Nixon wants Missouri legislature to send him fuel tax increase
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A proposal to increase Missouri’s gas tax clings to life in the state Senate, and Governor Jay Nixon (D) is asking lawmakers to get it to his desk.
The Transportation Department provided this image of deterioration in the Highway 291 bridge over the Missouri River.
The governor traveled to the Kansas City area to see the Highway 291 bridge over the Missouri River that the Transportation Department has closed due to a deteriorating structure. Nixon used the bridge as a backdrop to deliver a message to the state legislature: he wants it to pass a proposed fuel tax increase that has been stalled in the Senate.
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