While spats ruled the day in Jefferson City, there was one big exception.

A House-Senate conference committee easily agreed tonight on a measure aimed at keeping property taxes from soaring after reassessment.

The bill would require local governments to roll…

Today, Gov. Matt Blunt’s office announced that it “is seeking e-mails and e-mail backup tapes from a state representative who has purported to be a champion of Missouri’s Sunshine Act.”

That legislator is state Rep. Jeff Harris, D-Columbia and one of three Democrats…

Gov. Matt Blunt’s staff has targeted Attorney General Jay Nixon’s office, in a not-too-subtle attempt to broaden the controversy over the preservation of state emails.

Blunt chief of staff Trish Vincent blasted Nixon in a statement Tuesday, saying that he’s been…

Gov. Matt Blunt has named a replacement for St. Louis County Judge Barbara Ann Crancer — who takes with her from the bench a little slice of labor lore.

Crancer, 70, retired at the beginning of the month, nearly 20 years after…

Tuesday night, Gov. Matt Blunt’s communications chief, Rich Chrismer,  issued the following statement in response to comments that the likely Democratic nominee, Attorney General Jay Nixon, made at a union rally in the afternoon that were critical of the governor’s record on illegal immigration:

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Gov. Matt Blunt, who’s been having a tough time getting the Legislature to take much action on any of his initiatives this session, isn’t giving up.

In a release just sent out, the governor said he was “renewing his call for…

Imagine a state agency with no ability to make decisions on hiring and firing of personnel. That’s what happened for months at the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole, according to testimony at a House hearing today.

The seven-member board…

As already mentioned at the mother ship in a story by our D.C.. bureau’s Jonathan Cooper, a national report gives Missouri a B+ for governance.

The survey, by the Pew Center for the States and Governing Magazine, praised the Show Me state…

Gov. Matt Blunt and state House Speaker Rod Jetton just completed a conference call with Missouri reporters to promote former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Blunt’s chief pitch to fellow conservatives: Don’t waste your Feb. 5 vote on former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

“This…

It took months of sparring, but now that one of them has pulled out of the race, it finally happened: Jay Nixon and Matt Blunt agree on something.

Whether they realized it or not, the lame duck governor and his erstwhile rival…