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April 2011 Stories

• 4/28/2011: Radio Story - House passed bill that would prevent the government from limiting a citizen's right to purchase and possess gun ammunition
• 4/28/2011: Newspaper Story - Legislators worked into the late hours of the night Wednesday debting legislation modifying numerous tax credit provisions.
• 4/28/2011: Radio Story - Auditor Tom Schweich's office, a major recipient of Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder's campaign donations a year ago, plans to audit Kinder's travel reimbursements.
• 4/27/2011: Newspaper Story - State representative Chris Kelly has requested a special session for the Ameren bill that is currently held up in the Senate.
• 4/27/2011: Newspaper Story - The Missouri House passed a charter school bill that provides for expansion and more accountability.
• 4/27/2011: Radio Story - Governor Nixon signs off on the repeal of Proposition B restrictions, going against voters' decision last November.
• 4/27/2011: Radio Story - Governor Nixon signs his dog-breeding bill in a late press conference Wednesday.
• 4/27/2011: Newspaper Story - The governor enacts a law that repeals Proposition B dog-breeding requirements.
• 4/27/2011: Radio Story - A new congressional map goes to the governor's desk for approval after it was passed in the House and Senate Wednesday.
• 4/27/2011: Newspaper Story - Congressional redistricting map is passed by both branches of Missouri's legislature ending stalemate.
• 4/26/2011: Radio Story - The Missouri National Guard assists Poplar Bluff with flood relief, as hundreds have been evacuated from homes with more rain expected to come
• 4/26/2011: Newspaper Story - Two men made off with the Lieutenant Governor's car and burned it to the ground after he left his keys in the car.
• 4/26/2011: Radio Story - Senate Committee hears testimony over bill that would closely regulate payday loans
• 4/26/2011: Radio Story - Representative Chris Kelly is asking for a special session on nuclear plant in Callaway County.
• 4/26/2011: Radio Story - Proposed amendment requiring lawmakers to get drug tested shot down in Senate
• 4/26/2011: Newspaper Story - Mother nature's attacks on Missouri dominate the opening of Missouri's legislature this week.
• 4/26/2011: Radio Story - The Missouri legislature returned from Easter weekend with one natural disaster over and another one on its way.
• 4/26/2011: Radio Story - Lt. Gov. Kinder's car was stolen, rammed into a building and burned to the ground.
• 4/26/2011: Newspaper Story - Restrictions on the payday loan industry comes before a Senate committee.
• 4/26/2011: Radio Story - Rain in Southeast Missouri and Tornadoes in St. Louis leave the state looking for help
• 4/26/2011: Radio Story - MODOT plans to cut 50 million a year for the next five years.
• 4/25/2011: Radio Story - Governor signs executive order that would help expedite tornado cleanup.
• 4/25/2011: Newspaper Story - Nixon calls in National Guard to help southern Missouri with flooding.
• 4/25/2011: Radio Story - Post-tornado damage leaves many Missouri communities under threat of major flooding.
• 4/24/2010: NewsBook - News summary for the week of April 18, 2010
• 4/21/2011: Radio Story - The Senate now sends to the House a bill that would reduce the number of state Representatives from 163 to 103 after the next census
• 4/21/2011: Radio Story - One Missouri Senator takes time on the floor to prep a Cape Girardeau Senator for his upcoming marriage.
• 4/20/2011: Radio Story - Missouri Senate Committee passes legislation to reiterate a workers right to vote to unionize by secret ballot.
• 4/20/2011: Newspaper Story - The Senate passed the 2012 budget with additional money for higher education.
• 4/20/2011: Newspaper Story - After years of warnings, Missouri's Second Injury Fund is threatened by a financial crisis.
• 4/20/2011: Newspaper Story - Missouri Senate passes the 2012 budget as some senators warn about a potential budget hole next year.
• 4/20/2011: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate passed the 2012 budget Wednesday, despite some senators questioning the state's fiscal future.
• 4/20/2011: Radio Story - Hundreds of protesters gathered in Jefferson City Wednesday to voice their opinions on the repeal of Prop B.
• 4/20/2011: Newspaper Story - Gov. Nixon's compromise has already come under fire by supporters of dog-breeding legislation.
• 4/20/2011: Radio Story - Governor Nixon has proclaimed next week as Rail Safety Week in Missouri.
• 4/19/2011: Newspaper Story - Umbilical cord blood donations wins a boost from a Senate committee.
• 4/19/2011: Radio Story - National Popular Vote Act doesn't get much attention in the Missouri legislature.
• 4/19/2011: Radio Story - Legislation that allows prayer in public schools and goverment buildings heads to Senate for fourth year in a row.
• 4/19/2011: Radio Story - The Missouri House approves bill limiting the use of foreign law in state courts.
• 4/19/2011: Radio Story - A point of order raised in Senate stalls debate on nuclear power plant bill indefinitely
• 4/19/2011: Radio Story - A Missouri Senate Republican says a bill affecting future phone landline users in St. Louis and Jackson County has stalled because lobbyists didn't do their job.
• 4/19/2011: Radio Story - Several special plates available to Missourians
• 4/19/2011: Radio Story - Business political action committees would be able to accept from candidate committees
• 4/19/2011: Radio Story - The Missouri house passed a bill that would tighten regulations on payday loans and increase loan awareness for consumers.
• 4/18/2011: Radio Story - Missouri travelers are changing their plans as gas prices continue to rise.
• 4/18/2011: Newspaper Story - Gov. Jay Nixon backs a compromise on Proposition B dog-breeding legislation.
• 4/18/2011: Newspaper Story - Republican U.S. representatives met behind doors with state senators Monday to discuss redistricting plans
• 4/18/2011: Radio Story - U.S. Republican representatives met behind closed doors to discuss redistricting with state senators and representatives.
• 4/18/2011: Radio Story - Governor Nixon proposes prop B compromise.
• 4/18/2011: Radio Story - The Governor backed a compromise to Proposition B headlined by weaker regulations and more than one million dollars added to its budget.
• 4/18/2011: Newspaper Story - The Senate approves federal funding for local school districts, ending a standoff with the House.
• 4/17/2010: NewsBook - News summary for the week of April 11, 2010
• 4/14/2011: Radio Story - Governor Nixon passed an extended benefits bill into law extending jobless aid for Missouri's unemployed.
• 4/14/2011: Radio Story - After debate about procedures that most effectively protect children from lead poisoning, House members passed a bill giving federal government control over lead abatement
• 4/14/2011: Radio Story - Missouri Senate Republicans have delayed a vote on congressional redistricting, frustrating Republican leaders in the House.
• 4/14/2011: Radio Story - The Senate passes a bill to expand the diseases firefighters are presumed to have caught in the line of duty.
• 4/14/2011: Radio Story - A victim of domestic violence shares her story at the state Capitol.
• 4/14/2011: Radio Story - Missouri's farmers get protection from legislation passed in Missouri's Capitol
• 4/14/2011: Radio Story - Missouri's House and Senate fail to reach an agreement on a congressional redistricting map.
• 4/13/2011: Radio Story - Missouri animal shelters come together for Humane Day
• 4/13/2011: Newspaper Story - With a partisan vote, the House gave first-round approval to limitations on the payday loan industry.
• 4/13/2011: Newspaper Story - Muslims traveled from St. Louis to raise awareness and learn about the legislative process.
• 4/13/2011: Newspaper Story - Gov. Jay Nixon signs unemployment benefits extension bill after a compromise with Senate GOP.
• 4/13/2011: Newspaper Story - The Missouri House votes to repeal a number of provisions set in place by November's Proposition B.
• 4/13/2011: Radio Story - Religious activists share their thoughts about Missouri politics and equality
• 4/13/2011: Radio Story - The Senate's newly approved congressional map will head to the House for approval.
• 4/13/2011: Newspaper Story - The Senate passed a redistricting proposal Wednesday after continued debate among Republicans.
• 4/13/2011: Radio Story - The Missouri House gave final approval to a bill that would overhaul dog breeding laws.
• 4/12/2011: Radio Story - The public testified at a Senate Committee hearing on whether the House-passed welfare drug testing bill would help or harm children dependent on funds
• 4/12/2011: Radio Story - House Judiciary Chair Stanley Cox wants to get rid of Missouri's Sentencing Advisory Commission
• 4/12/2011: Radio Story - A Republican presidential contender spoke to a crowd of 200 at Missouri's Capitol.
• 4/12/2011: Newspaper Story - Potential Presidential Candidate, Herman Cain speaks at the anti-tax rally on the lawn of Missouri's Capitol.
• 4/12/2011: Newspaper Story - Three hundred activists gather in Missouri State Capitol to participate in the Prolife Action Day.
• 4/12/2011: Newspaper Story - A Missouri Senate committee is urged to require drug testing of welfare recipients.
• 4/12/2011: Radio Story - Republican Senators say they're opposed to a redistricting plan from the Republican House
• 4/12/2011: Radio Story - Bill to ban bath salts still undergoing lengthy process
• 4/12/2011: Radio Story - A measure to kick legislators out of office who leave the state to avoid a vote sees no debate.
• 4/12/2011: Radio Story - The Missouri House passes legislation that would reinstate unemployment benefits for 10,000 Missourians.
• 4/11/2011: Newspaper Story - Members of the press spoke against a bill that will seal access to crime scene photographs and videos
• 4/11/2011: Newspaper Story - Senate appropriations committee adds $20 million to higher education budget reducing for 2012.
• 4/11/2011: Radio Story - Crime scene photos will not be accessible by the public or the press under a bill heard by the house committee on Crime Prevention and Public Safety.
• 4/11/2011: Radio Story - The Senate Committee on redistricting narrowly passes House redistricting plan.
• 4/11/2011: Newspaper Story - A Senate committee approved a House redistricting map that removes a St. Louis congressional district
• 4/11/2011: Newspaper Story - Attorney general files brief against health insurance mandate, calling it unconstitutional.
• 4/11/2011: Radio Story - Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster files for a brief challenging the constitutionality of the federal health care mandate
• 4/10/2010: NewsBook - News summary for the week of April 4, 2010
• 4/ 7/2011: Radio Story - Some Missourians defend high-capacity ammunition clips after Arizona shootings.
• 4/ 7/2011: Radio Story - Weeks after a similar bill passed out of the Missouri House, the Senate passed a bill restricting late-term abortions and defining fetus viability
• 4/ 7/2011: Radio Story - House gives third-round approval for bill that would place restrictions on abortion inducing drugs.
• 4/ 7/2011: Newspaper Story - Missouri Senate approves the Corporate Franchise Tax and it will be eliminated with the Governor's approval.
• 4/ 7/2011: Newspaper Story - Federal budget delays could cut off federal funds sent to state and local level
• 4/ 7/2011: Radio Story - Several Republican Senators end their filibuster over extending unemployment benefits for Missourians after accepting a deal from the Senate's leaders.
• 4/ 7/2011: Radio Story - A Senate Republican filibusters another Republican bill allowing firefighters to participate in politics.
• 4/ 6/2011: Radio Story - A St. Louis Democratic Senator follows up her comments calling Rex Sinquefield a plantation owner.
• 4/ 6/2011: Newspaper Story - Senate Republicans say they will continue to filibuster if the governor does not negotiate unemployment compromises.
• 4/ 6/2011: Newspaper Story - State representatives approved a plan Wednesday that would eliminate a St. Louis congressional district.
• 4/ 6/2011: Radio Story - Senate Republicans ask the governor to compromise federal stimulus money in order to end the unemployment filibuster
• 4/ 6/2011: Radio Story - A map passed in the House will cause St. Louis County to lose one of its three congressional seats.
• 4/ 5/2011: Radio Story - In a Senate hearing, Missouri's Senate Committee deliberated bill to reduce bullying in state schools
• 4/ 5/2011: Radio Story - A Republican sponsored plan to force Attorney General Chris Koster to sue the federal government for not enforcing immigration laws stalls in the Senate.
• 4/ 5/2011: Newspaper Story - Both the Missouri House and Senate redistricting committees have voted to eliminate a Democratic St. Louis city district.
• 4/ 5/2011: Radio Story - Jackson, Jefferson counties react differently to proposed map
• 4/ 5/2011: Radio Story - The Lieutenant Governor spent over 35,000 while visiting the St. Louis area
• 4/ 5/2011: Radio Story - Missouri's House gave first-round approval to a bill that would place new restrictions on abortion-inducing drugs.
• 4/ 5/2011: Radio Story - The Missouri Housing Commission will keep their office in St. Louis
• 4/ 5/2011: Radio Story - Stagnant test scores push legislators to boost teaching efforts with reforms like no more teacher tenure and performance based pay.
• 4/ 5/2011: Radio Story - Senate Democrats stall voting on a Republican sponsored bill to increase state sovereignty
• 4/ 5/2011: Radio Story - The House Redistricting committee passed a similar map to the one the Senate passed yesterday.
• 4/ 4/2011: Newspaper Story - A resolution calling on the governor and attorney general to write a letter in protest of federal health care passed in House Rules.
• 4/ 4/2011: Radio Story - A resolution urging President Obama on how to act about health care to be heard of House floor
• 4/ 4/2011: Radio Story - The Senate Redistricting Committee unanimously passed new congressional districts.
• 4/ 4/2011: Newspaper Story - St. Louis loses one of its congressional districts under a plan adopted by a state Senate committee Monday.
• 4/ 4/2011: Radio Story - Despite the nuclear meltdown in Japan, radiation is not a concern for Missouri and its residents.
• 4/ 4/2011: Newspaper Story - The debate over localized control of the St. Louis Police Department continues in a Senate hearing.
• 4/ 4/2011: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Senate will try again to pass the expired unemployment benefits by the end of the week.
• 4/ 4/2011: Radio Story - Death knell sounds for bill giving St. Louis control of its own police department on the same day it gained approval from a Senate committee.