Schildroth

Florissant city councilman Keith Schildroth has announced that he is a Democratic candidate for the 76th district seat in the Missouri House.

State Rep. Michael Spreng, D-Florissant, currently holds the seat but cannot run for re-election because of term limits.

Schildroth, 49, was…

Former state Rep. James Riley, a Democrat from Richmond Heights who represented part of central St. Louis County for 20 years, died Thursday of lung cancer.

Riley, 65, (left), a retired plumber, served in the Legislature from 1972 to 1992. He was…

JEFFERSON CITY — On a party-line vote, the Missouri House today passed and sent to the Senate a bill that would cut the state’s individual income tax.

Under the bill, the rates would drop by a half-percentage point. For example, the…

UPDATE: Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder is blaming Gov. Jay Nixon for the defeat of the Metro funding. In a conference call with reporters, Kinder alleged that Nixon worked against the bill. Kinder was joined by several African-American legislators from St.…

JEFFERSON CITY — With only three weeks left of session, any bill that hasn’t gotten out of the first chamber is probably dead.

And even most of the bills passed through the House this week won’t get floor time in the…

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…

Bringer

JEFFERSON CITY — Democrats tried to facilitate Gov. Jay Nixon’s health care proposal to raise taxes on hospitals for health care in the House today.

Rep. Rachel Bringer, D-Palmyra, sponsored an unsuccessful amendment on a bill from Budget Chair Allen Icet, R-Wildwood.

Icet said…

In one of the first steps toward getting down to business, the House of Representatives passed the rules that will govern their body today.

Although the debate was heated at points, the tone of the discussion perhaps foreshadowed the success —…

Biermann

Kenny Biermann, a newly-elected Missouri House member from St. Charles, plans to keep his seat on the Orchard Farm School Board after he’s sworn into the Legislature next month.

“It was a responsibility I took on,” he said of the school…

LeVota

Despite disappointing election results for House Democrats, Rep. Paul LeVota of Independence will keep his post as House minority leader.

The Democrats are still wrapping up their closed caucus in the Capitol basement but during a recent break, LeVota emerged with…