Driver's License Exam Station Opening in St. Peters

The new station is set to open on April 1.

St. Peters will be home to a new driver examination station beginning on Monday.  Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ronald S. Johnson, commanding officer, Troop C, Weldon Spring, announced that a new station will open on April 1st just north of the Interstate 70-Highway 79 interchange. The station will be located at 580 North Service Road—a Missouri Highway Patrol zone office. The facility, which will also be a motorcylce test site  will open at 8 a.m. and close at 5 p.m.The examination station will also be a motorcycle test site.

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Two St. Peters Residents Involved in Illegal Immigrant Licensing Scheme

Two St. Peters residents helped illegal immigrants get Missouri identification.

Two St. Peters residents were among those involved in a scheme that provided Missouri drivers licenses to illegal immigrants.  According to court documents, two men, Jorge Fabian Pesqueda Perez and Ricardo Ortiz, provided immigrants with the identifying information of legal United State citizens. The men instructed the immigrants to meet with Yvette Roberson, a employee of a privately operated Missouri Department of Revenue Office in St. Louis County. Authorities said Roberson took the false information and used it to give the illegals Missouri driver’s licenses and non-drivers identification documents. In one case, Roberson advised an individual that the idenity he was trying to use had criminal warrants attached to it and he should find …

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Dream On: How Would You Spend $580 Million Powerball Jackpot?

The Associated Press is reporting that two winning Powerball tickets were sold for last night's drawing.

No one has stepped forward yet, but the Associated Press is reporting that two winning tickets were sold for last night's Powerball lottery. The AP says the winning Powerball tickets came from Missouri and Arizona. The winning numbers are 5, 16, 22, 23, 29 with the Powerball number of 6, according to the Powerball website.  Missouri Lottery officials say the winning ticket came from the Kansas City area. An exact store location will be released later today, according to spokeswoman Susan Goedde. “It is so exciting to sell one of these Powerball tickets,” said May Scheve Reardon, executive director of the Missouri Lottery, in a press release. “In addition, we sold two tickets that matched all five white balls, which means they each win $1 …

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Clint Zweifel Re-elected as Missouri State Treasurer

Democratic incumbent Clint Zweifel gave his acceptance speech just before midnight Tuesday, after a night of number watching in a close race with Republican challenger Cole McNary.

Democratic incumbent Clint Zweifel and Republican challenger Rep. Cole McNary faced off in the Nov. 6 election for the position of Missouri State Treasurer.  As results came in Tuesday night, both candidates gathered with friends and family at St. Louis area watch parties. Initially, it was a tight race, but ultimately Zweifel declared victory and thanked his supporters just before midnight. "I think a lot of this illustrates hard work and investment in each other," Zweifel said. With 100 percent of the precincts counted early Wednesday morning, Zweifel had 50.3 percent of the vote and McNary had 45.5 percent of the vote. Zweifel tells Patch McNary did call him and concede Tuesday night. Both parties tell Patch they knew it would be a …

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Political Poll: Spence or Nixon, Who Has Your Vote?

If the election were held today, which Missouri Governor candidate would you vote for?

Three weeks from today the Missouri governor's race will come to an end. In a race you can't miss given the amount of television ads, voters across the Show-Me State will get a chance to vote for new, or old, leadership in Jefferson City. Incumbent Democrat Jay Nixon is taking on Republican Dave Spence for the role of Missouri's governor. The last time we looked at this race, Patch readers seemed to think Spence had the edge. In our poll, Spence picked up 64 percent of the vote to be Nixon, but that poll only had 17 total votes. In the last month have things changed? Does Nixon have your vote? Are you leaning to the new guy Spence? Why? Among the races in Missouri, this one seems to have less interest. Is that true? Are voters more …

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5:07 pm on Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The fact that 70% of Missouri voters are opposed to "Obamacare" only proves that 70% of Missouri voters would probably fail a reading comprehension and math test.   more ›

Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Mayor Pagano Supports Governor Nixon In Re-Election Bid

St. Peters Mayor Len Pagano encourages Missouri voters to keep Governor Jay Nixon in office.

People often ask me, “How do you keep getting things done in St. Peters?” We get things done for our residents because we work with other people and organizations, we look for the best solutions, and we believe real compromise is a good thing that helps make our city a great place to live, work, play and raise a family.   We don’t always agree on everything, but we’ve learned you can get a lot more done by focusing on the things that you can agree on, working together to achieve big goals. In the last four years, we’ve all faced economic challenges. Yet, St. Peters has completed crucial projects like roads to help move people safely, bring customers to grow our existing businesses; bring new businesses and jobs to St. Peters. The …

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Political Poll: Kinder or Montee, Who Has Your Vote?

If the election were held today, which Missouri Lt. Governor candidate would you vote for?

In the Presidential election, voters get to pick one ticket. If you vote for Barack Obama, you're voting for Joe Biden as Vice President. If you punch in Mitt Romney's name on Election Day, you’re also voting for Paul Ryan. Missouri, on the other hand, is different. In Jefferson City right now Governor Jay Nixon, a Democrat, and his second-in-command Lt. Governor Peter Kinder, a Republican, lead the state.  This November 6, just six short weeks away, voters in Missouri will get a chance to decide what the leadership in Jefferson City will look like. Will one party take control, or will we have four more years of a split party? Last week we asked your opinion on the Governor's race between Nixon and his Republican challenger Dave Spence. …

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Political Poll: Nixon or Spence, Who Has Your Vote?

If the election were held today, which Missouri Governor candidate would you vote for?

Tuesday marks seven weeks out from the Nov. 6 when the general election. Most of the attention has focused on the race to the White House, but there are other races voters will be deciding. Last week we polled the St. Charles CountyPatch readership  on the race for the Senate between Claire McCaskill and Todd Akin. After a lengthy discussion, the voters were tabulated. Akin was a clear favorite with 88 votes (71 percent) to McCaskill's 35 votes (28 percent). This week's political poll will focus on Jefferson City. Incumbent Democrat Jay Nixon  is taking on Republican Dave Spence . Does Nixon have your vote? Are you leaning to the new guy Spence? Why?  Share your thoughts in the comments below and vote in the poll.

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Recount Says Koenen to Face Wagner in November

A recount didn't change the outcome of Missouri's 2nd congressional district democratic primary vote.

Democrat Glenn Koenen, of Oakville, will face republican Ann Wagner for Missouri's second congressional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Democratic challenger Harold Whitfield, of Kirkwood, requested a recount of the  Aug. 7 primary results after original returns showed a 48-vote difference between Whitfield and Koenen. The recount completed Wednesday shows Koenen winning the nomination with 7,894 votes to Whitfield's 7,848. Totals changed slightly with the recount but not enough for Whitfield to capture the majority of the votes, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Wednesday. Learn more at stltoday.com.

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Political Rewind: Gov. Nixon Logs $600k in Taxpayer-Funded Travel Expenses

Patch prides itself on local coverage, but Missouri politics can have just as much an effect as local government. Here's an easy guide to what happened this week on the state political scene.

Editor's Note: This article was created by aggregating news articles from Missouri Watchdog. McCaskill leads congressional candidates in out-of-state campaign donations Although Claire McCaskill is Missouri’s senator, they seem to love her in such places as New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. An examination of election donations shows that McCaskill, a Democrat, is the only Missouri congressional candidate who gets more individual campaign support from outside the Show Me State than from within its borders. Fifty-seven percent of the $6.3 million that McCaskill has raised for the 2012campaign from individual donations comes from other states. The next highest is District 5 incumbent Democrat Emanuel Cleaver, who has raised 41 …

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