JEFFERSON CITY — Sen. Luann Ridgeway, R-Smithville, said it all today during a Senate committee meeting discussing a planned “review” of the withholding of a document showing elevated E. coli levels at the Lake of the Ozarks:

“We’ve got to know…

Brad Lager

JEFFERSON CITY –A Senate committee is investigating what led a state environmental agency to sit on a report showing unsafe E. coli levels at the Lake of the Ozarks.

Sen. Brad Lager, R-Savannah, announced the probe today. He said a…

Biden with a worker at ABB in Jefferson City

JEFFERSON CITY – On his way to St. Louis, Joe Biden stopped at ABB factory in the state capital this afternoon, where he spoke about the importance of the middle class and maybe…

JEFFERSON CITY — Tune in tonight if you want to hear the long-awaited Senate debate on Gov. Jay Nixon’s jobs bill.

Senators plan to take up the bill at 8 p.m. and debate it as long as it takes to wrap…

Brad Lager

JEFFERSON CITY — It’s hard to find a middle ground between those for and those against abortion rights in Missouri. But both have come together against a bill from Sen. Brad Lager, R-Savannah, heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee…

Lager

JEFFERSON CITY — Sen. Brad Lager has fine-tuned his plan to cap all state tax credit programs and expects to pitch the changes to fellow senators today.

The substitute bill would limit historic preservation credits to $75 million a year instead of the…

JEFFERSON CITY — While the Ameren bill seeking to change laws related to electric-plant financing has gotten most of the attention in the Senate Commerce committee this year, other utilities — as usual — have their own proposals which haven’t…

JEFFERSON CITY — Senators have taken up their long-awaited alternative to Gov. Jay Nixon’s jobs bill, and historic preservationists are not going to be happy.

The massive, 250-page bill includes a $50 million annual cap on tax credits for restoring historic…

Ameren's existing nuclear plant

JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Jay Nixon’s statements last week tossing cold water on the proposed AmerenUE nuclear plant bill must not have trickled down to the Missouri House.

The utility committee hearing the bill — which would pave the…

Kingery

JEFFERSON CITY — The House of Representatives voted 101-60 today to pass Rep. Gayle Kingery’s bill allowing districts to opt into a four-day school week.

Meanwhile, the Senate Education committee has heard from a similar bill from Brad Lager, R-Savannah.

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