KIRKWOOD – Healthy Air for Kirkwood, the sponsor of an initiative to ban smoking in indoor public places, has raised $830 and spent $33.56 thus far, a campaign finance report says. Voters will consider the proposal in November.

The report has…

Julie A. Allen is the state’s new top ethics cop.

The Missouri Ethics Commission announced today that it had chosen Allen, a certified public accountant, to head the agency. Allen currently works as director of the customer services division at the…

El-Amin

It has been a difficult spell as of late for former state representative Yaphett El-Amin.

On Oct. 8, the St. Louis Democrat was slapped with a $10,000 fine by the state Ethics Commission for irregularities on her campaign forms. El-Amin, who…

Remember when state legislators filed their campaign finance reports on paper? Images of their scanned reports could be called up one page at a time — if you were patient enough to sit there and wait.

The Legislature finally required electronic…

The candidates for lieutenant governor have showed that — just like their counterparts higher-up on the ticket — they, too, can collect large checks.

As we have said earlier, the new campaign finance laws that went into affect Aug. 28 allow…

The new campaign finance laws that went into affect last month are a double-edged sword for politicians collecting cash to help their cause.

On one side, candidates can accept as much money as they want from any donor at any time.…

The Missouri Ethic Commission just confirmed that they voted to dismiss three complaints filed against state Sen. Chris Koster, now the Democratic nominee for attorney general, and the Economic Growth Council, a campaign committee that directed tens of thousands of…

While in Clayton this morning, state Treasurer Sarah Steelman — a Republican running for governor — stopped by the public library to lay out her proposals for improving ethics in government.

The proposals, unveiled earlier this week elsewhere in the state, target…

The AP’s David Lieb is reporting that Gov. Matt Blunt’s latest nominee to the Missouri Ethics Commission, Jefferson City attorney Michael Schmid, is withdrawing his name.

Schmid — a law partner to gubernatorial brother Andy Blunt — cited lack of support from the…

Gov. Matt Blunt has nominated the head of a Kirkwood business group for a seat on the Ethics Commission.

Jim Wright, 54, of Ballwin, is president of the Kirkwood/Des Peres Area Chamber of Commerce. Wright replaces Republican Warren Nieburg, whose term expires…