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Missouri Government News for Week of Nov. 10, 1997

Carnahan heads to Europe.

Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan departed Friday for central Europe with a delegation of Missouri business executives to promote Missouri products.

The delegation will visit Prague, Budapest and Athens.

Prison sites selected.

Gov. Mel Carnahan slected Charleston and Licking as sites for the next two prisons to be built by the state.

Losing out in the selection was Trenton that, along with Charleston and Licking, had been recommended to the governor by the legislature joint committee on corrections.

Charleston and Licking will be the location for two new maximum-security prisons -- each planned for 1,500 inmates.

Missouri's former governor Warren Hearnes and his wife had lobbyied for the Charleston site.

The gambling industry splits over whether to seek legislation to let Missourians lose more money.

Riverboat-gambling companies took conflicting positions before a legislative committee on whether the daily loss limit should be repealed.

Current law restricts the daily gambling loss on a riverboat casino to no more than $500. Ever since adoption of the riverboat-gambling law, segements of the gambling industry has said that limit should be repealed by the legislature.

But in hearings Thursday, a joint legislative committee heard that not every gaming company wants to seek legislative repeal in the 1998 session.

For more details, see:

Gov. Carnahan terms as "innovative" a legislative plan to abolish the St. Louis city school board.

While not specifically endorsing the idea, Gov. Mel Carnahan had some positive words about the proposal to give the St. Louis mayor more power over the city's school system.

Under the plan offered last week by city legislators to the joint committee on school desegregation, the school board's powers would be transferred to a new board appointed by the mayor.

Carnahan told reporters that he thought it might be logical to give the mayor more authority over school matters.

See our newspaper story for more information.

Veterans' affair at the Captiol brings out governor

The annual Veterans Day service will be held at the Missouri Capitol. The Governor as well as other guests will speak. Flags are at attention in the Captiol rotunda. They are about the only thing at attention today, as all government offices are shut down for Veterans Day. Today's service will be a musical affair with the Jefferson City High School Band leading the way.

The MU Tigers become a nationally ranked football team.

Although loosing to the nation's top-ranked college football team, the MU Tigers effort earned the team the 25th slot in AP's rankings of college teams.

It is the first time sine 1983 MU has earned a national ranking.

The ranking was earned from the overtime loss to Nebraska. MU had led the Cornhuskers for most of the game in Columbia until the final seconds. A last-minute Nebraska score threw the game into overtime, that Nebraska won.

In professional football, both St. Louis and Kansas City lost. Without their starting quarterback and tight end, the Chiefs easily were defeated 24-10 by Jacksonville.

Playing in green Bay, the Rams were defeated by 17-7 by the defending Super Bowl champs.