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Sedalia Democrat
April 28, 2018
To that end, Sedalia is set to host the Missouri Preservation Conference May 2-4 in an effort to educate residents and visitors about the importance of ... The host city must be part of a Certified Local Government, which is a city government in the state that recognizes and protects historic resources byÃâà...
Kansas City Star
April 28, 2018
The Missouri attorney general's office has turned over evidence to the Cole County prosecutor accusing Gov. Eric Greitens of knowingly filing false campaign finance disclosure reports to the Missouri Ethics Commission, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation. Filing a false campaignÃâà...
AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
April 28, 2018
... government to place signage in our sacred places prohibiting activity we may not want to allow on our own private property,” said Carlson, whose archdiocese includes nearly 500,000 Roman Catholics. During a question-and-answer session a few minutes later, Carlson — whose fellow Missouri CatholicÃâà...
Kansas City Star
April 28, 2018
Missouri lawmakers are responding to the FBI's probe into college basketball's ugly underbelly. A bill moving through the state legislature attempts to expand the legal definition of a sports agent, increasing agents' responsibilities to notify universities of relationships with student-athletes and upping theÃâà...
STLtoday.com
April 27, 2018
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. • The Missouri Department of Natural Resources plans to return $575,000 it received for two new state parks to the federal government. ... Spokeswoman Connie Paterson says the DNR believes the money should be used to clean up lead mine sites in eastern Missouri. She says theÃâà...
Kansas City Star
April 27, 2018
Last summer, Gov. Eric Greitens summoned Missouri legislators to Jefferson City for a special session with the sole purpose of considering new regulations on abortion clinics. Out of that session came tighter controls on a procedure that in Missouri had become the most common method of terminating aÃâà...
Sacramento Bee
April 27, 2018
The State Highway Patrol and Missouri Department of Transportation are under scrutiny because officials at the agencies had served on the board of a ... and a revolving door of state officials who later went to work for HELP Inc. and then continued to work with former co-workers in Missouri government.
Columbia Daily Tribune
April 27, 2018
The State Highway Patrol and Missouri Department of Transportation are under scrutiny because officials at the agencies had served on the board of a ... and a revolving door of state officials who later went to work for HELP Inc. and then continued to work with former co-workers in Missouri government.
Kansas City Star
March 30, 2018
Missouri is in the midst of a grand experiment: How effectively can it operate without a governor? Turns out, the answer is pretty darn well, thank you very much. As the General Assembly moves through the second half of its 2018 session, lawmakers have done something remarkable. They're taking on bigÃâà...
Missourinet.com
March 12, 2018
Nasheed testified. The data compilation will also make it easier for government agencies to communicate and find answers quicker. However, witnesses from the Missouri Bar and the Missouri Attorney General's Office worry about confidential data and the disruption of transferring all the data to this newÃâà...
ThinkProgress
March 12, 2018
In Hawley's 2016 campaign for attorney general, he promised to use the office to fight against government regulations. “We're 47th out of 50th in Missouri in job growth, economic growth, and that's because we are incredibly overregulated,” he asserted in a campaign video — an odd claim to make givenÃâà...
Springfield News-Leader
March 11, 2018
Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, and Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, wrote a letter this month to the Health and Human Services Department and the Labor Department, imploring both to provide answers about the legality of Anthem's emergency room program. Anthem rolled out the policy in Missouri lastÃâà...
STLtoday.com
March 11, 2018
On this Sunshine Week, Missouri government is operating under a cloud of darkness. Last week, a House committee led by state Rep. Jay Barnes, R-Jefferson City, started the important and unprecedented action of investigating Gov. Eric Greitens, also a Republican, for allegedly committing crimes orÃâà...
Virginian-Pilot
March 10, 2018
MARSTON, Mo. (AP) — A new aluminum smelter will open in the Missouri Bootheel region in May, replacing roughly half of the jobs lost when another smelter shut down two years ago. Magnitude 7 Metals plans to hire 450 people for its plant in the former Noranda Aluminum smelter in New Madrid County,Ãâà...
Springfield News-Leader
March 10, 2018
In a week when three Mizzou students running for student government positions dropped their campaigns after student journalists uncovered a history of racist, homophobic and otherwise offensive comments posted to Twitter, a Twitter account associated with a member of Missouri State University'sÃâà...
FederalNewsRadio.com
March 9, 2018
NEW MADRID, Mo. (AP) — A Swiss-based company will open an aluminum smelter in the Missouri Bootheel region, creating up to 400 jobs in one of the state's most impoverished areas. Gov. Eric Greitens, U.S. Rep. Jason Smith and other political leaders will announce details about the new Magnitude 7Ãâà...
Kansas City Star
March 9, 2018
Refusing to release information about a virus that killed a state employee last year has landed a Missouri state department in hot water, with legislators promising to make "painful cuts." Lawmakers on the Missouri House Budget Committee have put the Department of Health and Senior Services in theirÃâà...
Columbia Missourian
March 8, 2018
Missouri Sunshine Law is very favorable to requesters of government information. The presumption under the Sunshine Law is that records and meetings of public governmental bodies are open. Section 610.022.5 flatly states: “Public records shall be presumed to be open unless otherwise exemptÃâà...
Springfield News-Leader
March 8, 2018
For a public entity like Missouri to have results that show "relatively low citizen focus," Erdmann said, "is not a good thing." And this stands in contrast to results from the same survey that show employees, by and large, care about the fate of state government, are willing to work hard at their jobs and find theirÃâà...
The Advocate
March 7, 2018
A man police described as a domestic extremist who was training others in his anti-government ideology was arrested over the weekend in Tangipahoa Parish. Phillip Guidry, a convicted felon, was detained on a warrant out of Missouri by Ponchatoula police who learned during their investigation that heÃâà...
California Democrat
March 7, 2018
Nearly 100 government students from California, Jamestown and Tipton high schools learned about county government first-hand Feb. ... This year, delegates to Legion's Missouri Boys State and the American Legion Auxiliary's Missouri Girls State were invited to lead a mixer at the beginning of the day.
fox2now.com
March 7, 2018
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) _ Three candidates for University of Missouri's student government have dropped out after the discovery of offensive tweets by them. The Columbia Missourian reports that Blaine Thomas and Claire Jacobs separately announced Tuesday they were quitting the race for MissouriÃâà...
Gasconade County Republican
March 7, 2018
ast Tuesday I came to work early wearing a grey suit, white shirt and a red tie. This is not my normal attire for any working day, including Tuesdays. My routine was altered on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock when I received a phone call from the executive director of the Missouri Press Association, MarkÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 1, 2018
“This is basically big government prohibiting little government from prohibiting things,” said Sen. Jason Holsman of Kansas City. Indeed, the General Assembly's appalling habit of usurping local decisions is well-established. Lawmakers have prohibited cities from raising their minimum wages or enactingÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 1, 2018
Greitens retaining a lobbyist is an unusual turn of events for a governor whose successful 2016 campaign was based on the premise that lobbyists and insiders were corrupting state government. “I will defeat you,:" he said in a speech kicking off his campaign. "I will expose your lies. I will root out yourÃâà...
fox4kc.com
March 1, 2018
“I don`t think a taxpaying citizen would need an audit to know that`s ridiculous and wasteful,” Galloway said. “I think from the information that you have provided, information that I am aware of through the citizen petition and others, there are a lot of concerns generally about how Clay County government isÃâà...
Kansas City Star
February 28, 2018
Kansas City could be the epicenter of a national political earthquake in November if voters on either side of the state line decide to elect a political independent in a top race. Missouri hasn't sent an independent to the U.S. Senate in its nearly two centuries as a state, but Kansas City attorney Craig O'DearÃâà...
Kansas City Star
February 27, 2018
Yet, all but one of the 27 gun bills currently in the Missouri Legislature were introduced before the shooting in Parkland, Florida. Arguments among the lawmakers often boiled down to whether Missouri's government should get out of the way of local leaders and property owners who want to regulate gunsÃâà...
Kansas City Star
February 27, 2018
A Missouri House committee made up of five Republicans and two Democrats will investigate allegations that Gov. Eric Greitens threatened to release a nude photograph of a woman with whom he was having an affair to keep her from talking about it. The governor was indicted last week by a St. LouisÃâà...
Missourinet.com
February 26, 2018
“It shouldn't be up to the government to make that decision for them.” A non-partisan grassroots group of mothers demanding solutions to address the country's culture of gun violence sees Taylor's legislation much differently. Missouri Moms Demand Action organizer Kim Westerman of the St. Louis chapterÃâà...
STLtoday.com
February 21, 2018
JEFFERSON CITY • Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley says his office will review discrimination and harassment policies across state government and provide suggestions for best practices. The move comes as Missouri has faced multiple sexual harassment scandals in recent years, from legislativeÃâà...
Kansas City Star
January 10, 2018
Gov. Eric Greitens has admitted he had an extramarital affair in 2015, during a time when he was exploring a campaign for governor. But he is denying allegations that he tried to blackmail the woman into silence. The admission was inspired by a report by St. Louis CBS affiliate KMOV. The report featuredÃâà...
Kansas City Star
December 31, 1999
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley's office has cleared Gov. Eric Greitens and his staff of wrongdoing in connection with the use of a text-erasing phone application. The finding should worry Missourians who care about open government. And the legislature should now step forward to prohibit the useÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Eric Greitens of Missouri, who is charged with invasion of privacy in connection with an extramarital affair, faced a revolt by week's end from many fellow Republicans who demanded that he resign and prepared to take steps that could lead to impeachment. Mr. Greitens, just over a year into his first term,Ãâà...
Kansas City Star
December 31, 1999
“The people of Missouri deserve better than a reckless liberal prosecutor who uses her office to score political points. .... A former Democrat and Navy SEAL, Greitens ran as a conservative, and emphasized a message that state government was teeming with “corrupt career politicians,” “well-paid lobbyists”Ãâà...
