Gov. Jay Nixon expressed opposition Monday to legislation that would let Missouri teachers carry concealed guns into classrooms, describing it as “the wrong approach” after the recent deadly shootings at a Connecticut elementary school.
Any public school teacher or administrator with a concealed-weapon permit would be allowed to carry guns in Missouri schools under a bill …
Any teacher or administrator with a concealed weapon permit could carry guns in Missouri schools.
Republicans have dominated the Missouri General Assembly for more than a decade. But for the last four years, the threat of a …
Missouri residents are done voting. But the lawmakers they have elected still have some votes to cast.
Republicans won a veto-proof supermajority in the Missouri House on Tuesday, picking up at least four seats and shrinking Democratic power in the state legislature to an historic low.
HANCOCK: Changes should not be slipped into bills in final days of legislative session.
It was a purely symbolic move when the Missouri House passed a resolution this week decrying the Obama administration’s mandate that health insurance policies include birth-control coverage.
House Speaker Tilley, Floor Leader Jones among them.
A reconfigured package of state aid that could benefit a wealthy St. Louis developer is complicating prospects for a special legislative session aimed at creating jobs across Missouri, lawmakers said.
JEFFERSON CITY | Only days after a massive economic-development and tax-credit reform package collapsed in flames, Missouri politicians and business leaders are sifting through the rubble looking for answers — and somebody to blame.
Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders went to bed Thursday convinced that the new boundary line drawn this week between Missouri’s 5th and 6th congressional districts ran right up the stairway of his Independence home.
JEFFERSON CITY | When it came to congressional redistricting, the Missouri lawmakers seemed to be following the philosophy of Duke Ellington.
The 96-55 roll call by which the Missouri House voted Wednesday to approve legislation redrawing the state’s congressional districtscongressional redistricting map.Voting “yes” were 93 Republicans…
JEFFERSON CITY | There are plenty of controversies surrounding the congressional redistricting process under way in the Missouri General Assembly, but the most relevant to the Kansas City area concerns a definition.
JEFFERSON CITY | A courier arrived Thursday in the Capitol to deliver Missouri’s political future.
Missouri on Tuesday lost out on the census sweepstakes, giving up a congressional seat it had hoped to keep and forfeiting a sizable chunk of political clout.
JEFFERSON CITY | Missouri House leaders have named the lawmakers who will take the chamber’s first crack at redrawing the state’s congressional districts.
Big majorities in Kansas, Missouri legislatures, along with governorship in the Sunflower State, will give Republicans power over drawing district lines.
JEFFERSON CITY | In practical terms, it may end up meaning nothing. But symbolically, Missouri’s health-care vote on Tuesday could have national implications.
JEFFERSON CITY | Hopes for a quick and easy special legislative session in Missouri — already tenuous — were dashed Monday, the session’s first day of substantive business.
