Former state House Speaker Jim Kreider — a pro-gun Democrat from Nixa, Mo. who was the last of his party to hold the state House’s top post (and then lost a bid for the state Senate) — is hosting Attorney General…

State Treasurer Sarah Steelman, a Republican candidate for governor, fired off an attack today contending that a recent congressional vote by the her GOP rival — U.S. Rep. Kenny Hulshof — is “another example of him being out of touch with the…

Kenny Hulshof’s campaign just released a list of more than 60 Republican lawmakers that are supporting his bid for governor.

Hulshof’s campaign contends that the list represents 65 percent of GOP members in the House, though we haven’t done the math.…

I don’t know how we missed this earlier, but the state’s “chief” marijuana advocate has signed up for the governor’s race - and he’s got competition.

Ozark pot supporter Joseph Bickell has entered the race for the state’s highest office, and…

The Missouri Ethics Commission issued a detailed decision this afternoon, in which it laid out the particulars of the $15,000 fine imposed against Gov. Matt Blunt’s 2004 campaign for governor.

The decision also told his campaign to pay back, within 10…

 U.S. Rep. Kenny Hulshof, R-Columbia and a candidate for governor, announced this afternoon that he “has accepted an invitation to debate Sarah Steelman in Springfield this summer.

“A coalition of KYTV, the Springfield News-Leader, Ozarks Public Television and KSMU radio have…

Veteran political consultant Dick Morris is enamored enough with Sarah Steelman’s anti-terror policies that he traveled across the country to deliver a campaign speech, gratis, without ever having met her.

Morris’ opinion of her Republican primary opponent, U.S. Rep. Kenny Hulshof? Eh,…

Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry is scheduled to join Attorney General Jay Nixon at a fundraiser later today in Springfield, Mo.  

The event, which begins at 5:15 p.m. at the Teamsters Hall, is to raise money for Nixon’s bid for governor. It…

Multi-millionaire Rex Sinquefield, joined by aides and two professors who’ve done studies for his Show-Me Institute, stopped by the Post-Dispatch this morning to lay out some of his views to members of the paper’s Editorial Page.

Yours truly and cohort…

State Treasurer Sarah Steelman, a Republican running for governor, says she plans to appear before a state Senate committee Wednesday and “present an analysis and testimony…that illegal workers are likely costing Missouri between $26 and $49 million every year.”

She…