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Joe Mueller

Joe Mueller covers Missouri for The Center Square. After seven years of reporting for daily newspapers in Illinois and Missouri, he spent the next 30 years in public relations serving non-profit…

Transportation
Missouri transportation commission approves $10 billion plan for roads, bridges

(The Center Square) – The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission approved on Wednesday a record $10 billion plan for building and maintaining roads and bridges during the next five… Read More

July 7, 2022
State Government
Missouri becomes 10th state to create prison nurseries with new law, $495,000 budget

(The Center Square) – Children born to inmates in Missouri’s prisons will be allowed to reside with their mothers in the institution under a new law. Beginning July 1, 2025,… Read More

July 6, 2022
State Government
New Missouri law ends restrictions on visiting patients in long-term care, hospitals

(The Center Square) – A bill allowing “compassionate care visitors” access to patients of hospitals or residents of long-term care facilities was signed into law Thursday by Missouri Republican… Read More

July 1, 2022
State Government
Gov. Parson to veto tax credit while approving Missouri’s $47.5 billion budget

(The Center Square) – Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Parson signaled a veto of a bill giving some Missourians a tax credit of $500 to $1,000 for 2021 when he… Read More

July 1, 2022
State Government
New Missouri law requires photo ID to vote in November midterms, thereafter

(The Center Square) – Missouri’s elections are secure and Republican Gov. Mike Parson said a bill he signed into law requiring a photo identification to vote would maintain that… Read More

June 30, 2022