UPDATE 2: The Missouri Republican Party isn’t buying that patronage is gone from the fee office process. From MRP spokesman Jon Prouty: Nixon “is now falsely boasting that he somehow ‘ended’ Missouri’s patronage system when, in fact, he has rewarded…
JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri House has passed and sent to the governor a bill that would rein in a stormwater runoff fee charged by the Metropolitan Sewer District in St. Louis County.
Under the bill (SB242), the sewer district couldn’t charge the fee to homeowners…
May
JEFFERSON CITY — Where does Brian May stand on the question of subsidizing professional sports stadiums? Sen. Tim Green wants to know.
May, a former state House member from St. Louis, has been nominated by Gov. Jay Nixon to serve on…
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…
JEFFERSON CITY — The Senate spent all morning talking education, and it still hasn’t gotten through the whole discussion.
It was debating a bill, sponsored by President Pro Tem Charlie Shields, that would allow virtual classes and change how the school funding…
Stouffer
JEFFERSON CITY — The Senate today discussed a bill from Sen. Bill Stouffer, R-Napton, that would decrease the amount of time that cars can sit on the side of rural freeways and highways before the cars get towed.
Sen. Tim Green,…
