State Rep. Jim Lembke, R-South County, held a conference call with reporters this afternoon to emphasize his plan to press the Legislature during the coming session to approve changes in how Missouri’s judges are selected and retained.

So far, three…

Today, the state Democratic Party issued a release on behalf of state Rep. Jason Holsman, D-Kansas City, in which he “called on Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt to make his New Year’s resolution to protect Missouri’s environment by joining other governors…

This just in from the presidential campaign for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.:

State Rep. Rachel Storch, D-St. Louis, has been hired to be Clinton’s Missouri state director as her campaign gears up for the Feb. 5 primary.

“I’m delighted that…

For almost two years, Attorney General Jay Nixon has campaigned on the unwise and mean-spirited nature, as he sees it, of the cuts in Medicaid enacted by the state Legislature and Gov. Matt Blunt in 2005. Nixon also has spotlighted…

Gov. Matt Blunt, a Republican, and state Senate Minority Leader Maida Coleman, D-St. Louis, each offered their two-cents today on the latest explosive controversy, this one involving Missouri’s Public Service Commission (PSC).

(The Post-Dispatch initially broke the story.)

In his release,…

State Rep. Jeff Roorda, D-Barnhart, sent out an e-release this morning to announce that “he will be pre-filing legislation to close a loophole in the state minimum wage law that has forced law enforcement agencies and fire departments across the…

There will be no special election Feb. 5 to fill Republican state Sen. Tom Dempsey’s old Missouri House seat in St. Charles, as the deadline passed Tuesday for adding races to  that day’s ballot.

However, a spokeswoman for Gov. Matt Blunt says…

The committee that works to elect Republicans to the state House has decided to quit taking campaign contributions from casinos.The move by the House Republican Campaign Committee was prompted by conservatives’ concerns that the industry wields too much influence, said…

State Sen. President Pro Tem Michael Gibbons, R-Kirkwood and a candidate for attorney general, sent out a statement Thursday that asserts various St. Louis County entities are guilty of “$46.6 Million in Back Door Tax Hikes.”

“Only 15 Taxing Jurisdictions…