JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri’s plan to cut about 100 state parks workers has been scaled back, according to the Springfield News-Leader’s Chad Livengood. After various workers exercised seniority rights and jobs were moved around, only 48 jobs were cut, according…

JEFFERSON CITY — The day after Secretary of State Robin Carnahan announced that her office has made past state Blue Books available online, Sen. Kevin Engler, R-Farmington, has issued a news release repeating his past call to do away with the…

Brown

JEFFERSON CITY — In a motion filed in federal court yesterday, former state Rep. Steve Brown of Clayton argues that he should receive a lighter sentence than the 15-to-21 months called for in sentencing guidelines.

Why? Because the Democrat cooperated in the…

JEFFERSON CITY — The state’s tax collections continued their steep decline in October, raising the possibility of more budget cuts.

Budget Director Linda Luebbering reported today that general revenue receipts plummeted 14 percent last month compared to October 2008. The state…

The governor has called a summit to discuss DWI

JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Jay Nixon’s DWI summit is underway.

The governor, moved by our investigative series that found widespread failures to punish drunken drivers, has assembled a team of 34 people to start…

JEFFERSON CITY — The little-used blacklist for Missouri casinos has gained another name.

Gambling regulators last week added Carolyn K. Yelton of Wellsville, Mo., to the list. The former bookkeeper pleaded guilty in April to embezzling more than $180,000 from the…

Gaertner

JEFFERSON CITY — Gary M. Gaertner Jr. tried two years ago to make history and replace his father, Gary M. Gaertner Sr., on the Missouri Court of Appeals, but then-Gov. Matt Blunt appointed Kurt Odenwald instead.

Undeterred, Gaertner applied again, and…

(Reporting with Joe Mahr.)

The governor has called a DWI summit

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has summoned police, judges, prosecutors and anti-DWI advocates to Jefferson City on Wednesday to discuss ways to better enforce the state’s drunken driving laws.

Nixon spokesman Scott Holste said…

JEFFERSON CITY — My colleague Kim McGuire has posted on her blog more news of a staff shakeup at the Missouri Department of Natural Resources that might be related to the E. coli controversy at Lake of the Ozarks.

The news was…

JEFFERSON CITY — Planned Parenthood sued the state Wednesday to object to the language in two proposed anti-abortion, anti-stem-cell funding ballot initiatives.

The lawsuits, filed in Cole County Circuit Court, seek to stop the approval of language for a ballot initiative that…