JEFFERSON CITY - State Budget Director Linda Luebbering announced today that 2015 fiscal year-to-date net general revenue collections increased 4.3 percent compared to 2014, from $2.48 billion last year to $2.59 billion this year. Net general revenue collections for October 2014 increased by 6.1 percent compared to those for October 2013, from $530.9 million to $563.0 million. GROSS COLLECTIONS BY TAX TYPE - Download the Excel Spread Sheet Individual income tax collections • Increased 5.8 percent for the year, from $1.74 billion last year to $1.84 billion this year. • Increased 6.4 percent for the month. Sales and use tax collections • Increased 3.3 percent for the year, from $644.8 million last year to $666.0 million this year. • Increased
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CPR training was recently extended to the entire Poplar Bluff R-I staff after Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital medical professionals credited our athletic trainer and coaching staff this summer for saving the life of a student athlete by using mouth to mouth. About 85 district employees representing all buildings and numerous departments participated in the voluntary training offered by R-I Health & Drug Free Coordinator Sheryl Talkington and her school nursing staff after business hours in the Missouri Room. “CPR saves lives every day,” Talkington stated. “We certainly have witnessed that firsthand this year.”
Nov 02,Butler County hasn’t seen a race like this since, well, ever. An election with two Republicans running, one on the ballot and one as a write-in, and a Democrat is very unique in this heavily Republican county. One key controversy within the race focuses on the $25,000 compensation for collecting taxes for the city of Poplar Bluff; this is in addition to the $62k salary the county official receives. Tammy Marler, the write-in candidate, was first to speak out against using the office for personal gain. The interim collector and Democrat candidate, Chris Michel, told SEMO TIMES he would not accept any personal payments of tax income. Emily Parks, Republican Candidate, choosing to evade giving a direct answer to the
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Nov 01,PHOTO - Cindy Jenks, DNAP Board, Candi Whitlow, DNAP Board and Bloodlines of Salem Descendant, Kat Robinson, Event Coordinator and Bloodlines of Salem, Lynn Maples, Museum Curator. There will be a huge Halloween celebration in Doniphan Friday evening and the town has an unusual bit of genealogy to credit for the celebration. When Kat Robinson started researching her family’s genealogy, she ran across something very surprising. She found she was a direct descendant of the Bloodlines of Salem Massachusetts. “Luckily, my multi-great grandparents, Thomas and Mrs. Roberts, weren’t executed, but they were banished to Rhode Island,” explained Robinson. This was prior to the famous witch trials of 1692. Those trials resulted in the execution of twenty people, most of
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