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Missouri General Assembly

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Vote In the State Primary! Or Don't. Whatever, Who Cares?

    ​Missouri's presidential primary is Tuesday, February 7. It's your chance to tell your party who you want to see represent you as president. Except that if you're planning on selecting someone from the Republican section of the ballot, your choice doesn't matter -- and that's not me saying that, i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    What Are Missourians Required to Do When Faced With Jerry Sandusky-Style "Horseplay"?

    image via​Say Mike McQueary had stumbled on Jerry Sandusky engaging in "horseplay" (as Sandusky described it to Bob Costas on Monday night) with a ten-year-old boy in a shower in Columbia instead of State College. Forget questions of moral obligation versus moral cowardice. Would our hypotheti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    Local Control Will Likely Have to Wait, Again

    Special Session in Jeff City is not going according to plan.​Remember the scene in Juice when Bishop, Q, Raheem and Steel rob the corner store? They had everything all planned out. They timed the police patrols. They brought gloves, masks, and a gun. They knew old man Quiles, the owner, would be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Missouri AG Renews Call for Banning Over-the-Counter Sale of Pseudoephedrine

    ​Speaking to the Missouri Sheriffs Association yesterday in Joplin, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster reiterated his desire to see a statewide ban on the over-the-counter sale of pseudoephedrine, the key ingredient for meth. For the tenth year in a row, Missouri has led the nation in the numb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Puppy Mill Law Enforced for First Time; 70 Dogs Taken from Missouri Breeder

    The dogs rescued lived among rodent droppings. Old and sick dogs had been shot to death.​Inspectors from the Missouri Department of Agriculture today removed more than 70 dogs from a Monett-based breeder in the first-ever enforcement of the state's new Canine Cruelty Prevention Act. Violations ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Joplin Teachers Urge Nixon to Veto Facebook Bill

    State Representative Jane Cunningham has no problem with child labor -- but boy is Facebook dangerous to Missouri's youngsters!​The Missouri Legislature passed a bill two weeks ago designed to protect children from predatory school teachers. But the bill has stirred up some surprising opposition - ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    On the Tenth Day the Missouri Legislature Created Prayer

    We're guessing that this isn't the kind of prayer Missouri legislators want to guarantee.​Tenth day of May, that is. Yes, yesterday the Missouri Legislature passed another proposed amendment to the Missouri Constitution. If passed by Missouri voters in 2012, the amendment would guarantee the right ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    St. Louis to Crack Down on Bath Salts

    High quality, indeed.​The St. Louis Board of Aldermen will soon consider a bill to outlaw the sale and possession of synthetic cocaine marketed as bath salts.  KMOX reports that St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce is pushing the bill sponsored by Alderman Greg Carter (Ward 27). "These ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Race Trumps Politics in Missouri Redistricting

    Nasheed: Black before Democrat.​Yesterday the Missouri Legislature overrode Governor Jay Nixon's veto of a redistricting map that eliminates the district of Democratic Congressman Russ Carnahan. In securing the override, the Republican-controlled Legislature needed the votes of four Democrats. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    U.S. Attorney: Feds Could Challenge Missouri Anti-Sharia Legislation

    Muslim women take part in the Pledge of Allegiance during last night's event​U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Richard Callahan visited the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis last night to address the fears and frustrations of Muslim Americans who worry they are being rac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Missouri Ethics Law Gets Bounced by Cole County Judge

    An issue relating to the Capitol dome, of all things, has led to Missouri's landmark ethics bill getting thrown out.​We should have known it wouldn't be this easy.Eleven months ago, the Missouri Legislature passed landmark ethics legislation, banning donations from one political action committee t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Nearly 100,000 Missouri Veterans Honored

    Medal for World War II vets.​For more than a decade, the state of Missouri has awarded medals and certificates to all its native -- or transplanted -- sons and daughters who've served in World War II, the Korean War or the Vietnam War . And the program is coming up on quite a milestone: 100,000 ve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Dos and Dont's This Mardi Gras (As Told To Us By the St. Louis Police)

    A scene from last year's Mardi Gras. More photos here.​Changes made last year in the Missouri Legislature means that for the first time in recent memory, agents with the state's Alcohol and Tobacco Control won't be assisting St. Louis police in monitoring underage drinking at this Saturday's Mardi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Wisconsin Walkout: Could It Happen in Missouri?

    Missouri Governor Jay Nixon: He's no Scott Walker.​Catching up on the news from Wisconsin -- where Democratic state senators have gone on the lam rather than give Governor Scott Walker the quorum he needs to gut state workers' collective-bargaining rights -- we found ourselves wondering: Could suc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2011

    Missouri Legislature Targets Midwives

    The Missouri Medical Association is trying to stop midwives -- again.​Four years ago, the Missouri Legislature decriminalized midwifery -- making it legal for a woman who's certified by one of two national midwives' organizations to deliver babies here.But the state's physicians don't like the com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    Dead Missourians, Now in a Convenient Online Database

    Maybe she'd have lived longer if she'd laid off the home-churned butter.​Plenty of interesting people died in the great state of Missouri. And now, thanks to the work of 275 volunteers -- no word on what percentage of them identify as goths -- and the Missouri State Archives, you can cruise their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Challenging Nudity Restrictions on Missouri Adult Businesses

    ​A Cole County judge last week granted a summary judgment request that has -- for now -- thrown out a lawsuit challenging Missouri's recent restrictions on strip clubs and adult bookstores. The Missouri Legislature last year passed sweeping reforms that outlaw nudity at such businesses in addition ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Missouri House Votes to Allow Drug Tests for Welfare Recipients

    Official Seal of the Missouri Legislature​The Missouri House yesterday passed along a bill to the Senate that they hope will allow for the drug testing of welfare recipients. H.B. 76, sponsored by Ellen Brandom (R-Sikeston), passed the House by a whopping 121-37 vote margin and would allow any wel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Missouri Legislators Are Storm Tough -- Unlike Illinois Pansies

    State Rep. Cynthia Davis (R-O'Fallon) photographed on her way to work this morning.​Say what you will about Missouri legislators, there's one insult you cannot hurl at our state's elected officials. They're not wussies when it comes to the weather. Yes, while their counterparts in Illinois turn an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    12-Step Plan to Clean Up Lake of the Ozarks Noticeably Void of Alcohol Restraint

    The first step is admitting you have a problem.​Attorney General Chris Koster yesterday proposed twelve recommendation for improving the notoriously icky water quality at the Lake of the Ozarks.Here at Riverfront Times we are amazed that none of the twelve steps (described below) have anything to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Police Chief Equates Speed Cameras to Acne

    Tim Fitch: Won't zit zilent.​St. Louis County's top cop had some more entertaining things to say this week about the use of speed cameras in Missouri. Speaking to KDHX's host D.J. Wilson on Monday, county police chief Tim Fitch referred to the cameras as special kind of irritant -- acne. "You're g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Missouri Poised to Lead Nation in Meth Lab Busts For Fourth Straight Year

    Courtesy of the Missouri State Highway PatrolMissouri busted 1,776 meth labs last year and we're on pace for more than 1,800 in 2010.​Missouri has already done the three-peat -- leading the nation in meth lab seizures for three consecutive years, including a whopping 1,774 busts last year, nearly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    K2 Ban Now in Gov. Jay Nixon's Hands

    Image SourceK2 wasn't an issue in Bogey's day.​The Missouri Legislature approved a ban on K2 "synthetic marijuana" last Friday and sent the measure to Gov. Jay Nixon for approval. The proposed law essentially puts K2 on the same legal plane as real marijuana, making possession of less than 35 gram ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    State Rep. Maria Chappelle-Nadal Has A Grande Problem With Mark Parkinson's Immigration Law

    Image sourceMaria Chappelle-Nadal is smiling but really she's outraged.​Last week, we reported on HB 2449 and Rep. Mark Parkinson's plan to propose a strict new immigration law in Missouri similar to the one recently enacted in Arizona. On Monday, the Republican from St. Charles explained that he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    Washington and St. Clair -- Latest Missouri Towns to Outlaw Fake Marijuana

    ​The Washington city council voted on Monday to outlaw the sale or possession of synthetic marijuana, such as K2. The Washington law is similar to one passed in St. Charles County earlier this year. Also on Monday, alderman in St. Clair also approved a law banning fake marijuana products.Meanwhile ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Missouri's Pettis County Bans K2 Synthetic Marijuana

    Image via Wikipedia​Let the fake reefer madness continue: Pettis County -- located about 75 miles southwest of Columbia -- became the first municipality in America to ban the synthetic marijuana product K2 yesterday.The AP picked up the story this morning from the Sedalia Democrat:Prosecuting Atto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    State Senator Jeff Smith Rumored To Be Stepping Down

    Local politicos are a-wag over rumors that Sen. Jeff Smith, who represents part of St. Louis in the Missouri General Assembly, will soon announce he's stepping down because of legal problems.Daily RFT reached out to Smith this morning but hasn't yet gotten his response. More next week.​

  • News

    May 27, 2009

    Butt Heads: At the State Capitol, a Different Set of Smoking Rules Applies

    Local politicos are a-wag over rumors that Sen. Jeff Smith, who represents part of St. Louis in the Missouri General Assembly, will soon announce he's stepping down because of legal problems.Daily RFT reached out to Smith this morning but hasn't yet gotten his response. More next week.​

  • News

    May 27, 2009

    Butt Heads: Want to know where our public officials stand on smoking bans? OK, we'll ask 'em!

    Local politicos are a-wag over rumors that Sen. Jeff Smith, who represents part of St. Louis in the Missouri General Assembly, will soon announce he's stepping down because of legal problems.Daily RFT reached out to Smith this morning but hasn't yet gotten his response. More next week.​

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2009

    State Legislature to St. Louis Public Schools: Sell, or Else

    The charter-school lobby is getting down to brass tacks in its real-estate beef with the St. Louis Public Schools. Wikimedia Commons...to charter schools.Last week state Senator Jim Lembke introduced a bill in the Missouri General Assembly which prohibits any school district from putting deed restri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2009

    "Knight Rider" Fans Optimistic Sen. Kit Bond Will Return To Acting

    In a speech to the Missouri General Assembly this morning, Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond announced that he won't seek a fifth term in office in 2010. "In 1972, I became Missouri's youngest Governor. Ladies and Gentlemen, I do not aspire to become Missouri's oldest Senator," said Bond. T ... More >>

  • News

    January 23, 2008

    Bowling for Dollars

    Bowling alley owners hope to be spared from what they call an unfair tax.

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2007

    MO Midwifery Bill Lives

    Bowling alley owners hope to be spared from what they call an unfair tax.

  • News

    October 4, 2006

    A ghost scares the pee out of Unreal. But then we meet an extraordinary parrot, and stick it to the Webster Groves PD.

    Week of October 5, 2006

  • News

    March 26, 2003

    Best Shot

    St. Louis police may be close to getting the right to live where they want

  • News

    May 22, 2002

    House of Cards

    So the Cardinals are taking bids. Good luck.

  • News

    September 12, 2001

    The Big Fix

    Public schools are broke all over, so why are only St. Louis and Kansas City getting charter schools?

  • News

    April 11, 2001

    Homer Town

    When it comes to a new stadium, not even opening day is immune from a sales pitch

  • News

    May 24, 2000

    St. Louisans, Start Your Engines

    Missouri again thumbs its nose at the area's mass-transit needs

  • News

    March 29, 2000

    Missing the Big Picture

    Missouri's tax system needs an overhaul, not a holiday

  • News

    March 22, 2000

    Money Walks

    Did a state representative yank the purse strings in an effort to frighten off a would-be challenger to one of his closest allies?

  • News

    March 15, 2000

    Take the Public Out of This Ball Game

    Did a state representative yank the purse strings in an effort to frighten off a would-be challenger to one of his closest allies?

  • News

    October 6, 1999

    TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME

    Minneapolis-based Conventions, Sports & Leisure International is hired to advise the Greater St. Louis Sports Authority on issues surrounding a new baseball stadium

  • News

    September 15, 1999

    IMAGINE A BETTER NEWSPAPER

    "Imagine St. Louis": Fighting for truth, justice and the American way?

  • News

    September 1, 1999

    Killing Doctors with Kindness

    "Pro-lifers" go warm-and-fuzzy

  • News

    May 5, 1999

    The Pro-Life Movement Strikes Again

    "Pro-lifers" go warm-and-fuzzy

  • News

    January 27, 1999

    The End of the Line for St. Louis Schools

    Why a "yes" vote on Tuesday is more important than you might think

  • News

    January 20, 1999

    Milky Way

    Breast-feeding is better for babies, better for mothers, better for society -- so why is the practice shrouded in shame?

  • News

    January 6, 1999

    The End of Deseg As We Know It

    City schools face an uncertain future -- a crucial court settlement, a Feb. 2 sales-tax vote, a teachers' union opposed to the tax, accreditation tests this spring and the prospect of a state takeover. It could be a school year from hell.

  • News

    November 25, 1998

    Justice for All

    City schools face an uncertain future -- a crucial court settlement, a Feb. 2 sales-tax vote, a teachers' union opposed to the tax, accreditation tests this spring and the prospect of a state takeover. It could be a school year from hell.

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