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April 2010 Stories

• 4/29/2010: Radio Story - After over 2 months of preparing to cut the budget by half a billion dollars, the House and Senate passed the final budget bills
• 4/29/2010: Radio Story - Missouri's House votes to force employers to allow workers to bring firearms onto employee parking lots.
• 4/29/2010: Newspaper Story - Two senators opt for four-legged companionship in their legislative offices.
• 4/29/2010: Radio Story - Representatives from both the House and the Senate have proposed dog fighting legislation, but neither of them have been successful.
• 4/29/2010: Radio Story - A look at how Missouri families battle eating disorders each day
• 4/28/2010: Newspaper Story - The blame game begins as both parties point fingers at each other over who let the comprehensive ethics reform bill die.
• 4/28/2010: Newspaper Story - UPDATE: Filing issues led to AT&T's sales tax license being revoked
• 4/28/2010: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers clear the state's education budgets.
• 4/28/2010: Radio Story - Missouri's legisalture clears the state's education budgets.
• 4/28/2010: Radio Story - A Missouri bill mandating drug-testing for welfare recipients has not passed during the legislative session.
• 4/27/2010: Newspaper Story - After several weeks of debate, the Senate casted a final vote to consolidate Missouri's two education departments into one all-inclusive education department
• 4/27/2010: Radio Story - Governor Nixon held an unusual evening phone conference with the heads of Missouri's higher education institutions to promote tax credit reform.
• 4/27/2010: Radio Story - House Democrats use a legislative move to push an ethics reform bill to the House floor.
• 4/27/2010: Radio Story - The bill will delay the school funding formula phase-in for a year, saving the state $93 million.
• 4/27/2010: Radio Story - Missouri Honor Flight veterans are recognized at the State Capitol and greeted by legislators.
• 4/27/2010: Radio Story - Legislators voted to consolidate and reorganize the Missouri Board of Education.
• 4/27/2010: Newspaper Story - Gov. Jay Nixon held a teleconference with higher education officials Tuesday to discuss the need for tax credit reform to help underfunded education institutions in Missouri.
• 4/27/2010: Radio Story - Legislation on pseudoephedrine products slows at the end of the legislation session.
• 4/27/2010: Radio Story - Six-year-olds in St. Louis and Kansas City would be required to start kindergarten before the age of 7 if this bill passes.
• 4/26/2010: Radio Story - Just days after the speaker of the House said he would not address tax credits this session, the state auditor said the program is creating major problems for Missouri.
• 4/26/2010: Newspaper Story - AT&T is currently committing a crime by operating in Missouri with a revoked sales tax license
• 4/26/2010: Newspaper Story - The state auditor said Monday that Missouri tax credits will require more government controls and better fiscal projections.
• 4/26/2010: Radio Story - At a public conference committee meeting over Missouri's budget, lawmakers worked out their disagreements in private.
• 4/26/2010: Newspaper Story - The House Rules Committee dealt ethics reform a major blow on Monday night by voting to send it back to its original committee.
• 4/26/2010: Newspaper Story - The House gave first-round approval to an appropriations bill with an amendment that would restore $31 million in funding for Ellis Fischel Cancer Center.
• 4/26/2010: Radio Story - The Senate passed an amendment that would ban all red light cameras in Missouri.
• 4/26/2010: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Senate has given first round approval to a bill that could ban red light cameras in the state
• 4/26/2010: Newspaper Story - Despite more than $400 million in cuts to Nixon's budget recommendation, the state's budget director says more cuts are likely needed.
• 4/25/2010: News summary for the week of April 19, 2010
• 4/22/2010: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Senate votes to unify education oversight in the state, but not make any real power changes.
• 4/22/2010: Newspaper Story - Nixon is cutting an additional $45 million from Missouri's current fiscal year budget in the wake of plummeting state revenue
• 4/22/2010: Radio Story - The House Higher Education Committee chair proposes boosting state-funded college scholarships by $150 million by 2014
• 4/22/2010: Radio Story - The Senate voted yes to a resolution that would dissolve the Department of Higher Education and Elementary Education.
• 4/22/2010: Radio Story - Missouri's House votes to remove an extra scholarship bonus the state gives students in private schools.
• 4/22/2010: Radio Story - Rep. Gayle Kingery says he will up funding from to $150 million by 2014
• 4/21/2010: Newspaper Story - Speaker Ron Richard said he's not letting any economic development bill get passed his desk.
• 4/21/2010: Radio Story - State lawmakers take time from the legislative duties to play in a charity softball game.
• 4/21/2010: Radio Story - A D.C lawyer will represent Lt. Governor Peter Kinder in suit against federal government
• 4/21/2010: Newspaper Story - A move to consolidate the state's education boards stalled on the Senate floor Wednesday after some legislators blocked a vote.
• 4/21/2010: Radio Story - The debate over open school enrollment has barely begun.
• 4/20/2010: Newspaper Story - House committee hears plan to classify animal waste methane gas as a renewable energy source.
• 4/20/2010: Radio Story - House Public Safety Committee Hears Arguments for and Against Banning Synthetic Marijuana
• 4/20/2010: Radio Story - The House Agriculture Committee considers adding animal waste to renewable energy standards.
• 4/20/2010: Radio Story - The senate passed a bill that creates a new retirement plan for new state employees.
• 4/20/2010: Radio Story - Access Missouri scholarships for Missouri residents will change in 2014.
• 4/20/2010: Radio Story - Senator Brad Lager says steps are being taken to bring the resolution to the ballot boxes.
• 4/20/2010: Newspaper Story - Missouri's House votes to cut an extra scholarship bonus provided to private college students.
• 4/20/2010: Newspaper Story - Senators voted to consolidate Missouri's two education departments, but a subsequent bill detailing the merger stalled discussion
• 4/20/2010: Newspaper Story - New state employees would have to wait longer to retire and receive benefits
• 4/19/2010: Newspaper Story - A bill advanced in the Senate on Monday that would reduce in home services for poorer Missourians, as the state looks to balance its budget.
• 4/19/2010: Newspaper Story - Senate Judiciary Committee hears bills to change DWI statutes and also assert state sovereignty
• 4/19/2010: Radio Story - There was no opposition at a Senate committee hearing over a bill to limit federal power in Missouri.
• 4/19/2010: Radio Story - With less than four weeks left in the session the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed a bill over one of the biggest issues of the session.
• 4/19/2010: Radio Story - The state Senate advanced a bill Monday that would cut some Medicaid services for Missouri seniors, but legislators emphasized the measure's cost-saving potential.
• 4/18/2010: News summary for the week of April 12, 2010
• 4/15/2010: Newspaper Story - Robinson was Senate doorman for nearly 30 years
• 4/15/2010: Newspaper Story - The Ellis Fischel Cancer Center has another chance to receive funding for its new cancer facility
• 4/15/2010: Newspaper Story - The Senate voted to raise requirements needed before performing abortions.
• 4/15/2010: Radio Story - The law extends specific protection to a mother defending an unborn child.
• 4/14/2010: Radio Story - Governor Nixon is under fire after saying part of a budget bill is unconstitutional
• 4/14/2010: Newspaper Story - The governor's college tuition freeze clears the legislature.
• 4/14/2010: Newspaper Story - The house gave first-round approval to a bill that would require photo ID to vote and create advance voting periods before elections.
• 4/14/2010: Radio Story - The bill requires a valid photo ID for voters at the polls.
• 4/14/2010: Radio Story - A Senate bill acquired unanimous support for another year of funding to ward the Missouri Career Ladder program.
• 4/13/2010: Newspaper Story - Tougher limits on lobbying and contributions clear a House committee, but don't end questions about the bill's future.
• 4/13/2010: Newspaper Story - Tea Party activists speak out against taxes and universal health care while opposition points to underlying racism.
• 4/13/2010: Newspaper Story - Missouri's attorney general was a no-show for a legislative hearing on urging him to join the federal health bill lawsuit.
• 4/13/2010: Radio Story - House committee met to discuss suing the Federal Government, claiming the Health care act is unconstitutional.
• 4/13/2010: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Senate approved a package of bills to cut the size of state spending.
• 4/13/2010: Radio Story - Proposed legislation redirects funds from red light camera fines to education funds.
• 4/13/2010: Radio Story - Interest groups affiliated with the Tea Party movement
• 4/13/2010: Radio Story - With the need for a balanced budget looming, Missouri Senators look at cutting summer schooling and Career Ladder
• 4/12/2010: Radio Story - A former Missouri Veterans Commission accountant is going to get to keep the $90,000 she stole.
• 4/12/2010: Newspaper Story - The Senate begins debating budget Wednesday
• 4/12/2010: Radio Story - The Senate gave approval to a bill that might require some teachers to change their Facebooks.
• 4/12/2010: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate voted to require new state employee's to contribute to their own retirement system
• 4/11/2010: News summary for the week of April 5, 2010
• 4/ 8/2010: Newspaper Story - Vague language in cyberbullying legislation passed Thursday has some Missouri representatives questioning its effectiveness.
• 4/ 8/2010: Radio Story - A portion of I-70 named after former St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire could be changed.
• 4/ 8/2010: Radio Story - House passed HB 1543 by a vote of 129-17 which defines cyberbullying and expands immunity for teachers enforcing school discipline.
• 4/ 7/2010: Radio Story - Harsh, vocal opposition highlighted the fight to put cameras in the city's downtown district.
• 4/ 7/2010: Radio Story - Missouri's governor says he hasn't hidden anything from lawmakers or Missourians during the budget process.
• 4/ 7/2010: Radio Story - Manufacturing Jobs Act will reward companies that create or keep Missouri jobs
• 4/ 7/2010: Radio Story - A lot of talk about how to save the state from its budget crisis, and Wednesday, the House moved forward and then backward on Gov. Nixon's plan to merge the state's Water Patrol.
• 4/ 7/2010: Newspaper Story - State control of departments took one step forward in the Senate and stagnated in the House after two committee hearings Wednesday.
• 4/ 7/2010: Newspaper Story - A bill would expand counties that can enact nuisance abatement ordinances and also extend items listed in the statute.
• 4/ 7/2010: Newspaper Story - MU officials have faith the tuition freeze plan will be upheld, despite a cut proposed Tuesday by the Senate Appropriations Committee
• 4/ 7/2010: Newspaper Story - A legislative priority to reform the state's driving while intoxicated laws advanced in the House today, and needs one more vote to go to the Senate.
• 4/ 7/2010: Radio Story - Missouri police would be able to get blood samples from DWI suspects under an amendment the House approved Wednesday.
• 4/ 7/2010: Radio Story - The Missouri House votes overwhelmingly in favor of a bill allowing faculty to spank students their students without repercussions from the Department of Social Services.
• 4/ 6/2010: Radio Story - Linda Luebbering says the governor wants to discuss the budget rather than make demands of the the legislature
• 4/ 6/2010: Newspaper Story - Insurance companies express concern with Senate's autism bill, feel parred down House version is tolerable
• 4/ 6/2010: Newspaper Story - The in-state tuition freeze deal struck between Gov. Nixon and Missouri Higher Education could be undermined by a new budget cut, according to Senate budget leaders.
• 4/ 6/2010: Newspaper Story - Legislators deny ballroom dancing and question open enrollment amendments.
• 4/ 6/2010: Radio Story - The House Committee on Higher Education unanimously passed Access Missouri bill substitute in a executive session on Tuesday.
• 4/ 6/2010: Radio Story - A Special Standing Committee on General Laws discussed a bill that would stop funding to the NFL if they continue to blackout broadcasts
• 4/ 5/2010: Newspaper Story - A Columbia storage space was used to hold fraudulently obtained hazardous material containers
• 4/ 4/2010: News summary for the week of March 29, 2010