House sends $26.6-billion budget to Senate (VIDEO)
The state House has approved a $26.6-billion budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The House’s proposal now goes to the Senate. Because legislative budget makers disagreed with Governor Jay...
View ArticleHouse passes student transfer fix with scaled back private school option
The state House has approved a plan to change a 21-year-old law that lets students transfer out of failing schools into better ones. House Republicans pared back significantly a provision that would...
View ArticleState legislature asks voters to consider stronger gun rights
The state legislature is asking Missouri voters whether the Constitution should be changed to provide a stronger right to bear arms. The legislature has sent to the November ballot a proposal to define...
View ArticleBill to triple abortion waiting period sent to Gov. Nixon
Missouri could become the third state in the nation to require a 72-hour wait for a woman wanting to have an abortion, under legislation that has been sent to Governor Jay Nixon (D). The bill, HB 1307,...
View ArticleTwo House Republicans’ letter seeks to sway Nixon on transfer legislation
Two Republicans who have crossed party lines to work on Medicaid expansion say Governor Jay Nixon (D) needs to heed his own advice and work across lines to not veto the proposed transfer bill. They...
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