As the Legislature entered the final day of its 2009 session, State Sen. Joan Bray has dropped her effort to widen the financial base of the Zoo-Museum District beyond St. Louis and St. Louis County.
Bray’s bill to allow nonresident admission fees at district…
Bray
JEFFERSON CITY — The fallout from the Senate compromise on the abortion bill grew exponentially this morning.
Sen. Jack Goodman, R-Mt. Vernon, chastised Sen. Joan Bray, D-University City, on the floor of the Senate this morning for her comments last night criticizing…
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Senate passed controversial abortion legislation early Thursday morning after lengthy negotiations that gutted the version of the bill that passed the House early this session.
Originally, the bill would have created the crime of coercing an…
JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri Sen. Joan Bray said today that she would filibuster a bill that would allow for concealed carry on college campuses.
Bray spoke briefly at a press conference put on by anti-concealed carry advocates, including Colin Goddard, a student…
JEFFERSON CITY — Like most, if not all, Ameren utility customers, I recieved a letter in the mail this week explaining the investor-owned utility’s side of the debate over its proposed nuclear plant.
The letter is interesting if considered side by…
Corcoran
JEFFERSON CITY — As reported on the Mother Ship this morning, state Rep. Michael Corcoran, D-St. Ann, has been charged with drunk driving related to a traffic stop that occurred on Feb. 6 in St. Louis County.
Corcoran’s attorney says he’ll…
JEFFERSON CITY — In the end, it wasn’t so much a debate but a skirmish.
The two sides in the debate over the Legislative session’s major utility bill dug their heels in for 10 hours of debate Tuesday afternoon that didn’t…
JEFFERSON CITY — Sen. Joan Bray won a tentative victory today when the Senate Appropriations Committee agreed to put $2 million in the budget for a smoking cessation program.
Bray, D-University City, sought the funds to help low-income pregnant women on…
JEFFERSON CITY – Several weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations on the proposal that would pave the way for a new AmerenUE nuclear plant produced a new bill that narrowly passed out of the Senate commerce committee Tuesday.
But it did little to…
Eric Schmitt
JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Senate passed a bill that would require county assessors to be elected.
The bill exempts Jackson County and St. Louis city, leaving St. Louis County the only place the bill would apply to that doesn’t…
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