Tagged: robin carnahan

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Missouri receives $6 million for transportation projects
• Health care measure's language battled over in court
• Quicksand popping up along rivers

A Missouri judge has scheduled two hearings this month on a challenge to the ballot language of a health care measure that goes before voters in November.

The lawsuit by Republican Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder and several top GOP lawmakers contends the ballot summary is unfair and misleading. Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, a Democrat, wrote the summary.

Online court records show Cole County Circuit Judge Dan Green will hear arguments Friday and again on August 28th.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• An update on which cities will have their fireworks displays tonight, and which won't because of dry conditions.
• Mo Republicans cry foul over Secretary of State's ballot summaries
• A story from a 4th of July event put on by Mormon Congregations in Columbia

Several Republicans are criticizing the ballot summaries that Missouri Democratic Secretary of State Robin Carnahan has prepared for measures dealing with health insurance and appellate judges.

The Republican-led Legislature referred both measures to the November ballot. Carnahan wrote the ballot summaries because lawmakers did not include their own.

Lawmakers who sponsored the measures say those summaries are misleading, and two GOP leaders pledged to file a lawsuit.