Missouri lawmakers have introduced at least six separate proposals since last month to restrict the use of cellphones while driving. Missouri has seen the numbers of cellphone-related traffic crashes increase by 35 percent since 2014. Cellphone use is “one of ...

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Missouri lawmakers have introduced at least six separate proposals since last month to restrict the use of cellphones while driving. Missouri has seen the numbers of cellphone-related traffic crashes increase by 35 percent since 2014. Cellphone use is “one of ...

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Some Missouri lawmakers are pushing legislation that could end a long-running economic border war between their state and Kansas that has prompted both states to spend millions of dollars in the last decade to lure businesses in the Kansas City ...

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Some Missouri lawmakers are pushing legislation that could end a long-running economic border war between their state and Kansas that has prompted both states to spend millions of dollars in the last decade to lure businesses in the Kansas City ...

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Missouri lawmakers returned to the state Capitol on Monday for a special session on bills vetoed by Gov. Mike Parson, including ones on drug-treatment courts and education in science, technology, engineering and math. Parson called the Republican-led Legislature back to ...

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Missouri lawmakers returned to the state Capitol on Monday for a special session on bills vetoed by Gov. Mike Parson, including ones on drug-treatment courts and education in science, technology, engineering and math. Parson called the Republican-led Legislature back to ...

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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has called the Missouri Legislature into special session the week of Sept. 10-14 to pass a bill to help treatment courts. Parson vetoed the treatment-court bill in July. Although he said such courts “serve a valuable ...

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A bill on its way to Gov. Jay Nixon makes a number of changes in the state’s employment discrimination law, making it harder for fired workers to win in court.

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It’s a climate that pits schoolchildren against health care, a time when a Democratic governor brags about plans to slash $1.8 billion from the state budget and cut 3,300 state jobs during his tenure. And yet state judges stand poised to get a bump in pay in 2012. How in the world did it happen?

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After the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District struck down an administrative rule allowing the public defender system to regulate its caseload, the leader of the system asked a House committee for a legislative fix. Such a bill has already ...

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A measure to change how Missouri chooses judges for its highest courts moves forward in the Missouri Senate. Today a Senate committee endorsed a modified version of a proposed constitutional amendment to modify the state’s so-called Nonpartisan Court Plan. A ...

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