A Missouri lawmaker has proposed legislation that would require members of the Missouri General Assembly to be subjected to random drug testing during the session.
More with less was the theme of the UM System Board of Curators' first meeting of 2012. The curators met Thursday and Friday at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and reviewed options to help bridge the gap created by Gov. Jay Nixon's proposed 15.1 percent cut to higher education this year.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Flanked by representatives from Missouri pro sports teams prior to the Kansas-Missouri basketball game, Gov. Jay Nixon launched an effort to build 35 houses in tornado-devastated Joplin.
State Rep. Jay Barnes remains unhappy with Secretary of State Robin Carnahan's office over an initiative petition seeking Missouri voters' support for a new renewable energy law.
Missouri is spending an estimated $7 million for what amounts to one of the largest public opinion polls of the Republican presidential race. Too bad few people seem to care.
WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney outpaced other GOP presidential hopefuls and President Barack Obama in Missouri fundraising last year, drawing heavily from St. Louis-area business leaders the former Massachusetts governor began cultivating during his first run for the White House.
There is nothing members of the Missouri House, particularly Republicans, like to talk about more than what they call our country's "entitlement" culture.
It's a sign of the times that the interim president of the University of Missouri System began his "state of the university" message with a roundup of cost-saving measures.
Four years ago, Missouri became one of the first states in the nation to require incoming kindergartners to get a comprehensive eye exam by an optometrist or physician. The goal was to catch problems early, perhaps heading off diseases that could lead to vision loss and improving academic performance.
JOPLIN, Mo. — The State Emergency Management Agency has rejected funding for individual storm shelters, but SEMA says it will earmark $20 million to build community safe rooms in Joplin.
After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.
