A new study of Missouri’s public defender system — which provides lawyers for indigent defendants in criminal cases — says the system’s lawyers are so underpaid, overworked and badly supervised that they’re like the pilots of the commuter plane that crashed…
David Carson/Post-Dispatch
Missouri’s governor has overwhelming power over St. Louis’ Board of Police Commissioners, the governing body of the city police department. Four of the board’s five members are his appointees; the city’s mayor is the ex-officio fifth member.
Police commissioners get a…
AP Photo/Jack Dempsey
Update: Read the governor’s Veto Message here.
Tony Messenger reports that Gov. Jay Nixon will veto the bill that would repeal the Missouri law that requires motorcyclists to wear helmets:
“In terms of lives and of dollars, the cost of repealing…
AP Photo/L.G. Patterson
The statement from his office released today:
Gov. Jay Nixon today said he is committed to the State of Missouri participating in the development and adoption of a common core of state standards in English language arts and mathematics…
Christian Gooden/Post-Dispatch
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon missed the boat when he decided against joining — even for the time being — 46 other states that have agreed to work together to develop common standards for language arts and mathematics in grades kindergarten…
Missouri's execution chamber in Bonne Terre. Gabriel B. Tait/Post-Dispatch
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon soon must decide whether to spare the life of a man on death row — or give the execution the green light. It’s the second time in less…
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (John L. White|Post-Dispatch)
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is no stranger to the death penalty. Through 16 years as state attorney general, he and his staff pursued death sentences in a long list of criminal cases. It was part…
Emily Rasinski | Post-Dispatch
A narrow beam of light seemed to break through the Missouri Legislature’s dismal session earlier this month.
House Speaker Ron Richard came to the phone to tell us how he and his fellow Republican representatives understood the pain experienced…
Passengers wait for No. 70 bus at the Grand MetroLink station. Elie Gardner|Post-Dispatch.
Last week, Gov. Jay Nixon appeared at St. Louis’ Humane Society to show support for small animals and opposition to Missouri puppy mills.
This week, maybe he’ll show up…
St. Louis schools board member Donna Jones and union president Mary Armstrong yell at State Bd. of Ed. Commissioner D. Kent King after the board voted to install transitional team. Robert Cohen | Post-Dispatch
Pop quiz: Who represents St. Louis…
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, left, and MoDOT Director Peter Rahn (Laurie Skrivan | Post-Dispatch)
Missouri’s Highways and Transportation Commission will hold a special meeting on Thursday afternoon to divvy up more than $400 million in federal stimulus money allocated to Missouri…
House Budget Committee Chairman Allen Icet, R-Wildwood
Missouri lawmakers should not let ideology stand in the way of health care for the working poor.
Gov. Jay Nixon and the Missouri Hospital Association have come up with a plan to extend health insurance to…
AP Photo/L.G. Patterson
Missourians have a right to know where Gov. Jay Nixon stands on the allocation of federal stimulus money coming to Missouri for transportation projects.
The federal money comes with some strings attached, and it’s Mr. Nixon’s job to ensure that…
Brittanie Williams | Post-Dispatch
The intricacies of financing new nuclear power plants are painfully complex. Ditto for utility regulation. So in pushing plans to expand the Callaway nuclear power plant, utility giant AmerenUE has relied on a simple appeal: Trust us.
The company…
Reconfiguring the Chestnut Street interchange off of I-64 is among the projects proposed by the city of St. Louis. (J.B. Forbes | Post-Dispatch)
Federal stimulus funds heading this way for road and bridge projects will create work and inject cash into the…
Lucky Jay Nixon
It’s far too early to say whether Jay Nixon will be a good governor, but Missouri’s new chief executive has one thing going for him: Timing.
Like his two immediate predecessors, Democrat Bob Holden and Republican Matt Blunt, Mr.…
Robert Cohen/Post-Dispatch
As economic conditions worsen, a reckoning is underway nearly everywhere. The financial industry has accepted unprecedented government involvement. Local governments are searching for ways to pay their bills and maintain basic services. The American auto industry is dancing around bankruptcy.…
AmerenUE
Missouri’s Public Service Commission is supposed to be an honest broker, fairly assessing the often conflicting interests of large utility companies and their customers.
That’s not how things have worked over the last few years. Instead, the playing field has tilted…
