Our Opinion: Small change could benefit state employees
A small change in the way the state pays its employees could help them with their budgeting, with no real downside to the state.
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A small change in the way the state pays its employees could help them with their budgeting, with no real downside to the state.
As a legislative session with ample attention paid to Missouri's state employees winds down, a bicameral effort to expand pay options for them is progressing through the committee process with new provisions attached.
JEFFERSON CITY -- Bills from local lawmakers that would allow state employees to be paid biweekly are making their way through both chambers of the Statehouse.
Several dozen people gathered Sunday at Hawthorn Memorial Gardens to dedicate a memorial in honor of Wilburn Rowden, a 99-year-old World War II veteran.
Nearly 350 people spent their Saturday morning helping to improve several locations in Jefferson City as part of a volunteer effort that had to be put on hold the past couple of years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.