Governing

The presumptive next speaker of the Missouri House, Majority Leader Jon Patterson of Lee's Summit, is determined to keep the Kansas City Chiefs on his side of the state line.

Members of the Missouri House this week plan to boost the pay of child abuse investigators. But Gov. Mike Parson has expressed wariness about increasing state employee salaries in a piecemeal fashion. Instead, he prefers across-the-board pay boosts.

The report will offer a closer look at how the ordinance affects Columbia residents and how it came to be.

Almost 51% of Missouri is women, but they don’t have that representation on the state’s appointed boards and commissions.

A petition completed its first step Wednesday – a movement to allow students to vote on their university governing boards. This means students are one…