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…

JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Jay Nixon paid his first visit to the House of Representatives today to campaign for the economic development bill that’s been stalled in the Senate.

Nixon said he’s “cautiously optimistic” about the bill’s chances this week.

“I just feel…

Got (Missouri) milk? Not for long, dairy farmers say.

JEFFERSON CITY — Citing decreasing milk costs and the number of Missouri jobs created by its production, the Missouri House of Representatives voted today to direct unused tax credits to dairy farmers.

The bill,…

JEFFERSON CITY — Tune in tonight if you want to hear the long-awaited Senate debate on Gov. Jay Nixon’s jobs bill.

Senators plan to take up the bill at 8 p.m. and debate it as long as it takes to wrap…

Lager

JEFFERSON CITY — Sen. Brad Lager has fine-tuned his plan to cap all state tax credit programs and expects to pitch the changes to fellow senators today.

The substitute bill would limit historic preservation credits to $75 million a year instead of the…

JEFFERSON CITY — Senators have taken up their long-awaited alternative to Gov. Jay Nixon’s jobs bill, and historic preservationists are not going to be happy.

The massive, 250-page bill includes a $50 million annual cap on tax credits for restoring historic…

Low

JEFFERSON CITY — Few have dared question the jobs bill speeding through the Legislature. Count Beth Low among those few.

Low, D-Kansas City, says in a strongly worded statement today that the bill “will do nothing to create jobs” and amounts…

In a conference call with reporters today, Sen. Charlie Shields said that Republican leaders in the Senate and Gov.-elect Jay Nixon are on the same page in terms of job creation issues and tax credits.

Shields, who will be the Senate president…

Once a year, the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Tax Policy decides whether to recommend that any tax credits be abolished. Today was that long-awaited meeting.

Interest groups that rely on the credits were nervous, since the state faces a $342…

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…