Jay Nixon News

Metropolitan Community College and WGU Missouri announced today the signing of an articulation agreement that allows MCC graduates and staff to apply for free to WGU Missouri and receive discounted tuition at the nonprofit online university.

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A Missouri commission has approved tax credits to build low-income housing after delaying their issuance last year.

Wildwood's City Council could vote, as early as their March 24 meeting, on a legislative lobbying services agreement with R.J. Schurr and Associates, a consulting firm based in Jefferson City.

A state senator from eastern Missouri is forgoing a re-election bid, potentially setting off a scramble among Republicans vying to replace him in the reliably GOP district.

Governor Jay Nixon and Rep. Tommie Pierson will host a community meeting at the Greater St. Mark Family Church in St. Louis tonight at 6:30 p.m. to discuss reforming and expanding Medicaid in Missouri.

The legislation would shift more children and adults into managed care Medicaid policies run by insurance companies while authorizing a new model of coordinated care for many seniors and disabled patients.

A Missouri House panel forged ahead with a budget plan Wednesday that would make education funding partly dependent on the strength of the economy and bar colleges from offering cheaper resident tuition rates to students living in the U.S. illegally.

Missouri would become the third state to make women wait three days to have an abortion after seeing a doctor under legislation passed by the state House on Tuesday.

Missouri would become the third state to make women wait three days to have an abortion after seeing a doctor under legislation passed by the state House on Tuesday.

A lucky school in the lake area will soon be seeing some technological improvements in order to help their students prepare for the future.

The only way to stop telecommunications bill SB 650 is to have Gov. Jay Nixon veto the bill and that is exactly what the Missouri Municipal League is asking for.

Southeast Missourian Gov. Jay Nixon has made nominations to seven state boards and commissions, which include two local nominees.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri's low-income housing initiative is inefficient and among the costliest in the nation, State Auditor Tom Schweich said Monday while recommending changes to the program.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is likely to see abortion bills headed for his desk this year An unprecedented wave of new restrictions on abortion rights has swept the country in recent years after Republicans won control of state legislatures across the country.

A proposal in Missouri to nullify certain federal gun control laws could actually mean jail for federal agents who try to enforce them.

A bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers are trying to restrict use of state financial aid for students of Western Governors University-Missouri, The Columbia Daily Tribune reports.

"We will pass a bill that in all likelihood will be vetoed, and we'll be right back where we started."

Brownback's personal income tax cuts will leave nearly $3.9 billion out of the state government's budget over the next five years.

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Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon last week released the remaining $132.5 million of $400 million in funding approved last year by the Republican-led legislature.