
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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Residents of two districts — including one that emcompasses Hazelwood — are appealing a trial court ruling that the Missouri Constitution allows counties and cities to be split between districts if other rules are met.
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Missouri Senate Majority Leader Cindy O’Laughlin said she ‘absolutely’ would vote to remove Sen. Bill Eigel from the chamber.
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The Missouri secretary of state criticized his fellow Republican over an audit accusing Ashcroft of withholding information, refusing to cooperate and likely breaking state law.
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The Missouri Department of Transportation approved an Adopt-a-Highway application from the family of Kevin Johnson, who was executed in November 2022 for the killing of a Kirkwood Police Officer. The sign was up for four months before the entire program got suspended.
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A coalition that includes the St. Louis Cardinals, City SC, and Blues — and funded by two sports betting platforms — is launching an initiative campaign to put sports gambling on this year’s ballot. Team owners say that efforts to persuade Missouri lawmakers have been futile.
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Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft threatened to unilaterally kick President Joe Biden off of the Missouri ballot if Donald Trump is disqualified in other states for violating the U.S. Constitution insurrection clause. But an appeals court ruling found Missouri law did not give the secretary of state that power.
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Ashcroft, a candidate for Missouri Governor, is the latest prominent figure targeted by false crime reports intended to trigger heavy police response.
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Jonathan Ratliff, executive director of the House Republican Campaign Committee, will become ‘senior consultant’ after 14 years leading election efforts.
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The Missouri State Employees Retirement Fund reversed its previous decision to reject a divestment proposal from Treasurer Vivek Malek. One of the four legislators on the board accused Malek of playing politics with state investments to boost his 2024 election chances.
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The NAACP and the League of Women Voters are challenging Missouri's 2022 voter ID law, arguing it imposes unconstitutional burdens on the right to vote without actually achieving the stated goal of reducing fraud.
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Missouri State Treasurer Vivek Malek contends economic headwinds, political actions of Chinese government make the country a bad investment.
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The Missouri Secretary of State's language for reproductive rights ballot issues has been savaged by two courts, most recently when the Western District Court of Appeals unanimously ruled his summaries are “replete with politically partisan language."