– The Republican National Committee will make its first formal visit to Kansas City on Friday, as it continues to narrow down sites for the 2016 Republican National Convention. In a statement on Thursday, Chairman of the Missouri Republican Party…
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Eli Yokley is editor in chief of PoliticMo, and also serves as a political contributor to The Joplin Globe and the St. Louis Business Journal. He can be reached at eli@politicmo.com.
Lawmakers send reforms to state’s criminal code to governor
by Eli Yokley •
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – For the first time in more than three decades, Missouri legislators have moved to update the state’s criminal code.
The legislature’s tax cut back-up plan
by Eli Yokley •
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon has been very clear about his opposition to the legislature’s latest tax cut proposal, Senate Bill 509.
Mo. House Judiciary committee begins Nixon impeachment hearings
by Eli Yokley •
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Just hours after a bald eagle soared mightily over the Missouri House chamber, the passage of impeachment resolutions in a House committee failed to take flight. Lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee were openly skeptical of…
Missouri House lets the Eagle soar
by Eli Yokley •
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – As former U.S. Attorney General and Missouri Governor John Ashcroft might have sung, leven-year old Clark the Eagle soared over the Missouri House chamber Wednesday morning.
This year is the seventh anniversary of the bald eagle, the official bird of the United States of America, being taken off the endangered species list.
Nixon questions Sinquefield involvement in latest tax cut bill
by Eli Yokley •
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon suggested on Tuesday that something more mischievous may be at play with a provision in the legislature’s tax bill that his office believes could eliminate state income taxes on incomes of more…
A fatal flaw in Missouri’s latest tax cut effort?
by Eli Yokley •
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon dispatched top aides on Wednesday as he began to law out his latest case against the legislature’s tax cut: What he sees as a fatal flaw in drafting that could eliminate much…
Nixon-alum Crystal Brinkley to serve as new director of Missouri Democratic Party
by Eli Yokley •
– The Missouri Democratic Party announced on Monday that Crystal Brinkley will serve as its new executive director. Brinkley, the party’s current finance director, comes from a familiar pool of candidates for the state party: Jay Nixon alumni. Joe Duffy,…
In tax cut fight, outside groups to “ratchet up” focus on early childhood education
by Eli Yokley •
Legislature gives broad approval to e-cigarette regulation, but Democrats raise concerns
by Eli Yokley •
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Both chambers of the state Legislature approved legislation on Thursday that would ban minors from purchasing electronic vapor cigarettes.