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On Mon. May 24, Governor Mike Parson held a press conference to announce his appointment of the Honorable Robin Ransom as the next Supreme Court Judge for the State of Missouri. She is the first Black woman to hold the position on the state s highest court.
The role’s vacancy was created after Judge Laura Denvir Stith announced her retirement from the position in early March.
Gov. Parson selected from a panel of 25 candidates, submitted by the Appellate Judicial Commission.
“I have no doubt that Judge Ransom will add valuable experience, perspective, and balance to the court,” said Governor Parson. “I am confident that she will continue to be a fair enforcer of the law, faithfully interpret the law as written, and reasonably consider decisions made at the trial and appellate level.”
March 9, 2021
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill, who lost reelection as a Democrat in 2018, says she will not run for Blunt s seat in GOP stronghold.
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Missouri s Roy Blunt is now the fifth Republican U.S. senator to announce he s not seeking reelection next year.
After serving 14 years in the House, Blunt was first elected to the Senate in 2010. He s currently the number four GOP leader in the chamber.
While Blunt s announcement gives Democrats hope that they could preserve their razor-thin Senate majority, two top Democrats in Missouri have already said they don t plan to run for Blunt s open seat.
That s former Sen. Claire McCaskill and Jason Kander who Blunt narrowly defeated in 2016.
JEFFERSON CITY â A state tax credit designed to finance affordable housing construction, which was at the center of one of the fiercest political battles of the short-lived tenure of Gov. Eric Greitens, is back.
The Missouri Housing Development Commission could meet as soon as this week to allocate Missouri Low Income Housing Tax Credits for projects around the state, including several in the St. Louis area.
It would be the first time that Missouri has issued state low-income tax credits since Greitensâ administration in December 2017 engineered a vote at the commission halting the state credits, angering a politically powerful industry that because of the move lost out on close to $300 million in credits that would have been doled out over 10 years.