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January 2010 Stories

• 1/31/2010: News summary for the week of January 25, 2010
• 1/28/2010: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Senate and House have passed separate resolutions to disapprove the State Tax Commission's order to raise taxes on farmland.
• 1/28/2010: Newspaper Story - Hearing held to discuss doing away with income tax and raising sales tax to compensate.
• 1/28/2010: Radio Story - Tax exemptions for seniors and charities are threatened by new sales tax.
• 1/28/2010: Radio Story - Proposed health care bill provides options for Missouri.
• 1/28/2010: Radio Story - What does Obama's stance on nuclear power mean for Missouri?
• 1/28/2010: Radio Story - Senate passes resolution to dismiss Missouri Tax Commission's proposed changes to agricultural property tax
• 1/27/2010: Radio Story - Senate Committee hears bills which require drug tests for TANF recipients.
• 1/27/2010: Radio Story - With farmers across the state struggling to make ends meet, the House passed a resolution rejecting new taxes for some farmland.
• 1/27/2010: Radio Story - The state Gaming Commission has voted to sink the President Casino, a riverboat gambling center in St. Louis.
• 1/27/2010: Newspaper Story - The House Budget Committee passed a resolution which would ask Congress to balance the federal budget
• 1/27/2010: Radio Story - Education spokesperson says schools need more money than the state can afford.
• 1/27/2010: Newspaper Story - The Senate Education Cmte. heard a bill that would expand the definition of bullying to cover texting and social networking.
• 1/27/2010: Newspaper Story - The Joint Committee on Tax Policy called for a review of tax credit programs to determine the state's return on tax credits and the amount and type of credits still owed by the state.
• 1/27/2010: Newspaper Story - While state leaders have proposed to prevent cuts for public education, a nationally recognized early childhood education program might get less funding for the second year in a row.
• 1/27/2010: Newspaper Story - The governor's plan to provide incentives to Missouri businesses received rave reviews from witnesses in a House hearing Wednesday.
• 1/27/2010: Radio Story - Senator Rupp wants to repeal a bill he helped pass in 2007 because of negative effects.
• 1/26/2010: Radio Story - Enforcing New Texting While Driving Ban for Truck Drivers Will be Tough
• 1/26/2010: Newspaper Story - Nixon's proposal to mandate autism insurance coverage clears a Senate Committee
• 1/26/2010: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers are urged to provide Missouri's elderly with consumer protections in Medicare supplement insurance.
• 1/26/2010: Newspaper Story - Insufficient funds mean bigger problems for school operations in the state
• 1/26/2010: Newspaper Story - Five different proposals were discussed on Tuesday that would drastically alter the state's campaign finance rules.
• 1/26/2010: Radio Story - During a State Senate Committee hearing United States Congressional candidate Gary Nodler comments on women having a higher percentage of wealth.
• 1/25/2010: Newspaper Story - A bill that would allow an exception in liquor laws for Valentine's Days that fall on a Sunday was passed out of Rules Committee
• 1/25/2010: Newspaper Story - A bill that would require suspected drug users applying for welfare to be tested is still on the fast track.
• 1/25/2010: Newspaper Story - The Senate Appropriations Committee reviewed Gov. Jay Nixon's budget recommendations, and several committee members raised concern about $300 million in funds that depends on federal legislation.
• 1/25/2010: Radio Story - Governor Nixon's 2011 budget plans include a quarter-billion dollars in cuts, but Republicans say they're not enough. Theo Keith has more from Jefferson City.
• 1/25/2010: Radio Story - In a year lawmakers promised they'd focus on ethics reform and the budget crisis, one of the first bills to reach the House floor is about buying alcohol on Valentine's Day.
• 1/24/2010: News summary for the week of January 18, 2010
• 1/21/2010: Newspaper Story - HB 1670 would make Missouri 15th state to allow marijuana's usage for medical uses
• 1/21/2010: Newspaper Story - Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder criticizes agricultural tax recommendation following State of the State
• 1/21/2010: Newspaper Story - Rep. Chris Kelly has bi-partisan support for a $740M bond issue that died in the Senate last year.
• 1/21/2010: Newspaper Story - The resolution urges Congress to pass a Constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget.
• 1/20/2010: Radio Story - Governor Nixon's State of the State raised has some top Senators worried.
• 1/20/2010: Radio Story - The Missouri Capitol has a power outage before Governor's state of the state address.
• 1/20/2010: Newspaper Story - Legislators and business leaders offered mixed reactions to the governor's proposed tax incentives for some businesses.
• 1/20/2010: Newspaper Story - The GOP's responded to Gov. Nixon's speech by accusing him of trying to buy legislator's votes with jobs.
• 1/20/2010: Newspaper Story - Gov. Jay Nixon's top legislative priority is job growth, but his budget recommendation calls for 544 state job cuts
• 1/20/2010: Radio Story - Missouri's top Republicans question some of Governor Nixon's goals and recommendations for the 2010 legislative session
• 1/20/2010: Radio Story - Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder dealt out blistering attack on Governor Nixon after his State of the State address.
• 1/19/2010: Radio Story - Health care providers oppose the bill that would mandate autism insurance coverage during a Senate Committee hearing.
• 1/19/2010: Newspaper Story - Gov. Jay Nixon will lay out his budget and policy proposals for the 2010 legislative session.
• 1/19/2010: Newspaper Story - Bill mandating coverage for autism returns to House and Senate after being killed by House leadership last year.
• 1/19/2010: Newspaper Story - The House voted on a concurrent resolution to oppose the health care bills in Congress.
• 1/17/2010: News summary for the week of January 11, 2010
• 1/13/2010: Newspaper Story - A bill to require drug screening for welfare applicants is getting fast-track treatment in Missouri's legislature.
• 1/13/2010: Newspaper Story - The State Auditor said that a tax refund for businesses who file taxes on time cost Missouri $93 million in 2008 and should be repealed.
• 1/12/2010: Newspaper Story - Abolishing the income tax and borrowing are offered to Missouri senators as solutions to the state's budget problems.
• 1/12/2010: Newspaper Story - The state of Missouri borrowed $350 million from budget reserves to ease monthly cash-flow difficulties.
• 1/10/2010: News summary for the week of January 4, 2010
• 1/ 6/2010: Newspaper Story - The 2010 legislative session begins will calls for ethics form
• 1/ 6/2010: Radio Story - Ethics reform is one of the big issues for the upcoming legislative session, Senate Republican leadership said.
• 1/ 5/2010: Radio Story - In a five-hour hour hearing, a Senate environmental committee hears testimony concerning E. Coli levels at the Lake of the Ozarks.