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11.13.2009 9:34 am

UPDATE: Sen. Gary Nodler will step down as Senate budget chairman

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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UPDATE: Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, the president pro tem of the Senate, is expected to name a replacement for Nodler as Senate budget chairman sometime today. The odds on favorite is budget vice chairman, Sen. Rob Mayer, R-Dexter. In…

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11.10.2009 12:49 am

Florissant police oppose proposal to cut their pay by 3 percent

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Florissant Mayor Robert Lowery and city council members on Monday faced about 60 city police officers whose pay they may cut by 3 percent by the end of the month.

The blue-uniformed officers sat in the back rows of the council chamber.…

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11.02.2009 1:01 pm

New St. Louis County budget would continue pay freeze

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley’s budget for next year calls for extending a pay freeze for a second year.

Dooley this morning submitted to the county council a total county budget of nearly $498.8 million for next year. The total…

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10.27.2009 5:04 pm

Missouri governor’s budget ax will drop at 11 a.m.

Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau

JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Jay Nixon will reveal his latest round of budget cuts tomorrow.

Nixon and his budget director, Linda Luebbering, will detail the cuts at an 11 a.m. news conference in her first-floor Capitol office.

Budget-watchers expect Nixon to chop…

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07.15.2009 6:57 pm

Illinois lawmakers voting in no-new-tax budget of borrowing, furloughs

Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois lawmakers tonight have begun patching together a budget for the fiscal year that started two weeks ago. The new spending plan doesn’t contain the tax increase that Gov. Pat Quinn has sought.

 

As a result, even supporters of the…

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07.09.2009 4:03 pm

Ill. Gov. Quinn ends infrastructure standoff, will sign works bill Monday

Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn will sign the state’s long-awaited $29 billion capital works bill into law on Monday, opening up a money spigot for bridge, road and infrastructure improvements across the state and creating thousands of jobs.

Those…

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06.30.2009 6:08 pm

Ill. Senate votes down funding plan for human services

Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau

UPDATE, 8:28 p.m.: Never mind. They just voted it down again.

UPDATE, 8:22 p.m.: The Senate right now it making another attempt at this bill, and there are indications it will pass this time. They’re debating it on the floor. Stand…

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06.25.2009 8:57 am

Jay Nixon expected to reveal budget cuts at 11 a.m. today

Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau

JEFFERSON CITY — Suspense over what Gov. Jay Nixon will cut from the state budget may end this morning.

Nixon’s office has announced that the governor will hold a “media availability” on the budget in his Capitol office at 11 a.m. The new…

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06.24.2009 2:58 pm

Illinois budget remains unresolved; Quinn backs off service cuts

Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Legislature adjourned for the week a short time ago, after a special session that appears to have brought the state no closer to ending its protracted and potentially devastating budget stalemate.

But with the July 1…

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06.16.2009 10:55 am

Illinois lawmakers likely back next week to re-think tax hike

Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau

WEDNESDAY - Legislative leaders meeting with Quinn in Chicago today confirmed after the meeting that lawmakers will return to Springfield on Tuesday, according to an Associated Press report out of Chicago. There is still no agreement on taxes or cuts…

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