Just over one-third of Missouri’s eligible voters are expected to show up when voters head to the polls for the midterm election on Tuesday. With no heated statewide election and only a handful of competitive local races throughout the state,…
Attorney General Chris Koster is facing some of the strongest criticism he has faced since he left the Republican Party in 2008, but for now, top Missouri Democrats are standing quietly by. The timing of a searing story on the…
As he readies to launch a likely campaign for governor in 2016, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster, a Democrat, has a problem on his hands.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Since he became Newton County’s prosecuting attorney in 2008, Jake Skouby says he has charged more than 200 people, alleging sex crimes involving child. In that same time period, he says, his office has only been…
– Right before polls close on election night in 2014, U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt will already be thinking about election night in 2016. That night, Blunt – a first-term Republican who is expected to seek reelection in two years – is scheduled…
– After four years in Washington D.C., U.S. Rep. Billy Long says he is “still fed up,” and has a new target for his criticism: political ads. Long – a conservative who was sent to Washington on the slogan, “Fed Up!”…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – There is no longer an organized campaign in support of a measure that would change Missouri’s constitution to ban teacher tenure and institute performance-based teacher evaluations, but that is not stopping a PAC aligned with the state’s…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — If a Missouri voter wants to cast a ballot on a day other than a designated Election Day, he is required to provide an excuse and sign an affidavit with his local election authority swearing he…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — State Senate Majority Leader Ron Richard, R-Joplin, does not have an opponent on the ballot next month, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at his campaign account. Richard, the second most powerful man in the…
– State Auditor Tom Schwiech’s campaign has fired the first shot in the 2016 Republican gubernatorial primary. On Wednesday, hours after the only declared candidate Catherine Hanaway reported a $750,000 contribution from St. Louis billionaire Rex Sinquefield, Schweich advisor Nathan…