Nodler

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…

Lowery

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.…

Charlie Dooley

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…