ST. LOUIS COUNTY — If the state is considering eliminating career ladder raises for teachers, shouldn’t tax credits for developers be on the chopping block, too?

That was the bottom line today as Sen. Jason Crowell made a pitch to the…

A judge has rejected St. Charles County and St. Louis County’s challenge of a $10 increase in the fee charged by sheriff’s deputies across Missouri for delivering civil subpoenas, writs, summonses and other areas.

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The money raised by the fee hike, enacted in…

JEFFERSON CITY — They came. They saw. They raised money.

That’s about the extent of the Missouri Legislature’s Constitutionally mandated veto session that lasted for about two hours today.

The Missouri House held one vote, and failed to override a Gov.…

Gov. Jay Nixon has made his budget cut decisions public - read the latest here by Jefferson City Bureau Chief Virginia Young.

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…

Neal St. Onge

As reported this morning on the Mother Ship, former Ballwin state Rep. Neal St. Onge resigned his short-lived job as inspector general of the Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight yesterday.

St. Onge has been in a tiff with his former…

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The St. Charles County and St. Louis County executives, Steve Ehlmann and Charlie Dooley, have teamed up for a bipartisan challenge of a $10 increase in the fee charged by sheriff’s deputies across the state for delivering civil subpoenas, writs, summonses and other orders.

In a lawsuit filed last week…

With the economy in crisis mode and health care a looming issue for the future, candidates for Missouri state rep positions will be in the spotlight at a political forum on the topic tomorrow, Tuesday, night.

The forum will be held at…

The state Legislature’s Joint Committee on Tax Policy is set to hold a public hearing Wednesday in the Wainwright Gallery of the Wainwright State Office Building,111 N. 7th Street.

The session begins at 11 a.m.

The panel says it “welcomes comments from…

State Rep. Scott Muschany, R-Frontenac, isn’t the only legislator who acted Tuesday to drop their re-election bid this fall.

So did state Rep. Brad Robinson, D-Bonne Terre, who faces hit-and-run charges for allegedly driving away after hitting a man with his pickup on…