Today saw a flurry of fracases in the longstanding e-mail fight between Gov. Matt Blunt and Attorney General Jay Nixon.
When we left the duo a few weeks ago, Nixon’s staff was sending over copies of thousands of office e-mails to comply…
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Loading ...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…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...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…
(1 votes, average: 1 out of 5) Loading ...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…
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...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…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...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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(3 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...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…
(4 votes, average: 2.75 out of 5) Loading ...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…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...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…
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