Robert Baer
UPDATE: The County Council voted 4-3 to put the half-cent transit sales tax proposal on the April 6 ballot.
EARLIER: Metro would have to cut half of its transit service if St. Louis County voters don’t approve a half-cent sales…
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Robert Baer
UPDATE: The County Council voted 4-3 to put the half-cent transit sales tax proposal on the April 6 ballot.
EARLIER: Metro would have to cut half of its transit service if St. Louis County voters don’t approve a half-cent sales…
[...]Missouri Department of Revenue recently ruled that Yoga studios were subject to the state's 4% sales tax. It's made national news now with this story by the LA Times, featuring local studio Marbles Yoga.
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Colleen Wasinger
St. Louis County Councilwoman Colleen Wasinger, R-Town and Country, says Metro should have more oversight if county voters approve a half-cent sales tax for the transit agency on April 6.
Wasinger wants the county council to require that Metro do…
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Charlie Dooley
MetroLink expansion – a major selling point in past transit tax campaigns – is taking a back seat in the campaign for a half-cent sales tax that is likely to be on the April 6 ballot in St. Louis…
[...]Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson said he’ll fight to keep current levels of funding for education when lawmakers return to Topeka next month for another round of budget cuts.
Parkinson, speaking to the Overland Park Chamber of Commerce Tuesday, said he’s looking at several ways to balance the budget without cutting education [...]
Jim Lembke
Skip Mange
The campaign for a sales tax for an emergency communications system in St. Louis County is not over although 67.74 percent of county voters approved a 0.1-cent sales tax for the system on Nov. 4.
State Sen. Jim Lembke,…
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Speaker Ron Richard (R-Joplin), the Most Powerful Man In Missouri, doesn't have any idea why Birther Rep. Tim Jones (R-Eureka) said he told the FBI to take their questions about Jones' sales tax bill to Richard and Majority Floor Leader Steve Tilley.
House Speaker Ron Richard (R, [...]
The Associated Press reports today that the FBI contacted Birther Rep. Tim Jones (R-Eureka) "about a month ago" to ask about Majority Leader Steve Tilley's blocking of legislation that would have resolved a sales tax issue for Missouri municipalities.
The FBI has been asking questions [...]
ZING!
Asked if he supported a sales tax hike to shore up Springfield's police and fire pension fund, newly minted Democratic State Senate candidate Michael Hoeman noted he wasn't a city resident.
But Hoeman went on to say he would've voted for the hike if he could've.
*WATCH Q & A ABOVE*
"I think" [...]
FIREFIGHTERS UNION BACK DIXON IN THE 30th
***WATCH TAX Q & A ABOVE***
Republican State Senate candidate Bob Dixon declined to say whether he voted to raise Springfield's sales tax to help fund the pensions of firefighters, on the same day he received the endorsement of the city's local firefighter union.
Dixon, who [...]
