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12.04.2009 3:54 pm

Missouri retirement chief gets $14,453 bonus

Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau
Findlay

Findlay

JEFFERSON CITY — Gary Findlay, executive director of the Missouri State Employees Retirement System, is getting an early Christmas present.

The board recently gave Findlay a $14,453 check as incentive pay for his work this year. The bonus equals about 6.4…

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12.03.2009 1:54 pm

Senate powers-that-be to converge on the Chase

Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau
The Chase

The Chase Park Plaza

JEFFERSON CITY — The 23 Republicans who control the 34-member Missouri Senate will gather for a retreat starting Friday morning at the Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis.

The powers-that-be will meet at the Central West End landmark…

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12.03.2009 12:09 pm

Jay Nixon: “This is the year” to pass autism insurance mandate

Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau

JEFFERSON CITY - Gov. Jay Nixon wants insurers to cover $72,000 a year in “life-changing therapies” for the mounting number of autistic children in the state.

Flanked by a bipartisan group of legislators, Nixon held a press conference in his Capitol…

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12.02.2009 3:30 pm

Nixon, Richard push autism-insurance legislation

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Richard, left, and Nixon

Richard, left, and Nixon

JEFFERSON CITY — House Speaker Ron Richard and Gov. Jay Nixon have continued their battle to be the champion of families with autistic children today, with competing announcements concerning legislation in the upcoming session of the General Assembly.

Richard, a…

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12.02.2009 12:44 pm

Mo. regulators endorse Lumiere Place but investigate former CEO

Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau
Dan Lee

Dan Lee

JEFFERSON CITY — Winning re-licensure from the Missouri Gaming Commission was a snap this morning for the $564 million Lumiere Place casino in St. Louis.

Still undecided: whether regulators will mete out any discipline to the casino’s parent company, Las…

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12.02.2009 11:24 am

Democrat Robin Carnahan backs Obama’s Afghanistan strategy

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

JEFFERSON CITY — Perhaps tiring of continued Republican attacks that she won’t take firm positions on important national topics, U.S. Senate candidate Robin Carnahan, a Democrat, issued a news release today backing President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan strategy.

“I support the decision by…

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12.01.2009 4:52 pm

Ethics redux: Shields’ approach similar to one tossed by courts

Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau

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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11.30.2009 5:18 pm

Rep. Brian Yates to resign, work for payday lending firm

Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau
Yates

Yates

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…

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11.24.2009 12:55 pm

Second time’s the charm; Nixon bags, donates deer

Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau

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…

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11.20.2009 6:16 pm

Jay Nixon, Steve Ehlmann talk about bipartisanship on economy, hoops

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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.

Nixon

Nixon

“I got to know the…

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