JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is empaneling a committee to study and recommend how to reform the state’s tax rates and credits. The state’s Republican chief executive signed an executive order Wednesday creating the 10-person “Governor’s Committee for Simple, Fair, and Low Taxes.” He says the current system is “broken,” hurting…
( KTRS ) Police reporting and incident on an assault Wednesday night. Not much has been released at this time. Police are only saying that a man was shot in the 4700 block of Hammett, around 8:25 pm. He was found conscious and breathing but was uncooperative with officers. The circumstances of the incident are unknown…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri utilities want lawmakers to pass a law to help them get money more quickly from customers to pay for infrastructure improvements. Ameren Missouri and other utilities told a panel of state senators Wednesday that a proposed bill to recover costs would enable modernization and could promote economic development. The…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s Republican-led Senate is advancing a right-to-work bill to ban mandatory union fees. Senators voted 21-12 to give the bill initial approval Wednesday. It needs another vote to move to the House, which has already passed an almost-identical bill. Three Republicans joined Democrats in voting against the proposal. Right to…
Jefferson City, MO (KTRS) Missouri’s new Republican attorney general says he doesn’t intend to live in Jefferson City, despite a state law that appears to require him to “reside” there. Josh Hawley lives about twenty miles north Jefferson City near Ashland. A state law says the attorney general “shall reside at the seat of government,”…
