May 2023

Help for low-income and disabled Missourians a focus in final days of session

JEFFERSON CITY – In the Missouri House, proposals that would help citizens with disabilities, those with low incomes, and new mothers on state assistance, are being given every chance to become law before the end of the session next week.  The chamber has voted to add those pieces of legislation to several bills that are […]

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Illinois State Police release additional names of victims in 72-vehicle fatal crash on I-55

FARMERSVILLE – The Illinois State Police (ISP) is releasing five additional names of the seven people fatally injured in multiple crashes that occurred on May 1, 2023 at approximately 10:55 a.m. on both northbound and southbound Interstate 55 between mile markers 72 and 78 near Farmersville in Montgomery County.   A total of 72 vehicles

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Legislature votes to encourage film productions, touring musicians to come to Missouri

JEFFERSON CITY – With the third piece of statutory legislation to reach the governor this year the legislature tries to bring more entertainment industry projects and the dollars that come with them to Missouri.   House lawmakers have for years bemoaned the fact that major motion picture and television productions bypass the Show-Me State for

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Literacy Working Group unveils bold legislative package

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois State Representative Dave Severin (R-Benton) was appointed to serve as the House Republican chairman of the Literacy Improves Future Endeavors working group by Illinois House Republican Leader Tony McCombie back in February of this year.   Since that time, Rep. Severin and his House GOP colleagues have met several times hearing from

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MSHP reports

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri State Highway Patrol has released its latest arrest reports.   Arrested were:   29-year-old Jasimen M. Williams of St. Louis at 1:10 p.m. May 5th in Ste. Genevieve County on a St. Charles County warrant for speeding. He was being held in the Ste. Genevieve County Jail pending the posting

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Our first 100 days

By Jason Smith, member of Congress In the two years following Joe Biden’s inauguration, nearly everything he touched under one-party Democrat rule turned into a crisis. His executive actions and the administration’s policies created an energy crisis; the massive spending he championed set off the worst inflation crisis in 40 years; and Washington Democrat’s embrace

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