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Newcomer Gabriel Jones launches bid for Burns’ 93rd District seat

Newcomer Gabriel Jones launches bid for Burns’ 93rd District seat

February 13, 2020

Affton resident Gabriel Jones, 31, a Republican communications professional and basketball official, has announced a bid for state representative in the 93rd District, the seat currently held by the...

Murphy running again; given freshman honor

Murphy running again; given freshman honor

February 12, 2020

Rep. Jim Murphy, R-Oakville, announced that he is running for re-election in the 94th District. ‘It has been a great honor representing the 94th and there is much work left to be done,’ Murphy said...

From left to right; Rep. David Gregory and Erica Hoffman.

Hoffman is challenging Gregory for Legislature in 2020 rematch

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter February 11, 2020

Missouri state Rep. David Gregory, R-Sunset Hills, will again have competition for his legislative seat in 2020, with Democrat Erica Hoffman mounting another challenge in the 96th District. Hoffman formally...

Legislators from both parties unveil the ‘Cloria Brown Highway’ Lindbergh sign

Legislators from both parties unveil the ‘Cloria Brown Highway’ Lindbergh sign

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter November 3, 2019

The legacy of the late state Rep. Cloria Brown will live on after a stretch of Lindbergh Boulevard from Interstate 55 to Lin Ferry Drive was dubbed the “Cloria Brown Memorial Highway.” A new sign...

Deb Lavender challenges Koenig in 2020 race for Senate seat representing Sunset Hills

Deb Lavender challenges Koenig in 2020 race for Senate seat representing Sunset Hills

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter November 1, 2019

A current state legislator and physical therapist from Kirkwood is looking to turn a historically red state Senate district blue in 2020. State Rep. Deb Lavender, a Democrat, announced in May that...

Pictured above, then-Rep. Doug Beck, D-Affton, left, and Rep. Sarah Unsicker, D-Shrewsbury, right, discuss the highs and the lows of the 2019 legislative session during a town hall
meeting at the Affton Elks Lodge.

Beck, Unsicker hold joint town hall to review 2019’s legislative session

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter September 10, 2019

State representatives Doug Beck, D-Affton, and Sarah Unsicker, D-Shrewsbury, held a joint town hall this summer to discuss the highs and lows of this year’s legislative session. Beck represents Affton...

Rep. Doug Beck, D-Affton, presents a legislative commendation to retired Lindbergh Superintendent Jim Simpson in June 2018.

Beck, Unsicker host town hall on 2019 session

May 30, 2019

Reps. Doug Beck, D-Affton, and Sarah Unsicker, D-Shrewsbury, will hold a joint town hall meeting and end-of-session 2019 Missouri legislative wrapup from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 5 at the Affton...

Gov. Mike Parson, above, hosted the largest crowd in his office so far to see him sign a bill renaming Lindbergh for the late Rep. Cloria Brown.

Governor signs bill naming Lindbergh ‘Rep. Cloria Brown Memorial Highway’

April 10, 2019

Gov. Mike Parson signed a bill renaming a South County highway after the late Rep. Cloria Brown last month in a ceremony that brought together Brown’s family with dozens of her colleagues in the Missouri...

The Missouri State Capitol building in Jefferson City.

Missouri House passes the ‘strongest pro-life bill’ in United States

March 6, 2019

By Blythe Nebeker and Abigail Shaw  Columbia Missourian The “strongest pro-life bill” in the country, as many Republicans are calling it, received final approval from the Missouri House last week...

Rep. David Gregory addresses the Tesson Ferry Republican Club in July 2018.

Legislators exempt themselves from Sunshine Law

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor January 29, 2019

The first official vote of the 100th General Assembly was for legislators to nullify part of a new Missouri Constitutional amendment passed by voters in November, Clean Missouri. Legislators govern...

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