Reality Check is a Star series holding those with power to account and shining a light on their decisions. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at RealityCheck@kcstar.com. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson last week vetoed from the state budget millions of dollars that would have gone to the Kansas City area. Parson, […]
More than 170 items were struck from the Missouri state budget Friday as Gov. Mike Parson cut $1 billion from the spending plan passed this year by lawmakers. In a statement explaining his cuts, Parson said he vetoed earmarked items that he believes were loaded into the budget for special projects and organizations without considering […]
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday signed a roughly $50.5 billion budget for the next fiscal year but slashed more than 170 items approved by state lawmakers. The budget Parson signed is about $1 billion less than the $51.7 billion spending plan lawmakers passed last month. Items that Parson vetoed included $5 million for a […]
Gov. Mike Parson discusses his plans for the coming fiscal year’s budget Thursday following groundbreaking for a new multiagency state laboratory in Jefferson City. (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent) Hundreds of earmarked items in the $51.7 billion budget passed by lawmakers this year will be vetoed, Gov. Mike Parson said Thursday, just days before the new fiscal […]
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has denied clemency to a 69-year-old veteran facing execution on Tuesday. David Hosier was sentenced to death in 2013 for the murder of Angela Gilpin, 45. She and her husband, Rodney Gilpin, 61, were found dead Sept. 28, 2009, in the hallway of her Jefferson City apartment building. Angela Gilpin and […]
Missouri taxpayers will not cover the costs of damages that may result from defamation lawsuits filed against three state senators who incorrectly identified a Kansas man as the shooter at the Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade, Gov. Mike Parson said Monday. In a letter to the commissioner of the Office of Administration, the state agency that […]
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson prior to the State of the State address on Jan. 24, 2024 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). Missouri taxpayers will not cover the costs of damages that may result from defamation lawsuits filed against three state senators who incorrectly identified a Kansas man as the shooter at the Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade, Gov. […]
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday pushed back against Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s defense of three senators sued for sharing false posts about the Kansas City Chiefs parade shooting. Parson, a Republican who appointed Bailey, told a gaggle of reporters that it was “problematic” when asked about the state defending the Republican state senators. “We’ll […]
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says he will sign into law legislation blocking Medicaid dollars from going to Planned Parenthood, a longtime priority for Republicans even as abortion remains banned in the state. The legislation bans any public funds, including Medicaid reimbursements, from going to the organization, abortion facilities, or their affiliates. But it has sparked […]
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Monday signed into law legislation designed to kill a divisive landfill proposed in south Kansas City after the issue became a flashpoint over the past two legislative sessions. The law, which goes into effect on Aug. 28, prohibits the Missouri Department of Natural Resources from issuing permits to a landfill […]
Former Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid was expecting to be released from prison early, but Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s commutation of his sentence made it sooner than he anticipated, his attorney in his divorce proceedings said in a statement. Reid, who was convicted of driving while intoxicated and causing a crash that severely injured a […]
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday expressed his “deepest sympathy” to the family of the 5-year-old girl severely injured in a crash caused by Britt Reid, but stopped short of apologizing for commuting the prison sentence of the former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach. A spokesperson for the Republican governor responded in a written statement […]