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Bindbeutel withdrawn from nomination to AHC

The flap over E. coli levels at the Lake of the Ozarks cost Joe Bindbeutel an opportunity to serve on the Administrative Hearing Commission. Gov. Jay Nixon announced this morning that he had withdrawn Bindbeutel’s nomination to the commission that deals with disputes within state agencies. The decision, Nixon said, came after an internal investigation [...]

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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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