Rudi Keller
Deputy Editor | The Missouri IndependentRudi Keller covers the state budget, energy and the legislature. He’s spent 22 of his 30 years in journalism covering Missouri government and politics, most recently as the news editor of the Columbia Daily Tribune. Keller has won awards for spot news and investigative reporting.
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More than $10 million — much of it from outside the state — has been raised to push proposals for abortion rights, sports wagering and to raise the minimum wage in Missouri. -
Missouri State Rep. Justin Hicks, a U.S. House candidate for Missouri's 3rd congressional district, filed the lawsuit after another Republican posted his criminal and military records online. -
Denton Loudermill, of Olathe, Kansas, is suing Missouri State Sens. Rick Brattin, Denny Hoskins and Nick Schroer over social media messages accusing him of being a shooter and an "illegal alien." -
Luetkemeyer said the “antics” of “far right wingers” are why Republicans haven’t achieved more in Congress. -
The bill sponsored by Missouri Rep. Travis Smith, R-Dora, would cut the tax rate, currently 4%, to 3% on Jan. 1 and make another one percentage point cut each year until the tax is eliminated in 2028. -
Missouri House Budget Committee Chairman Cody Smith cut the time set aside for amending his spending plan but said the final product is ‘largely the same.’ -
The annual markets outlook from the Food & Agricultural Policy Research Institute anticipates declining farm income, higher costs for producers. -
The Republican gubernatorial hopeful enlisted help of economists who crafted Kansas tax plan that crashed revenues to prepare proposal for Missouri tax revisions. -
Rowden, who as of January was sitting on the largest campaign fund in the field, said when he announced his run in November, it was the best choice for his family but he “no longer believe(s) that to be true.” -
Edgar Springs, a town of 200 in southern Phelps County, must now pay Rebecca Varney $750, plus almost $80,000 in attorney fees, to satisfy a November court decision that found it violated Varney’s First Amendment rights and the Missouri Sunshine Law. -
The case, brought by Missouri State Rep. Justin Hicks, R-Lake St. Louis, is sealed from public view. Hicks filed to run for Missouri's third congressional district this week. -
The St. Louis University/YouGov poll found many undecided voters as ballot campaign gathers signatures. The poll also found strong support for repealing the sales tax on food and sports wagering.
