When the House debated the tax credit/school voucher bill last week during a late night session, the House chambers were full of emotion as supporters of the bill — which in this year’s version would aim to help autistic children…

Former U.S. Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo., who served in the state House before heading to Congress, is apparently preparing to help his party protect its control of the state Legislature.

Talent is joining two Republican political leaders in the state Capitol –…

Tomorrow could be Election Day for more than one-third of the members of the Missouri House.

So far, about 60 of the 163 House races feature only one candidate, according to the list on file with the Secretary of State’s…

Steve Eagleton, one of the co-chairs of “Kirkwood Citizens Coming Together for a Brighter Future,” has filed for the state Senate in the 15th District.

Eagleton and the group had been among the critics of the City Council’s decision to go…

House Majority Leader Steven Tilley just announced on the House floor that legislators should be prepared to take up House Bills 1416 and 1824.

And what weighty topics are coming up?

Designating the morel as the official state mushroom (HB1416)…

This just in from the Associated Press:

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Senators voted to repeal Missouri’s campaign contribution limits Wednesday after turning back an attempt to allow public financing of political campaigns.

If the legislation passes both the Senate and…

State Rep. Ron Richard, R-Joplin and the next speaker of the Missouri House, was in St. Louis Friday “visiting with local business leaders from both sides of the aisle to discuss economic growth, transportation and a host of other issues facing…

Mary Still, long a key aide to Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon (and who also toiled for a couple years for then-Gov. Bob Holden), has retired from state government and is entering politics.

Still, 54, called this afternoon to say that she’d formed…

Former Missouri Lt. Gov. Joe Maxwell, who had been the state’s most prominent supporter of John Edwards, is now endorsing Sen. Hillary Clinton.

In a release slated to go out tomorrow, Maxwell is among several Edwards supporters who have switched…

Present Democratic state representatives and a former one from the unincorporated area of south St. Louis County have joined the opposition to trash collection districts in the unincorporated area. Republicans from that area earlier had objected strongly against the idea.…