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05.15.2009 12:00 pm

Zoo-Museum District bill dead for this year, sponsor Joan Bray says

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As the Legislature entered the final day of its 2009 session, State Sen. Joan Bray has dropped her effort to  widen the financial base of the Zoo-Museum District beyond St. Louis and St. Louis County.

Bray’s bill to allow nonresident admission fees at district…

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03.26.2009 12:00 pm

Senate approves requiring election of St. Louis county assessors

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Eric Schmitt

Eric Schmitt

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Senate passed a bill that would require county assessors to be elected.

The bill exempts  Jackson County and St. Louis city, leaving St. Louis County the only place the bill would apply to that doesn’t…

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03.26.2009 9:42 am

Merit pay for St. Louis attached to education bill

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

JEFFERSON CITY — In an early morning vote that had to be done not once, but twice, the Missouri Senate today passed a bill that would allow teachers in the city of St. Louis to leave the traditional tenure track…

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05.06.2008 3:34 pm

Lawmakers approve parolee funding for computers

As budget negotiations are wrapping up this week, senators briefly discussed the issue of using about $12.5 million in monthly fees paid by parolees for new computer equipment at the state Department of Corrections.

The funding would pay for two projects…

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