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Posts Tagged ‘Missouri General Assembly’

Winners and Losers of Missouri’s 2024 Legislative Session

By | May 20, 2024 | 0
The Missouri House of Representatives commemorates the end of the 2024 legislative session by tossing hard copies of bills into the air upon adjournment.

Dysfunction defined the Missouri legislative session, which ended last week after passing the fewest bills in history. Here are the winners and losers.

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Democrats Filibuster Bill Making it Harder to Amend Missouri Constitution

By | May 14, 2024 | 0
Senate Minority Leader John Rizzo, D-Independence, speaks Thursday at a weekly leadership news conference with (from left) Sens. Doug Beck, D-Affton, Steve Roberts, D-St. Louis, and Brian Williams, D-University City.

Democrats are fighting legislative efforts to make it harder to amend the Missouri Constitution. An initiative seeks to get abortion access on the fall ballot.

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The Missouri Legislature is Cutting Local Governments’ Power to Pass Their Own Laws

By | May 8, 2024 | 1
Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City.

Republican statehouses like Missouri’s increasingly limit what rules places like Kansas City can adopt — typically shutting down more progressive policies.

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Raymore Approves Deal Designed to Kill Kansas City Landfill

By | April 16, 2024 | 0
A sign just outside Creekmoor, a golf course subdivision in Raymore, implores drivers to stop a proposed landfill less than a mile away. The Raymore City Council on Monday adopted legislation that would offer a payment to developers of the proposed landfill to abandon their plans for the site.

A controversial landfill proposed for south Kansas City is likely dead after Raymore approved a deal with developers designed to kill the project.

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Missouri Lawmakers Push Tax Break to Expand Kansas City Nuclear Weapons Facility

By | March 15, 2024 | 0
Entrance to the National Nuclear Safety Administration's facility in Kansas City.

Kansas City-area lawmakers want to give a sales tax break to expand a federal facility that builds non-nuclear components for the nation’s nuclear stockpile. 

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