Wood

JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Jay Nixon will appoint state Rep. Dennis Wood, R-Kimberling City, to a position on the Stone County Commission this week, according to Missouri House Speaker Ron Richard.

Richard said Wood will resign and a special election will be…

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri House Speaker Ron Richard is hosting a dinner tonight for an elite club: his predecessors as speaker.

Seven former speakers are expected to attend the soiree in the elegant House lounge on the third floor of the…

JEFFERSON CITY — The Kansas City Star’s Steve Kraske had a good story today about another political consulting deal in the Capitol that is raising questions.

This one involves not the former Speaker of the House, but current Speaker Ron Richard, whose…

JEFFERSON CITY — Let it be very clear. Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, and Sen. Jason Crowell, R-Cape Girardeau, don’t seem to like each other very much. And according to their just-finished exchange, neither do their favored political consultants.

Schaefer, who wrote…

JEFFERSON CITY — Wonder why some Republicans are a little hot under the collar over the full-court press put on by opponents of the Ameren/CWIP bill in the Missouri Legislature?

It might be because one of their former leaders, ex-House Speaker…

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri House members were warned Monday by the House’s top attorney to avoid accepting anything of value for the “performance or nonperformance of any act or duty.”

General Counsel Don Lograsso sent a memo dated yesterday to every member…

Jetton

JEFFERSON CITY — Democrat Jake Zimmerman and Republican Brian Yates are combining on a piece of ethics reform legislation that could easily be called the anti-Rod Jetton bill.

Jetton, the former speaker of the House, was criticized last year for running a political consulting…

Neal St. Onge

The first showdown of the new legislative session appears to be an intra-party affair.

In December, as first reported by the Columbia Daily Tribune’s Terry Ganey, former state Rep. Neal St. Onge, R-Ballwin, found a way to secure…

Departing House Speaker Rod Jetton, R-Marble Hill, said today that he has learned a few things during his eight years in the House.

“I came here a hard-core, conservative nut,” Jetton said. “Ask Gov. Holden. I even interrupted his speech once,…

State House Speaker Rod Jetton just e-mailed an announcement that he’ll hold a news conference on Thursday “in response to Lt. Governor Peter Kinder’s recent accusations…”

Jetton said that at Thursday’s event, he will ”make a statement and answer any questions pertaining to the validity…