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…
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.…
President-elect Obama meets with the nation's governors Tuesday in Philadelphia. (Jeff Hayes/Getty Images)
If it’s any consolation to Jay Nixon, Missouri’s governor-elect, that $342 million shortfall in the state budget he inherits Jan. 12 is chump change compared with the problems that…
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…
