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Court throws out Arrow Rock hog farm ruling

An appeals court has thrown out a judge’s controversial ruling that barred a hog farm from opening near a state historic site. Cole County Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce’s 2009 order had also set a number of restrictions on existing concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, within two miles of the village of Arrow Rock in [...]

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Lawmaker says he may block Bindbeutel nomination

A Republican state senator says he will block for now the nomination of one of Gov. Jay Nixon’s longtime aides to the Administrative Hearing Commission. Sen. Kurt Schaefer, a Columbia senator who is also an attorney for Lathrop & Gage, said he was putting a ‘hold’ on Joe Bindbeutel’s nomination. Gubernatorial appointees traditionally must have [...]

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Longtime state attorney headed for DNR jobs

Attorney Bill Bryan has been tapped to be deputy director of the Department of Natural Resources and lead the Division of State Parks. Bryan becomes deputy director, filling a spot left open when Joe Bindbeutel left. Bindbeutel took the blame for the agency’s delay in releasing a May report showing elevated levels of E. coli at Lake [...]

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