Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, from left, Vice Chairman Lincoln Hough and Chairman Dan Hegeman, discuss an item with Drew Dampf, Hegeman’s chief of staff, as Sen. Lauren Arthur studies budget documents (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent).
By Rudi Keller Missouri Independent Conservative Cassville Republican Emory Melton, a state senator from 1973 to 1997, didn’t like it when new programs with ongoing…
