Rudi Keller
Deputy Editor | The Missouri IndependentRudi Keller covers the state budget, energy and the legislature. He’s spent 22 of his 30 years in journalism covering Missouri government and politics, most recently as the news editor of the Columbia Daily Tribune. Keller has won awards for spot news and investigative reporting.
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The Missouri Freedom Caucus, a faction of the state GOP, has vowed to debate the budget in detail and attempt to cut hundreds of millions in spending. That could push final votes on spending past the constitutional deadline of May 10.
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The last-minute inclusion, aimed at Kansas City, would force any city to repay all state funds, with interest, if it became a ‘sanctuary city’ for non-authorized immigrants.
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The Missouri Western District Court of Appeals upholds finding that the state's Department of Corrections was “knowing and purposeful” in refusing to release records of inmate who committed suicide to his mother.
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The Senate begins work Tuesday on Missouri’s roughly $50 billion state budget, with questions still swirling around renewing a tax that funds Medicaid and a GOP infighting that could derail the process.
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The levies that help fund Missouri's Medicaid program are being held up by members of the Senate Freedom Caucus who want two other bills finished before they will promise not to filibuster its passage.
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More than $10 million — much of it from outside the state — has been raised to push proposals for abortion rights, sports wagering and to raise the minimum wage in Missouri.
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Missouri State Rep. Justin Hicks, a U.S. House candidate for Missouri's 3rd congressional district, filed the lawsuit after another Republican posted his criminal and military records online.
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Denton Loudermill, of Olathe, Kansas, is suing Missouri State Sens. Rick Brattin, Denny Hoskins and Nick Schroer over social media messages accusing him of being a shooter and an "illegal alien."
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Luetkemeyer said the “antics” of “far right wingers” are why Republicans haven’t achieved more in Congress.
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The bill sponsored by Missouri Rep. Travis Smith, R-Dora, would cut the tax rate, currently 4%, to 3% on Jan. 1 and make another one percentage point cut each year until the tax is eliminated in 2028.
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Missouri House Budget Committee Chairman Cody Smith cut the time set aside for amending his spending plan but said the final product is ‘largely the same.’
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The annual markets outlook from the Food & Agricultural Policy Research Institute anticipates declining farm income, higher costs for producers.