In Sunday’s third installment of a Post-Dispatch series on loopholes in Missouri’s drunk driving laws, we learned that the state law that mandates a one year-suspension of driving privileges for drivers who refuse to take a breathalyzer test often is a joke.

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For a guy who focused so relentlessly on health care as a candidate, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has been remarkably quiet of late.
At a time when health care dominates the national debate, Mr. Nixon is one of just six Democratic…

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This must be emphasized: Whatever Gov. Jay Nixon is saying this week, the Lake of the Ozarks is safe for fishing and boating. And nearly all of its 55,000 acres are safe for swimming, too. But more should be done…

Nursing homes shouldn’t be in the business of making high-interest loans to their workers. But in Missouri, more than 90 of them are. They routinely charge annual interest rates exceeding 300 percent. In one case, workers are charged a jaw-dropping…

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon will soon, possibly as early as today, make one of his most important appointments since taking office in January: He will try, for the second time, to fill the fifth seat on the Missouri Public Service Commission.

The…

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Tuesday released his hold on $1.5 million in state funding for the 2009 Tour of Missouri, the cross-state bicycle race that is a pet project of Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder.

The race, scheduled for Sept. 7-13, will…

Rick Sullivan (right) talks with parents and teachers at a meeting in 2007. Huy Richard Mach | Post-Dispatch

Gov. Jay Nixon is a key figure in the stability of St. Louis Public Schools. There’s no avoiding it — the district’s hard-fought battle…

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon did something a little weird last Thursday: He vetoed $33,000 from the Department of Transportation’s budget to punish MoDOT for commissioning a poll on Missourians’ attitudes about the Legislature’s decision to lift the state law requiring…

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has asked state legislators to submit proposals for a major capital program to fund projects on university campuses and at other state facilities. It’s a sound idea.

The money, perhaps as much as $1 billion, would be…

This just in from Gov. Jay Nixon’s office:

Gov. Nixon signs bill legalizing tractor parades

Jefferson City, Mo. – Standing next to an antique 1951 John Deere Model A tractor on the South Lawn of the State Capitol, Gov. Jay Nixon today…

Among the winners.

With the Missouri Legislature, you have take adequacy when it happens, even when the news is not as good as it should have been.

So let’s hear one hand clapping for the legislators who managed to set ideology aside…

Republican lawmakers in Missouri have a problem: They’d like to reduce the number of uninsured Missourians. But they don’t want to admit that their 2005 Medicaid cuts were a mistake — or hand Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon a political victory.
Mr.…

Among MOSERS' less successful investments was $3.5 million lost to swindler Bernie Madoff.

Compared with the AIG bonus scandal, the revelation that 14 employees of the Missouri State Employees Retirement System got nearly $300,000 in bonuses for losing $1.8 billion last year hardly…

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A Missouri Senate committee is to vote this afternoon on a revised — but still deeply flawed — utility bill that was written to benefit the state’s largest electric company.
AmerenUE has applied for a federal permit to build a new…

The Post-Dispatch's R.J. Matson paid homage to Charles Addams in a Halloween, 2007, cartoon about the sliming of Scott Eckersley.

And so the great Matt Blunt-Ed Martin-Henry Herschel e-mail saga ends not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Two state-appointed investigators…

If $4.3 billion of federal money falls into the hands of Missouri legislators, will they be smart enough to take full advantage of it?
The answer, unfortunately, may be no. Even after hearing details of the unexpected windfall in federal stimulus money —…

Missouri Public Service Commissioner Jeff Davis is a walking conflict of interest. Since 2005, he’s been involved in four incidents that raise questions about his objectivity and that of the utility regulatory body on which he serves.
In a tearful 2007 interview…

Time to downsize campaign cash.

Wafting over the impeachment and removal from office last week of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was the faint odor of hypocrisy. With his brazen and profane greed, the now-former governor may have exposed Illinois’ culture of…

MOHELA: No buildings, fewer loans, but lots of walnuts.

Our colleague Kavita Kumar reports in today’s paper:

Gov. Jay Nixon’s administration sent letters to five universities this week alerting them that millions of dollars they had been counting on for campus construction projects…

The Swedish Bikini Team, plus Jay Nixon: What an evening!

At 7 o’clock tonight, you could watch “NCIS” on CBS, “American Idol” on Fox, “The Biggest Loser” on NBC or even “Nova” on PBS. But serious wonks will want to be…