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Missouri closed out its 2012 fiscal year with slightly better than expected revenues. But that doesn't necessarily translate to a budget surplus.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• Missouri lawmakers negotiate the final version of the state budget.

• A petition to raise the minimum wage in Missouri has reached the secretary of state.

• A Missouri House committee backs legislation that would change restrictions on who may ride with permit drivers.

The Missouri Senate took the next step Tuesday toward beginning final negotiations with the House on next year’s state budget.  Senate members struggled with whether to bind themselves to various positions they support.

With three weeks left in the legislative session, Governor Jay Nixon is urging lawmakers to fund

Nine conservative Republican senators who held up debate on Missouri's budget plan had claimed it spent too much, relied too heavily on one-time revenue sources and needed a structural overhaul.

The budget chairman for the Missouri House is not happy with the Senate’s decision early today (Wednesday) to restore 28 million dollars for blind pensions.  An amendment by GOP Senator Jim Lembke of St. Louis County reversed the cut that the House wanted to use for Higher Education.