JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — An initiative petition changing the Missouri constitution to legalize marijuana has been approved to circulate by the Secretary of State’s Office. The…
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The Missouri Times is following the citizen initiative process from the very beginning — from being submitted to rejected, withdrawn, or approved to signature collection and potentially to the ballot.
The ballot language of four initiative petitions related to renewable energy is up for debate in court. James Owen, on behalf of Missourians for Affordable…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — All the initiative petitions submitted by the executive director of the Missouri National Education Association (NEA) have been approved for the signature…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri could increase education funding by as much as $2.45 billion under a spate of initiative petitions looking to alter the constitution’s…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A St. Louis attorney suing the state over the ballot language of a bevy of initiative petitions has received approval to…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — In a spate of recently filed initiative petitions, one Missourian is looking to alter the constitution’s wording on public school funding.…
Missourians will get the final say on Medicaid expansion if a newly-formed coalition is successful in getting the issue on the 2020 ballot. The campaign,…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft is pushing back against criticisms over how he handled a petition seeking to give voters the…
Advocates who unsuccessfully sought to give voters the final say in a sweeping anti-abortion law are challenging the legality of Missouri’s statutes on the referendum…
The ballot language for a referendum petition “dishonestly misstates the content” of a sweeping anti-abortion bill, according to GOP megadonor David Humphreys. The Joplin businessman…