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Schweich announces Municipal Courts Initiative
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. –State Auditor Tom Schweich announced today that his office will start auditing 10 municipal courts around the state annually. The announcement lists 10 municipal courts to be...
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Chappelle-Nadal treasurer resigns over Stream ad
Saint Louis, Mo. — The treasurer in charge of Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal’s election committee will officially resign tomorrow in protest of Chappelle-Nadal’s support of Republican St. Louis County...
View ArticleNo indictment in Brown shooting
CLAYTON, Mo. — A St. Louis county grand jury formally announced today that it would not indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson on charges connecting to his fatal shooting of unarmed 18-year-old...
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Elected officials thematically empathize with Brown’s family, want peace
FEATURED PHOTO CREDIT: CHARLIE RIEDEL/AP FERGUSON, Mo. – Yesterday’s Grand Jury ruling announcement sparked national attention for Missouri that surpassed that of the any event in the past...
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Lawmakers file bills aimed at Ferguson
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Several black lawmakers from both sides of the state wasted no time in filing legislation directly responding to the unfolding events in Ferguson. Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, the...
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Chappelle-Nadal files scathing remonstrance against Nixon
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — It was only a few hours into the 98th General Assembly when Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, D-University City, took the floor to blast Missouri’s chief executive as an aloof racist....
View ArticleRepublicans look to open door for new Voter ID laws
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House gave initial approval to a constitutional amendment that, if approved by voters on the ballot, would open the door for lawmakers to establish strict...
View ArticleCTE diplomas could become a reality
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Senate Education Committee heard three bills today – two from Sen. Gary Romine, R-Farmington, and one from Sen. Ed Emery, R-Lamar. SB172, sponsored by Romine, which would...
View ArticleChappelle-Nadal, ACLU push new law enforcement regulations
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — In the wake of a Department of Justice report which ripped the City of Ferguson for its biased police practices, Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, D-St. Louis, and the American Civil...
View ArticleNew deadly force law gets first approval in Senate
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Hours after riots broke loose in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray after injuries he apparently sustained in police custody, Missouri lawmakers debated a measure to bring...
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Nixon vetoes school transfer bill
Saint Louis, Mo. — Gov. Jay Nixon stood before educators and some local lawmakers after he vetoed a bill for the second year in a row that the Missouri legislature passed with sweeping reforms aimed at...
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Chappelle-Nadal pushing for more action at contaminated Bridgeton, West Lake...
UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. — State senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal is beating the drum against the failures to contain potentially deadly toxic waste at the West Lake landfill. The landfill falls in her...
View ArticleChappelle-Nadal calls for federal hearings on landfill contamination and EPA
UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. — State senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal first demanded that St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger declare a state of emergency in parts of St. Louis County located over landfills...
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Part One: 5 of the Most Important People of 2016
House Speaker Todd Richardson Richardson The new speaker inherited a whole host of problems he had to sort through starting with the way he came to the job a year early and continued with a...
View ArticleStudents lobby for improved sex ed
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Dozens of high school and college students, joined by sex education advocates, visited the Capitol Wednesday to lobby for SB 672, sponsored by Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, D-St....
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Senate democrats filibuster SJR39 through second night
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The longest consecutive filibuster in state history endured through a second night as senate democrats debated in shifts as the republican majority was forced to answer hourly...
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This Week in the Governor’s Office: Israeli ambassador, judge appointment,...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Governor Eric Greitens was relatively occupied during the week of August 14-18. The Missouri Governor began the week with a somber order for flags to be at half-staff from August...
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Greitens hosts third public address through Facebook
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Governor Eric Greitens answered 8 questions on Facebook live Wednesday afternoon, handpicked from nearly 3,200 on his two posts. He spoke about Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal,...
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Can the legislature call a special election? Constitution, cases say yes
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Leading Missouri political minds are buzzing about the legislature being able to set a special election by resolution without the signature of the governor, citing the...
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Justin Brown: Maria Chappelle-Nadal needs to go and so do her policies
By Justin Brown It’s been a firestorm since St. Louis Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal said she wished Donald Trump would be assassinated. Everyone and their uncle has called for her resignation. This...
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