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 — Never count out an abortion bill in the Missouri Legislature.

This year’s abortion bill, which would strengthen existing waiting period laws and add the crime of coercing an abortion, is back to life in the Missouri Senate. The…

Sen. Jolie Justus, right, after her wedding in Iowa with Shonda Garrison, center.

JEFFERSON CITY — A story in the Mother Ship yesterday reported about 17 gay couples who made the trek to Iowa to get married this weekend.

One of those…

JEFFERSON CITY — As the Legislature has been ramping up in the final month, so has the Jefferson City tweeting.

Charlie Shields

This post is from education writer Nancy Cambria.

Looks like it could be once, twice, three strikes you’re out for a proposal to create a 5-star quality rating system for Missouri’s licensed child care facilities.

Equating it with restaurant and hotel…

Brad Lager

JEFFERSON CITY — It’s hard to find a middle ground between those for and those against abortion rights in Missouri. But both have come together against a bill from Sen. Brad Lager, R-Savannah, heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee…

If you’re getting annoyed with all the talk of Twitter, move along to the next post.

But in Jake Wagman’s last post about Twitter, a commenter asked which legislators have Twitter accounts. Below is a list, although probably not comprehensive, of the Missouri public officials I…

JEFFERSON CITY — The Senate  spent all morning talking education, and it still hasn’t gotten through the whole discussion.

It was debating a bill, sponsored by President Pro Tem Charlie Shields, that would allow virtual classes and change how the school funding…

Justus, left, and Cunningham

JEFFERSON CITY — Senators Jolie Justus, D-Kansas City, and Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, seem like unlikely allies.

But today, the two were the only opposition to Sen. Charlie Shields‘ quality rating system bill in the Health, Mental Health, Seniors…

Justus

JEFFERSON CITY — Sen. Jolie Justus, D-Kansas City, has  sponsored a resolution that would urge the U.S. Congress to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

“It sends the message that Missouri doesn’t tolerate discrimination of any sort, that in Missouri men and…