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JEFFERSON CITY — After 23 years at the Post-Dispatch, Christy Bertelson is joining the administration of Gov. Jay Nixon.

Bertelson, who retired from the newspaper on Friday, began work today as deputy director of the Transform Missouri Project, the team that…

The team signs posters and other MU memorabilia.

JEFFERSON CITY — The 2008 University of Missouri-Columbia football team visited both chambers of the Legislature and the governor today.

“We take great pride to represent this great state,” Coach Gary Pinkel told the Senate.

Rep. Mary…

Among the first bills filed today in Jefferson City: A bill that would ban the use of cell phones while driving in certain circumstances.

Today is the first day to pre-file bills in the Missouri Legislature. For some lawmakers, it’s their…

It’s no wonder U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill is considered a super-surrogate for the Barack Obama campaign: She’ll even press her mom into service.

Betty Ann McCaskill, 80, will host an Obama-sponsored  social security and health care roundtable a little later this afternoon…

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 a…