Susan Montee

Here’s a report from my Post-Dispatch colleague Elizabethe Holland:

The long-awaited results of an audit of the Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection District will be disclosed Nov. 17 by Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee in a public meeting on the University…

Brad Lager

JEFFERSON CITY –A Senate committee is investigating what led a state environmental agency to sit on a report showing unsafe E. coli levels at the Lake of the Ozarks.

Sen. Brad Lager, R-Savannah, announced the probe today. He said a…

Eckersley

JEFFERSON CITY — Is a fired employee’s defamation and wrongful termination suit against former Gov. Matt Blunt settled or not?

The former employee, Scott Eckersley, sent word to the state attorney general’s office today that he had fired his attorneys, Steve…

JEFFERSON CITY — Attorney General Chris Koster told a group of Sunshine Law advocates earlier this year that he’d take the state’s open records law seriously.

Today, he made good on his word with a lawsuit against the Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection…

JEFFERSON CITY — While debating a bill that would change Misouri’s open records law, the Missouri House of Representatives rejected 79-81 an amendment that would apply the law to its members.

Then, with little debate, they passed on a voice vote…

COLUMBIA — Attorney General Chris Koster told Sunshine Law advocates today that he will assign a member of his staff to work with media outlets that run into conflict with government officials denying access to public records.

Koster was speaking at the…

JEFFERSON CITY — Days after the legal battle over e-mails and Sunshine Law between former Gov. Matt Blunt and special assistant attorneys general ended, attorneys for the governor have sought to dismiss the lawsuit filed by a former deputy counsel…

Nixon at the site of a stimulus project near Tuscubmia

Republicans may be leery of spending federal stimulus funds on ongoing state services. Gov. Jay Nixon isn’t.

At a luncheon he hosted today at the Governor’s Mansion for the Missouri Press/Associated Press…

JEFFERSON CITY – A Cole County Circuit Court judge approved a settlement today between Gov. Matt Blunt and court-appointed attorneys that provides thousands of public documents that had been sought by state investigators.

The investigators were appointed last year by Attorney General Jay…

I KNOW we’re late getting in on this fight, but other journalistic tasks have intervened.

Yesterday, and again today, state Rep. Sam Page, a Democrat running for lieutenant governor, “called on Acting Governor Peter Kinder to release backup e-mail records being held…