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Springfield News-Leader
February 27, 2018
Jeff Notes is the News-Leader's rolling coverage of developments in the Missouri General Assembly and within state government. This article ... (Jay Nixon was the attorney general at the time; Matt Blunt was governor.) ... The special panel picked by legislative leaders to investigate allegations against Gov.
Kansas City Star
February 26, 2018
The governor was indicted last week by a St. Louis grand jury and charged with felony invasion of privacy. He's admitted to having an ... Barnes previously served as general counsel of the Missouri Senate and policy counsel and speechwriter for former Republican Gov. Matt Blunt. During his tenure in theÃâà...
The Democrat Leader
February 20, 2018
First appointed in February 2008 by then Governor Matt Blunt, Harper filled the county clerk's post when the former County Clerk resigned after accusations ... A Certified Public Accountant and former auditor with the Missouri State Auditor's Office, Harper credits her knowledge of government and finance forÃâà...
Boonville Daily News
February 19, 2018
First appointed in February 2008 by then Governor Matt Blunt, Harper filled the county clerk's post when the former County Clerk resigned after accusations ... A Certified Public Accountant and former auditor with the Missouri State Auditor's Office, Harper credits her knowledge of government and finance forÃâà...
WILX-TV
February 4, 2018
Former Missouri governor, Matt Blunt, is the group's president. Blunt said, "You'd be hard pressed to find a state that's more reliant on the automotive industry, or on NAFTA, than Michigan." Car companies that build in the U.S. credit NAFTA with leading to industry success, but they're warning achievementsÃâà...
Automotive News (blog)
February 3, 2018
WASHINGTON — As president of the American Automotive Policy Council, Matt Blunt is at the center of negotiations to modernize the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement. The former governor of Missouri closely monitored talks among U.S., Canadian and Mexican trade officials in January inÃâà...
Governing
December 22, 2017
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley has launched an investigation into whether Gov. Eric Greitens and ... "All Missourians," he wrote, "deserve a state government that is open, transparent and accountable." ... Matt Blunt was allowing his staff to destroy emails in violation of the state's open records laws.
Kansas City Star
December 20, 2017
Missouri attorney general will investigate Gov. ... News of the investigation comes nearly two weeks after The Star first revealed that the governor and his senior staff use Confide, an app that destroys a text ... Matt Blunt was allowing his staff to destroy emails in violation of the state's open records laws.
STLtoday.com
December 14, 2017
The investigators filed a lawsuit against Blunt, in part because it was clear that the governor's chief of staff, Ed Martin, was destroying emails. But the investigators needed their own attorneys, so in came Leonatti, a Republican who nearly became a federal judge, and former Lt. Gov. Joe Maxwell, a DemocratÃâà...
STLtoday.com
December 8, 2017
Sifton said in a letter to Hawley that recent history showed an attorney general could launch an investigation of potential open records law violations by the governor: In 2007, then-Attorney General Jay Nixon appointed an independent team to investigate then-Gov. Matt Blunt for potential open recordsÃâà...
The Pathway
September 19, 2017
Gov. Eric Greitens is scheduled to address the annual meeting at 1 p.m., Oct. 24. It will mark the first time the governor of Missouri has spoken at the annual meeting since former Gov. Matt Blunt addressed messengers attending the 171st meeting on Oct. 26, 2005, in Springfield. Voters elected GreitensÃâà...
Governing
August 21, 2017
When governors criticize the trade agreement, it's typically because they feel that a regional industry is getting a raw deal. Idaho Gov. Butch Otter, for instance, told the Idaho Statesman earlier this year ... Matt Blunt testified before a United States Office of the U.S. Trade Representative committee last month.
Southeast Missourian
August 7, 2017
The audit claims Nixon, a Democrat who was replaced by Republican Gov. Eric Greitens in January, effectively exceeded lawmaker-approved spending on his office, mansion and security by at least $2.2 million in fiscal years 2015 and 2016. He did so by delaying paying bills and shifting expenses to otherÃâà...
