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Missouri Supreme Court won’t hear Jay Ashcroft's appeal of abortion ballot summaries

1 year 1 month ago
The Missouri Supreme Court has denied Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s attempt to appeal rulings against his ballot summary for initiative petitions seeking to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution.  The court also rejected an appeal seeking to reject cost estimates crafted by Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick.  The decisions came down Monday evening, less than a week after Ashcroft asked the state’s highest court to take up the case.  Ashcroft is attempting to keep the wording…
Anna Spoerre

St. Louis lost about $500K in recreational marijuana sales tax because of missing paperwork

1 year 1 month ago
The city of St. Louis is potentially out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue since October. The city failed to file paperwork with the state of Missouri in time to collect sales tax on recreational marijuana. In April 2023, a proposition was passed to add an additional 3% sales tax in St. Louis city. It was meant to go into effect on Oct. 1, 2023. Yet, the St. Louis mayor's office says that the proper notification to marijuana purveyors and the required documentation to the State…
Annie Krall

Missouri pension board rejects push by Vivek Malek for China divestment

1 year 1 month ago
The board overseeing Missouri’s state employee pension plan voted down a proposal by state Treasurer Vivek Malek to sell off any investments in Chinese stocks and other securities.  On a voice vote last week, the 11-member board of the Missouri State Employees Retirement System rejected Malek’s call to punish the Asian economic powerhouse for COVID-19, spy balloons and the fentanyl crisis by pulling its pension investments in the Asian economic powerhouse. China has become a bad investment…
Rudi Keller

Advocates hail regulatory ‘earthquake’ as Illinois slashes requested gas rate increases

1 year 1 month ago
Regulators at the Illinois Commerce Commission on Thursday unanimously approved rate hikes for four major natural gas utilities, but the little-known regulatory body’s decision was perhaps more notable for what it rejected. The five-member board flexed its regulatory muscle, slashing the utilities’ requested rate increases by as much as 50%. “This was an earthquake in Illinois utility regulation,” Abe Scarr, director of consumer advocacy group Illinois PIRG told Capitol News Illinois after…
Andrew Adams