Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced he will introduce 15 amendments to the Democrats’ newly-proposed $3.5 trillion budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2022. Senator Hawley’s amendments would allow for the hiring of 100,000 new police officers, restrict federal funding for K-12 schools that refuse to fully reopen, fight back against critical race theory, and protect the […]
(Missouri Independent) – Unlicensed youth residential facilities across Missouri are expected to submit materials notifying the state of their existence by mid-October, but background checks for facility staff required under a new law likely won’t be completed by that time. That’s because the Department of Social Services (DSS) is still working to make hires in […]
The Chillicothe City Council will hold a public hearing to consider an ordinance setting the property tax rates for the city. The hearing will be during the council’s meeting at the Chillicothe Municipal Utilities meeting room on August 9, 2021, at 5:30 pm. The proposed tax levy for all property real, personal, and mixed is […]
We’ll learn new details Friday in Jefferson City about how Missouri will proceed with voter-approved Medicaid expansion. The Missouri Supreme Court’s 14-page ruling includes a conclusion, which requires Friday’s hearing in Cole County Circuit Court. “For the reasons set forth above, the circuit court’s judgment is affirmed only insofar as it overruled the […]
The Families and Friends of the Developmentally Disabled in Grundy County will hold a tax levy hearing at its meeting next week. The group will meet in the conference room on the first floor of the Grundy County Courthouse in Trenton on August 9, 2021, at 6:30 in the evening. The proposed tax rate for FFDD […]
The Trenton R-9 Board of Education will hold a tax rate hearing before its regular meeting next week. The hearing will be at the district office on August 10, 2021, at 5:25 in the evening. The proposed tax levy for the current tax year is $4.4287 per $100 of assessed valuation. That is 1.52 cents […]
The annual tax levy public hearing for the city of Trenton and its park board is coming up in three weeks. The hearing will be held on August 23, 2021, at 7 o’clock in the evening at the Trenton City Hall. This years’ proposed rate is one point four cents lower than it was in […]
The Livingston County Commission will hold a tax rate hearing next week. The hearing will be at the courthouse in Chillicothe on August 3 at 11 o’clock in the morning. The Livingston County Clerk’s Office reports the proposed tax rates are 1.41 cents for general revenue and 4.98 cents for senior services. The August 3 agenda also […]
The Trenton City Council on Monday night voted unanimously to reject the designation of the downtown historic district as currently written, which would have created a new section in the city code. On a split vote, the city council defeated a proposed increase in the electric system base rate. Narrow approval was given on another […]
U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), along with the entire Senate Republican caucus, sent a letter to President Biden urging him to abandon his effort to impose a capital gains tax increase on family-owned businesses, farms, and ranches. Repealing this part of the tax code would have a devastating effect on multi-generation operations, which could lead […]
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt today announced that his office has received a term sheet from Johnson and Johnson and multiple distributors (McKesson, Amerisource Bergen, and Cardinal Health), setting the stage for the largest victim-centric settlements the State of Missouri has ever seen and tentatively securing roughly just over half a billion dollars of funding […]
Representatives of four potential vendors attended a pre-proposal conference July 20th for a project to provide Grundy County a new digital simulcast radio network. The proposed system would replace the current fire and ambulance radio system. Grundy County Emergency Management Director Glen Briggs reports the potential vendors were taken to sites related to the radio […]
The Trenton Utility Committee meets next Tuesday, July 20, 2021, to discuss whether to plan for an increase in the base rate for electric customers. A discussion also is listed for the proposed security gate at the Trenton water plant reservoir. The 6 pm meeting also includes reports and an update from the utility director.
A Texas man pleaded guilty in federal court to defrauding two Kansas City-area brothers who have also been convicted in the investment fraud scheme. Duc Nguyen, also known as “Doug,” 57, of Houston, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark to one count of wire fraud. By pleading guilty, Nguyen admitted that he engaged […]
(Missouri Independent) – When the attorney general’s office asked a judge in 2019 to lift a temporary restraining order blocking a Missouri law pre-empting county regulations on concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, that were stricter than the state’s, the argument was straightforward. No one was trying to build a large animal feeding operation in Cedar […]
Missouri’s Medicaid expansion lawsuit case is now in the hands of the seven-member state Supreme Court. The court heard about 35 minutes of oral arguments Tuesday morning in Jefferson City. This case will likely come down to the definition of “appropriation.” Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem ruled in June that Missouri’s August Medicaid expansion […]
The Missouri Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday morning, July 13, 2021, in Jefferson City in one of the biggest cases the court has faced in recent memory: Missouri’s Medicaid expansion lawsuit case. Oral arguments will begin Tuesday at 11 a.m. Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem ruled in late June that […]
Much of the discussion during Monday night’s Trenton City Council meeting involved discussion on trash service complaints. City administrator Ron Urton provided a list of recent complaint calls received by city hall detailing addresses that experienced issues. Two members of the public, Larry Huffstutter and Gaylon McCorkle voiced their concerns. Responses were provided by Rapid […]
Supporters of the U.S. Postal Service are pressing for passage of a bill to shore up the troubled agency. Twin versions of the bipartisan Postal Service Reform Act of 2021 are winding their way through committees in the U.S. House and Senate. John McHugh, a former congressman from New York who served as Secretary of the Army until […]
Grundy County is requesting formal qualifications-based competitive sealed proposals from qualified, licensed, and experienced providers for a turnkey project to provide the county a new Conventional Project-25 700/800 Megahertz digital simulcast radio network. Emergency Management Director Glen Briggs reports the radio system is a proposed replacement system for the current fire and ambulance system. The […]
