As a candidate for Missouri governor, Attorney General Jay Nixon told anyone who’d listen about his plans to restore Medicaid coverage to the more than 100,000 poor, elderly and disabled people who lost it in 2005.
On Tuesday, voters responded, sweeping…

With less than six months remaining in office, Gov. Matt Blunt and his administration are hard at work framing and burnishing their legacy.

They’ve been boasting about how well Mr. Blunt managed the state budget. In a press release issued last week, they…

Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt celebrated his leadership this week with a news release that claims that he has created “strong budgets, surpluses, while other states see red.”

The release adds: “Gov. Blunt’s strong, conservative fiscal management of Missouri’s budget turned an inherited $1.1…

Last week, as the Missouri Legislature was finishing work on the $22.5 billion 2009 state budget, an independent analysis of Missouri tax collections suggested that the state could find itself $500 million in the hole some time next year. The state’s…