JEFFERSON CITY — Senate President Pro Tem Charlie Shields unveiled new ethics legislation today. But a key plank looks a lot like old ethics legislation that courts have twice thrown out.
Shields wants to bar lobbyists from contributing to legislators’ and…
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UPDATED: The governor’s office says it’s too late to put the 56th District seat on the Feb. 2 ballot. The final certification date for that ballot was Nov. 24. April 6 is a more likely election date.
JEFFERSON CITY — The…
[...]JEFFERSON CITY — Hunting with a former state representative yesterday on his Pulaski County farm, Gov. Jay Nixon shot a deer.
The outing with Democrat Bill Ransdall was Nixon’s second try. He spent opening day of deer season hunting in Clark…
[...]JEFFERSON CITY | Gov. Jay Nixon bagged a deer yesterday on a hunting excursion in Pulaski County.
Following the hunt, the governor donated his doe to Share the Harvest, a public-private partnership that provides meat to food banks, homeless shelters and feeding centers.
He encouraged other hunters to do the [...]
Missouri is going after big bucks to finance significant reform in education. 300 educators, business people, lawmakers, students, and others were in Jefferson City today to help develop the state's plan to reform schools and qualify for the funds.
JEFFERSON CITY | What do you get when you add strong opinions to ample interstate highway access?
Incendiary billboards.
For the second time in the last year, provacative signs have cropped up along Interstate 70 near Kansas City.
This one seems to advocate against paying taxes, encourages voters to toss out incumbents and, [...]
JEFFERSON CITY | It's been a bad, bad few months for Missouri House and Senate Democrats.
State Rep. Don Calloway, a St. Louis Democrat, turned up on the front page of the Post-Dispatch this morning in handcuffs, and has apparently been charged with second-degree robbery. He's just the latest of several [...]
While speaking about bipartisan efforts to boost the state and local economy at a luncheon Friday in St. Charles County, Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon and Republican County Executive Steve Ehlmann recalled an across-party-lines effort they took part in two decades ago in Jefferson City.
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“I got to know the…
[...]JEFFERSON CITY — Investment staff at the state retirement system would not get bonuses in years when the system’s investments lost money under a plan that tentatively advanced today.
The board of the Missouri State Employees Retirement System voted to develop…
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Kelly, left, and Martin
Should lawmakers be given an open ended ticket to Jefferson City? Or should their stay be capped at a set number of years?
Those are the questions that will be argued tonight by a pair of politicians from…
[...]The police department hounded him, they called him Mr. Smith
They got him on conspiracy, they were never sure who with.
"What time is it?" said the judge, to Joey when they met
"Five to ten," said Joey. The judge says, "That's exactly what you get."
- "Joey" by Bob Dylan.
JEFFERSON CITY | OK, [...]
JEFFERSON CITY — An obituary of former Jefferson County Sheriff Buck Buerger in today’s paper omitted the name of the young lawyer who beat Buerger in 1986, launching a lengthy political career.
Jay Nixon was the upstart contender for the state…
[...]JEFFERSON CITY | Gov. Jay Nixon is announcing a deal to cut higher education funding but freeze tuition for most students in a flyaround today.
Under the arrangement reached with university leaders, higher-ed funding for the 2010-11 budget year would be cut a relatively modest 5.2 percent -- about $42 million [...]
Kinder: "I Was The First To Tweet It!"
Thankfully, no one was actually hostage this week in Jefferson City, and local law enforcement agencies had a chance to practice their craft. We also got to see how Peter Kinder leads -- or fails to lead -- [...]
JEFFERSON CITY — The brouhaha over Katie Steele Danner’s two roles — and two salaries — in state government appears to be subsiding.
The Missouri Tourism Commission chose Danner on Tuesday as its new executive director, at a salary of $75,000. Then on Friday,…
[...]JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Sen. Gary Nodler is resigning as chairman of the Appropriations Committee to focus on his congressional campaign.
The Republican from Joplin has led the Senate budget-writing panel the past two legislative sessions and has served on it all seven years he has been in the [...]
JEFFERSON CITY — State Rep. Allen Icet, R-Wildwood, took advantage of a bit of a strange interview given by Thomas Schweich yesterday and announced today that he would serve out a full term as auditor if he were elected.
Schweich and Icet…
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Bogdon profiles are always the best: "Dave Coffman Wants to Represent Lee’s Summit in Jefferson City" [...] JEFFERSON CITY | State Rep. Denny Hoskins reports he has paid off the $20,316-tax bill owed by his property management company. Ruthane Small, the Johnson County, Mo., collector, confirms that her office received his payment this afternoon.
Hoskins, a Warrensburg Republican and professional accountant, as recently as yesterday said [...]
JEFFERSON CITY — A group seeking to change Missouri law so that employees can only form unions on secret ballots have survived a legal challenge to their proposed ballot initiative.
Cole County Circuit Court Judge Richard Callahan ruled today against a union-backed…
[...]Updated at 5:30 p.m.: Hoskins has paid the back taxes.
JEFFERSON CITY | State Rep. Denny Hoskins, a Warrensburg Republican, owes more than $20,000 in back taxes on rental property he owns with his brother.
Hoskins, a first-term lawmaker, acknowledged the tax bills in an interview with Prime Buzz on [...]
JEFFERSON CITY — U.S. Senate candidate Robin Carnahan, a Democrat, continued her campaign strategy of avoiding direct positions on legislation under debate in Congress yesterday.
Carnahan, the Secretary of State, was asked at a news conference…
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Correction: The following blog post is in error. Kinder's tweets were not removed from his Twitter account, merely overlooked for very lame technological reasons by a careless reporter. Apologies to Kinder and his staff.
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JEFFERSON CITY | Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder has caught some [...]
JEFFERSON CITY — A relatively eventful meeting of the Missouri Veterans Commission ended up escaping media scrutiny yesterday because of the hostage situation that turned out to be a hoax in the building next door.
Shortly after the commission meeting started,…
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TWEETER KINDERThe Lieutenant Governor attempts to break news on TWITTER regarding a potential hostage situation in Jefferson City, but later deletes a bunch of his posts on what turned out to be a misunderstanding."Sharpshooters on roof of Jefferson bldg. Hostage situation unfolding in Governor Office bldg." [...] 
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JEFFERSON CITY — A shakeup at the Missouri Tourism Commission has put an ally of Gov. Jay Nixon in charge and left Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder on the outs.
The commission voted today to hire Katie Steele Danner as the new…
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