JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House of Representatives continues to work its way through legislation that would require voters to produce a photo identification before casting a ballot. Slightly differing versions of the legislation have been debated every year in the state legislature since at least 2005. It has passed both houses of the [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Conservative Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says next Tuesday’s Missouri primary will show how he could do in a primary race with no Newt. Speaking to a news conference in Hannibal Friday morning, Santorum said he can beat Romney one-on-one if Gingrich is out of the picture. “When we go head [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Secretary of State’s office has issued a cease and desist order against a Springfield businessman. According the Secretary of State’s Securities Division, James Mitchell Guillen raised more than $200,000 dollars from four elderly investors in the Springfield area. Guillen billed himself as a financial advisor and took the money [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Secretary of State Carnahan is shutting down investments in a company that is supposedly researching a new way of generating energy. The cease and desist order for David Grammer of Macon and Jana Baxter in Columbia stems from more than $2 million in investments made by up to 30 people in [...]
Continue reading …Absentee Balloting Underway By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The November general election is underway. Absentee ballots are available across the state at any county clerk’s office, or they may be requested through the mail. County election officials report voters began coming through their doors today. To obtain an absentee ballot [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri political leaders past and present paid tribute Wednesday to former governor Warren E. Hearnes, unveiling a bust to be placed in the State Capitol’s Hall of Famous Missourians. Hearnes, who passed away in 2009, was Missouri’s first two-term governor. Please visit our main news site, www.monewshorizon.org, to read the complete [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A controversial measure to increase renewable energy projects in and near Missouri was stripped from the final version of the state’s new renewable energy law. The Missouri Public Service Commission on Tuesday voted 3-2 to send the voter-mandated renewable energy standards to Secretary of State [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Nearly two years after Missourians voted to create a renewable energy standard, the details of making the rule a reality languish in a maze of governmental rulemaking procedure. Thursday, members of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR), a legislative committee that oversees state rulemaking, [...]
Continue reading …By REBECCA TOWNSEND Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Groups seeking to tweak state law in their favor will flock to the secretary of state’s office this weekend to present ballot initiative petitions bearing thousands of signatures needing official approval. Secretary of State Robin Carnahan will keep her office open until 5 p.m. this [...]
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