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March 2013 Stories

• 3/31/2013: NewsBook - News summary for the week of March 25, 2013
• 3/29/2013: Newspaper Story - Medicaid debate fireworks begin as House passes 2014 budget
• 3/28/2013: Radio Story - Senate Majority Leader threatens special session over controversy in Department of Revenue
• 3/28/2013: Radio Story - Miss America 2008 speaks out on eating disorders at the Missouri Capitol
• 3/28/2013: Radio Story - House passes measure capping non-economic damages in medical lawsuits
• 3/28/2013: Newspaper Story - Miss America fought for Missouri Legislators to pass a bill that would mandate eating disorders coverage
• 3/28/2013: Newspaper Story - Sen. Kurt Schaefer says the Department of Revenue has broken at least three state laws
• 3/28/2013: Radio Story - $24.8B budget clears House without Medicaid expansion
• 3/26/2013: Radio Story - House opens budget debate with Medicaid fireworks
• 3/26/2013: Radio Story - A Republican Senator says many Missourians' identities could be endangered through new licensing process
• 3/26/2013: Radio Story - Back from legislative recess, Senate Republicans reload on measure to block federal gun proposals
• 3/26/2013: Radio Story - Missouri lawmakers push to expand regulations for in home day care centers
• 3/26/2013: Newspaper Story - A House committee hears emotional testimoney to expand daycare regulation.
• 3/24/2013: NewsBook - News summary for the week of March 18, 2013
• 3/21/2013: Radio Story - No actual trade required as part of Nixon's $1.9 billion trade agreement with Taiwan and South Korea
• 3/20/2013: Radio Story - Report contradicts residents’ concerns in Coldwater Creek cancer cases
• 3/20/2013: Newspaper Story - A look at the current state of Missouri's Medicaid system and the debate over expansion.
• 3/20/2013: Radio Story - Social Services Department won't talk about audit; 13 corrective action plans issued
• 3/20/2013: Newspaper Story - Rural and urban leadership come together in DESE to serve Missouri's education system
• 3/19/2013: Radio Story - An audit is raising concerns over how the state spent millions of dollars in federal funds.
• 3/19/2013: Radio Story - Drought conditions in the state of Missouri improves
• 3/18/2013: Radio Story - MoDOT
• 3/17/2013: NewsBook - News summary for the week of March 11, 2013
• 3/14/2013: Radio Story - Senators move one step close to giving big break to people who owe thousands in taxes
• 3/14/2013: Radio Story - Republican says sales tax hike for transportation puts state on the
• 3/14/2013: Radio Story - Missouri House panel creates new education fund to help Missouri student soldiers
• 3/14/2013: Radio Story - Leaders in Missouri's General Assembly express satisfaction with first half progress
• 3/13/2013: Newspaper Story - State officials beat back allegations of sharing gun owners info as southern judge rules practice must be halted
• 3/13/2013: Radio Story - Sen. Schaefer says he's heard many different stories from DOR on reason for grant from Dept. of Homeland Security
• 3/13/2013: Radio Story - Once, twice, three times a liar- Senate's budget leader slams DOR's credibility
• 3/13/2013: Newspaper Story - Though Medicaid expansion has been defeated in both chambers, Missouri Democrats say the issue is still alive
• 3/13/2013: Newspaper Story - Bill to extend benevolent tax credits for six more years goes to governor's desk
• 3/13/2013: Radio Story - Senate backs bill to increase sales tax to help highway infrastructure
• 3/13/2013: Radio Story - The Mo. House Budget Committee has included increase funding for college-bound veterans in its final version.
• 3/13/2013: Radio Story - Mo. House and Senate Committees have rejected Medicaid expansion.
• 3/12/2013: Radio Story - Senate Democrats filibuster paycheck protection and force an amendment
• 3/12/2013: Radio Story - Gov. Nixon said in press release that proposed tax reform hurts families, elderly and veterans the most
• 3/12/2013: Radio Story - Senate Republicans push for more legislative control of transportation tax dollars
• 3/12/2013: Radio Story - Democrat says abortion bill puts state on slippery slope by giving corporations "a conscience"
• 3/12/2013: Radio Story - Vehicle sales tax measure gets a green light, heads to House floor
• 3/12/2013: Radio Story - Rural judge prohibits revenue office from feeding gun information to the feds
• 3/12/2013: Radio Story - Missouri Senate sends tax overhaul plan that would cut income taxes and raise sales taxes to the House
• 3/12/2013: Radio Story - Missouri Republicans support labor unions deducting from payroll to contribute to political campaigns
• 3/11/2013: Newspaper Story - Missouri politicians think society and the Catholic Church are prepared for a non-European pope
• 3/11/2013: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers consider implications of a new licensing method in which personally identifiable information is scanned.
• 3/11/2013: Radio Story - Mo. Dept. of Rev. director says department is not leaking person documents to federal gov't
• 3/11/2013: Newspaper Story - The Missouri House has given preliminary approval to House Speaker Tim Jones' medical workers' rights legislation.
• 3/11/2013: Radio Story - The Missouri House perfects bill allowing doctors to refuse birth control to patients
• 3/10/2013: NewsBook - News summary for the week of March 4, 2013
• 3/ 7/2013: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate gives preliminary approval to income tax cuts and sales tax increase.
• 3/ 7/2013: Radio Story - Missouri lawmakers working to roll back some state education standards
• 3/ 7/2013: Newspaper Story - Critic of state education standards: "This is academic child abuse."
• 3/ 7/2013: Radio Story - Missouri Senate votes to give home brewers a chance at festival spotlight.
• 3/ 7/2013: Radio Story - Missouri Republicans slam revenue department, say it's feeding feds data on gun owners
• 3/ 7/2013: Newspaper Story - House backs change to term limits allowing 16-year chamber tenures
• 3/ 7/2013: Newspaper Story - Revenue department under fire from GOP for disclosing gun owner information
• 3/ 6/2013: Newspaper Story - Mo. representative pushes for gluten-labeling on all hygiene products
• 3/ 6/2013: Radio Story - Mo. Supreme Court hears case on withheld appropriation funds from the 2012 fiscal budget.
• 3/ 6/2013: Radio Story - House committee re-working bill that would raise utility prices
• 3/ 6/2013: Newspaper Story - The inclusion of a new fund for toxic exposure diseases creates opposition to proposed Second Injury Fund fix.
• 3/ 6/2013: Newspaper Story - Despite bill language, state representative says his legislation would not ban sex-selection abortions.
• 3/ 6/2013: Newspaper Story - Senator sponsors a prescription drug monitoring bill he previously vowed to kill
• 3/ 6/2013: Newspaper Story - Missouri could be 1 of 4 states not affected by national education standards via legislation
• 3/ 6/2013: Radio Story - A new bill has been filed on Missourians privacy in response to a Stoddard county lawsuit
• 3/ 6/2013: Radio Story - Mo. House discusses tax credit dubbed “China hub light”
• 3/ 6/2013: Newspaper Story - Missouri's governor and the state auditor take their legal battle to the Supreme Court.
• 3/ 6/2013: Newspaper Story - A bill to nullify certain federal laws regarding firearms got support from Vietnam veterans Wednesday.
• 3/ 5/2013: Radio Story - Some Republican House Members say a new bond proposal may fare better with legislature than voters
• 3/ 5/2013: Radio Story - Gun control group: 85% of Missourians favor background checks
• 3/ 5/2013: Radio Story - Heroin help group rallied in front of the Capitol building to support the "good Samaritan" bill.
• 3/ 5/2013: Newspaper Story - Republican lawmaker calls for elected head of state agriculture department
• 3/ 5/2013: Radio Story - Senate moves to block big-ticket buys like the governor's plane in the future
• 3/ 5/2013: Radio Story - A Conclave will elect a new Pope in a few days, but first Missourians talk what they want in the new Pope.
• 3/ 4/2013: Radio Story - While some Missouri lawmakers debated Voter ID laws, others debated apes and baboons.
• 3/ 4/2013: Radio Story - Republican lawmakers continue to push voter ID legislation
• 3/ 4/2013: Radio Story - Agreement reached on a proposed bill that would regulate the use of welfare cards.
• 3/ 4/2013: Radio Story - Missouri senators took a stand against the federal government today by passing a gun rights bill out of committee
• 3/ 4/2013: Newspaper Story - Mo. zoos support state regulations on big cats and primates, while private owners bemoan repetitious policies.
• 3/ 3/2013: NewsBook - News summary for the week of February 25, 2013