction of education dollars in the supplemental budget for Fiscal Year 2010. On Thurs., April [...]
Continue reading …April 14, 2010 By REBECCA TOWNSEND Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The state is one step closer to finalizing a budget for fiscal year 2011 after Missouri’s senators spent more than 10 hours engaged in debating proposed allocations and cuts. The proposed budget brought to the floor for debate by Senate Appropriations Committee [...]
Continue reading …April 13, 2010 By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Legislation backed Governor Nixon limiting tax credits is languishing in a House committee without much hope of ever coming to a vote. Republican state senators and Democratic House members say some kind of legislation dealing with tax credits is necessary to help [...]
Continue reading …April 8, 2010 By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The bill to make adjust the current year’s state budget to account for revenue shortfalls cleared the General Assembly. The House approved the supplemental budget by a vote of 96-51 on Thursday. It now heads to Gov. Jay Nixon’s desk for final [...]
Continue reading …By JoBeth Davis Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Five bills heard in committee this week, all over different subjects, take aim at what their sponsors believe are growing problems within the state. Last session, three members of the General Assembly resigned after pleading guilty to various crimes including obstruction of justice and bribery. [...]
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