UPDATE: Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, has offered a nuanced change to his position on the proposed bond issue. He’s still in favor of it, but he doesn’t approve of Nixon offering support of the plan in exchange for holding back…

UPDATE: The various interest groups on both sides of the Ameren bill are weighing in on the news that the bill is likely dead: From Gregg Keller of Fair Electricity Rates Action Fund: “From day one, FERAF has negotiated in good…

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…

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 – 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…

JEFFERSON CITY — In preparation for an expected Missouri Senate committee vote on Tuesday, the various groups opposed to an Ameren bill that would change the state’s construction work in progress law are putting on the full court press against…

JEFFERSON CITY — While the Ameren bill seeking to change laws related to electric-plant financing has gotten most of the attention in the Senate Commerce committee this year, other utilities — as usual — have their own proposals which haven’t…

JEFFERSON CITY — If this were college, they would call it hazing.

Somehow, the freshman senators seem to have a bit more trouble than others getting things done around here. And former representatives aren’t exempt.

Today, Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, watched as many of her…

Ameren's existing nuclear plant

JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Jay Nixon’s statements last week tossing cold water on the proposed AmerenUE nuclear plant bill must not have trickled down to the Missouri House.

The utility committee hearing the bill — which would pave the…

Senators Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, and David Pearce, R-Warrensburg have sponsored a bill that would change how Access Missouri scholarships work.

The bill, SB 390, would make the maximum scholarship the same for all four-year schools, regardless of whether they are public…