JEFFERSON CITY — Legislation setting maximum caseloads for public defenders wouldn’t solve the overburdened system’s problems, Gov. Jay Nixon said today.

Nixon vetoed the bill (SB37), along with more than a dozen others. The actions wrapped up his decisions on legislation…

WEDNESDAY - Legislative leaders meeting with Quinn in Chicago today confirmed after the meeting that lawmakers will return to Springfield on Tuesday, according to an Associated Press report out of Chicago. There is still no agreement on taxes or cuts…

SECOND UPDATE, 12:25 P.M. SATURDAY - The House Revenue Committee just approved a two-year version of Quinn’s tax hike (from the current 3 percent to 4.5 percent flat-rate, to automatically revert back to the 3-percent rate in 2011). It passed…

UPDATE, 2:55 p.m. : William Olson, lobbyist for the Associated Beer Distributors of Illinois, counters that the tax won’t raise as much money as proponents claim, because some people will drink less as a result, and others will cross state…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois House committee this morning unanimously approved legislation to crack down on lawyers, investigators and others milking the state for exorbitant expenses in death-penalty trials, the result of a Post-Dispatch expose’ last year.

The newspaper reported in…

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 — state…

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 office.…

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 ahead…

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) and the…