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March 2006 Stories

• 3/31/2006: News summary for the week of March 27, 2006
• 3/30/2006: Newspaper Story - National and local prosecuting attorneys say that broad minimum sentences can result in more offenders on the streets
• 3/29/2006: Radio Story - Missouri lawmakers are considering legislation that would require seatbelts on all school buses.
• 3/29/2006: Newspaper Story - Supporters of disability rights in Missouri rallied at the Capitol. Republican and Democrat leaders spoke to the crowd.
• 3/28/2006: Newspaper Story - More than a hundred men and women came to the Capitol for a rally and to talk to legislators.
• 3/28/2006: Newspaper Story - As hunting seasons approach, hunters must stay abreast of bird flu activity in the U.S.
• 3/28/2006: A Senate Committee seeks to root out Medicaid fraud and create a "Missouri Prescription Drug Website."
• 3/23/2006: Radio Story - Missouri students are spending their spring break on the coast, but not in the way you'd normally think.
• 3/22/2006: Newspaper Story - Two Missouri House members have introduced two separate bills to require school districts to have policies on bullying.
• 3/19/2006: News summary for the week of March 13, 2006
• 3/16/2006: Newspaper Story - The Senate passed legislation to strips away limits on individual contributions to candidates.
• 3/16/2006: Radio Story - In a 29-3 vote Thursday, the Missouri Senate voted to pass a bill which removes campaign contribution limits.
• 3/15/2006: Radio Story - Charlie Shields wants to prohibit contributions during a legislative session.
• 3/15/2006: Radio Story - Four people died in Renick in tornados Sunday. The town just missed the cutoff for a grant that would give them tornado sirens.
• 3/15/2006: Radio Story - Senator Cauthorn says cattle herds in Missouri are constantly tested for the disease. The herds are also tagged and given a number ID to ensure they can be tracked back to their producer.
• 3/15/2006: Newspaper Story - House health care appropriations bills are debated and decided
• 3/14/2006: Radio Story - Soon Missourians could compare prices online for their prescription drugs.
• 3/14/2006: Radio Story - The Democrats are using the filibuster in the hopes of preventing voter identification legislation from coming to a vote.
• 3/14/2006: Newspaper Story - Missouri's governor won a key test vote on his plans to sell a portion of the state's college loan program.
• 3/14/2006: Radio Story - Gov. Blunt spoke with President Bush Tuesday asking for federal money to help deal with damages from the weekend's severe weather.
• 3/14/2006: Radio Story - The Missouri House Judiciary Committee heard testimony Tuesday from both sides of the eminent domain debate.
• 3/14/2006: Newspaper Story - The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill to reform the state's eminent domain system.
• 3/14/2006: Radio Story - Mad Cow disease is being prevented in Missouri by constant surveillence and testing for the disease.
• 3/14/2006: Newspaper Story - Creation of a Medicaid fraud bill follows two months of extensive testimony.
• 3/13/2006: Radio Story - A tornado killed four and injured 26 people in Renick, Missouri. The mayor's wife says the town has no warning sirens. She also says the town has been denied funding for sirens for three years.
• 3/13/2006: Radio Story - The State Emergency Management Agency has asked President Bush for federal aid after tornadoes ripped through the state over the weekend.
• 3/12/2006: News summary for the week of March 6, 2006
• 3/11/2006: Newspaper Story - The MOHELA board of directors said they have not finalized plans for a sale at a public meeting.
• 3/10/2006: Newspaper Story - Financial aid for disabled worker's personal care assistance in jeopardy.
• 3/ 9/2006: Radio Story - If Missouri Senate Republicans get their way, voters will have to produce a photo ID when they go to the polls.
• 3/ 9/2006: Newspaper Story - Legislative caucuses have been accused of being smokescreens to avoid disclosure of gifts from lobbyists on legislative reports.
• 3/ 8/2006: Radio Story - The mild Missouri winter has caused an early emergence of the tick population, possibly leading to increased incidents of disease.
• 3/ 8/2006: Newspaper Story - The House sponsor of legislation to freeze funding for Missouri colleges says he intends only a short-term cap in order to fully fund the state's scholarship program
• 3/ 8/2006: Radio Story - Speaker Rod Jetton vehemently denies he was paid off by strip club owners to help kill legislation that would negatively impact the sex industry.
• 3/ 8/2006: Radio Story - Senator Michael GIbbons says he wants to clean house in the senate by getting rid of unneed committees that no longer have a purpose.
• 3/ 8/2006: Radio Story - State auditor Claire McCaskill recently concluded an audit of Transportation Development Districts, or TDD's. The audit found the TDD's were able to increase taxes without public knowledge
• 3/ 7/2006: Radio Story - An amendment to ban eminent domain seizures was struck down overwhelmingly by the Missouri House.
• 3/ 7/2006: Newspaper Story - A bill that combines several sex offender laws passed through the Senate on Tuesday and will now proceed to the House.
• 3/ 7/2006: Radio Story - Senators in Missouri's General Assembly debated a long list of sex offense bills, including one to update and refine the Sex Offender Registry.
• 3/ 7/2006: Radio Story - A group of Missouri Fisherman rely only on the strength of their hands to catch catfish in murky rivers.
• 3/ 7/2006: Newspaper Story - The bill emphasizes scholarships and caps operating funds.
• 3/ 7/2006: Radio Story - The Governor defended his ethanol plan at his Advisory Council on Agrigulture.
• 3/ 7/2006: Newspaper Story - Rep. J.C. Kuessner, D-Eminence, sponsored the change.
• 3/ 6/2006: Radio Story - Republican Senator Matt Bartle is proposing a bill that would take money from the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement and put it into stem cell research
• 3/ 6/2006: Radio Story - Children weighing less than 80 pounds or younger than 8 to use a booster seat.
• 3/ 6/2006: Radio Story - The Kansas City Star reported over the weekend that strip clubs donated $35,000 to a fundraising committee with close ties to House Speaker Rod Jetton.
• 3/ 3/2006: News summary for the week of February 27, 2006
• 3/ 2/2006: Newspaper Story - Currently, a loophole is likely keeping thousands of dollars of lobbyist gifts off lawmakers' disclosure report.
• 3/ 2/2006: Radio Story - Builder and State Representative Bob Johnson says the housing bubble burst will lead to unemployment in construction and in turn, effect business and commerce.
• 3/ 1/2006: Radio Story - The once cut Ticket to Work program, which allows disabled Missourians to work and collect state health insurance, is on it's way to being reistated. Democrats aren't happy with the bill.
• 3/ 1/2006: Newspaper Story - The Missouri House restored some medical assistance to certain disabled workers.
• 3/ 1/2006: Radio Story - The recent hike in temperature and drought in southwestern Missouri could affect the wildlife population of Missouri.
• 3/ 1/2006: Radio Story - The same group that protested the funeral of a St. Joseph soldier killed in Iraq, stormed the Capitol Building today to protect the new law
• 3/ 1/2006: Newspaper Story - Missouri amps up preparations for a possible bird flu pandemic
• 3/ 1/2006: Radio Story - Senator Jason Crowell says Roe v. Wade was a wrong Supreme Court opinion and he wants a Missouri constitutional amendment to ban abortion all together.