JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Jay Nixon will reveal his latest round of budget cuts tomorrow.

Nixon and his budget director, Linda Luebbering, will detail the cuts at an 11 a.m. news conference in her first-floor Capitol office.

Budget-watchers expect Nixon to chop…

Schaaf

JEFFERSON CITY — He hasn’t been officially censured, but Rep. Rob Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, is sorry anyway.

On the House floor today, he apologized for comparing Medicaid coverage for children to slavery.

“I wasn’t talking about slavery of African Americans — a…

JEFFERSON CITY — Sen. Joan Bray won a tentative victory today when the Senate Appropriations Committee agreed to put $2 million in the budget for a smoking cessation program.

Bray, D-University City, sought the funds to help low-income pregnant women on…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Senate just approved a plan to raise the state tax on cigarettes by $1 per pack that the chamber rejected one hour ago.

The measure, Senate Bill 44, was recalled after failing and ultimately passed by a vote of 30-26. …

JEFFERSON CITY — Associated Industries of Missouri has endorsed Gov. Jay Nixon’s plan to broaden Medicaid to cover 35,000 additional low-income parents.

The group, which represents large businesses and manufacturers, said Tuesday that expanding government coverage and reducing the number of…

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri House wrapped up work on its version of the state budget late Wednesday after a heated debate over Medicaid.

As they have in the past, Republicans rebuffed Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon’s proposal to broaden the health…

JEFFERSON CITY — The staredown between Gov. Jay Nixon and House Republicans over health care funding is continuing with no signs of retreat on either side.

As reported yesterday here at The Political Fix, Budget Chairman Allen Icet, R-Wildwood, removed…

JEFFERSON CITY — The Capitol Rotunda was overflowing today with hundreds of home-health care workers and people with disabilities, who came to lobby for reversal of the 2005 Medicaid cuts.

But if they were hoping for a quick fix from Gov.…

JEFFERSON CITY — Remember the keystone of Gov. Jay Nixon’s campaign — reversing the 2005 Medicaid cuts? People with disabilities remember.

Tomorrow, home-care workers and people with disabilities will lead a rally in the Capitol Rotunda where they will urge Nixon…

Ian McCaslin has managed to build a bipartisan following in the state capital while holding one of the state’s toughest jobs.

Hired by former Gov. Matt Blunt to run the state’s Medicaid program, McCaslin has been retained by Gov. Jay Nixon’s administration.

McCaslin…