Matt Blunt News

The likely pairing of Democrat Robin Carnahan and Republican Roy Blunt in a race for a seat in the U.S. Senate is fully under way, with general agreement that it will be among the most-watched races in the nation next year.

Missourians will be able to get more information about those seeking to become judges because of a new rule approved Monday by the Missouri Supreme Court.The rule change is the most recent step in a gradual increase in the information available about those seeking spots on the bench.

Missourians shouldn't be surprised if a Democratic governor and a Republican lieutenant governor can't play nice.

Gov. Jay Nixon ran for office last year on a platform of insuring every child. But as governor, he has resisted a proposal that could immediately cover thousands of Missouri's 108,000 uninsured children.

Posted on Monday, November 23, 2009 at 6:22 a.m. Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder has either resigned or been removed by Democratic Gov.

There is a growing separation between Missouri's top two executive officials. Republican Lt.

Republicans have been trying to poke holes in Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon's deal with community colleges and universities to freeze tuition for a second year in a row.

An audit highlighting management failures at the St. Louis Police Department, released Tuesday, also spurred calls for returning control of the state-run agency to the city.

After 18 months of turmoil and criticism, a state audit of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department found the police force was poorly run and needs to tighten its financial controls.

In a development suggesting medical malpractice reform may help alleviate doctor shortages, a package of reforms in Missouri signed in 2005 by then-governor Matt Blunt to curb junk medical lawsuits has created an environment more appealing to physicians.

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is appealing a judge's ruling that blocked a proposed hog farm from locating near the historic village of Arrow Rock in central Missouri.

Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 6:02 a.m. The mother of condemned Missouri inmate Reginald Clemons will be among the speakers at a panel discussion in St.

Ed Martin, the former chief of staff to Gov. Matt Blunt who resigned in the wake of an e-mail retention controversy, has injected himself into the turmoil in Gov.

Monday, October 19, 2009 at 5:58 p.m. Cole County Judge Richard Callahan this morning heard evidence and arguments in a civil suit brought by a man barred from doing business with the state for employing illegal workers.

As a Liberty Leader at the Illinois Policy Institute, I made the trip to Springfield, IL on Wednesday, October 14 with other Liberty Leaders and Institute personnel to hear former Missouri Governor Matt Blunt address government transparency.

Gov. Jay Nixon fired a longtime aide and reinstated Missouri's environmental chief Friday while announcing that an investigation revealed repeated state failures to protect the public from contaminated waterways.

Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 6:41 a.m. JEFFERSON CITY -- The governor is at the focus of a change in a Capital City tradition.

A Missouri senator leading a review of the delayed release of E. coli results says there has been an "organized cover-up" and an outside investigation might be necessary.

The Associated Press wrote in a Sept. 20 story that Gov. Jay Nixon may be appointing false Republicans to partisan seats on state boards and commissions, but that doesn't seem to be the case among Missouri State's Board of Governors.

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