While speaking about bipartisan efforts to boost the state and local economy at a luncheon Friday in Cottleville, 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 governor…

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Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday endorsed a request by Steve Ehlmann, the Republican St. Charles County executive, for an additional $100 million in federal economic stimulus grants to complete the final nine-mile segment of the Page Avenue extension.

The extra money would…

A key Missouri Department of Transportation committee earlier this week signed off on a $43 million package to take the Page Avenue extension (Highway 364) westward to just beyond Mid Rivers Mall Drive by 2012.

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That’s in addition to $45 million…

The Page Avenue extension (Highway 364) would be taken westward to beyond Mid Rivers Mall Drive by the fall of 2012 under a new funding plan pieced together by St. Charles County and Missouri Department of Transportation officials.

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Under the plan, the state would…

The St. Charles County Council has approved a $2 million loan to state transportation officials to get design work started on a further westward extension of Page Avenue. 

This stretch would take the road, also known as Highway 364, from west…

The use of $43 million in federal stimulus money to extend Highway 364, also known as Page Avenue, from west of Harvester Road to Central School Road has gotten the OK of a regional planning agency.

The board of the agency,…

The Post-Dispatch’s Bill Lambrecht has an article on earmarks on today’s front page. It deals mostly with differing positions by Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond and Sen. Claire McCaskill.

On the right side of the story, there’s a list showing some local projects…

More than $8 million in road projects across St. Charles County are among the 75 St. Louis area projects that will be funded with federal economic stimulus money allocated Wednesday by a regional planning agency.

Here’s the local list approved by the…