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The price to park in downtown Jefferson City is going up. Councilman approve hiking metered parking rate. Currently meters range from 25 cents an hour to a dollar. The city says rates could go up 10 – 25 cents. It’s the first rate hike since the early 2000’s.

Cutting-edge is how UM System President Dr. Mun Choi describes the bipartisan NIL bill signed into law by Missouri’s governor at Faurot Field in August. Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz, Mizzou men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates and a bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers joined Governor Mike Parson and UM System …

House Minority Leader Crystal Quade (D-Springfield) is seeking Missouri’s Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 2024. Republicans currently have a GOP supermajority in the House of 111-51. Leader Quade joined us live on 939 the Eagle’s “Wake Up Mid-Missouri.” She predicts House Democrats will pick up five additional seats in the next …

The Jefferson City Council wants to help with recruiting for the Police Department. They passed a contract this week with a marketing firm to put together a plan to attract new officers. The Council also approved developing an internship program with Lincoln U law enforcement students with the JCPD.

Is this the year your lawmakers will raise the bar on getting changes to Missouri’s Constitution approved? The Initiative Petition measure to raise the percentage of votes needed to add amendments has failed in past sessions … Cole County State Rep. Rudy Veit isn’t sure an election year like 2024 …

The Missouri House says 343 bills were pre-filed on Friday, which was the first day to pre-file bills for the 2024 legislative session. “Missouri Times” publisher Scott Faughn joined us live this morning on 939 the Eagle’s “Wake Up Mid-Missouri”, telling listeners that a lot of those bills are filed …

Crowds line up to participate in candlelight tours at the Missouri Governor’s Mansion in Jefferson City on December 2, 2022 (file photo courtesy of Governor Parson’s Flickr page) Big crowds are expected again this evening for the final night of candlelight tours at the Missouri Governor’s Mansion in downtown Jefferson …

Two people are charged with drug sales and possession after a Friday traffic stop in Callaway County. Deputies pulled over a car on Route Z near Fulton. A K-9 sniffed out a large amount of Fentanyl. Matthew Newcom and Tedra Mason are charged with drug trafficking and possession.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is against a Biden Administration rule that seeks to require LGBT juveniles to be placed in foster care homes with individuals who are trained in gender identity issues … Bailey has teamed up with 18 other attorneys general who are telling the feds that the …

Firefighters aren’t ruling out arson as the cause of an apartment building in the 1100 – block of on East McCarty Street around 1-a.m.today. Jefferson City crews say the fire damaged one apartment and there is smoke damage in the rest of building. No one was hurt, but five people …