Two small community agencies with personal ties to state Sen. Angela Mosley face questions about their budget earmarks in a debate that some involved say is more about St. Louis County politics than the cost in the state budget.
The earmarks — $300,000 for Saving Our Children, which provides a variety of services ranging from summer job placement to daycare, and $100,000 for Red Circle, which concentrates on food access — became part of the state Senate budget proposal late in the process, after the Senate Appropriations Committee had put its impression on the spending plan.
That late addition brought
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