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September 2000 Stories

• 9/29/2000: News summary for the week of September 25, 2000
• 9/28/2000: Radio Story - Planned Parenthood's efforts to get state funds for family planning came before Missouri's Supreme Court. But the case will also decide if the state can sue the state.
• 9/28/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri's anti-abortion laws will restrict access to the federally-approved abortion pill RU 486 according to key players in the state's abortion-rights debate.
• 9/28/2000: Radio Story - Planned Parenthood's efforts to get state funds for family planning came before Missouri's Supreme Court. But you could say its become a legal conflict of interest.
• 9/28/2000: Radio Story - Roy Temple, Head of the Missouri Democratic Party, says that Senator Ashcroft's silence about comments made by a Republican spokesman goes against his Missouri values platform.
• 9/28/2000: Newspaper Story - Sen. John Ashcroft for the third straight day has not commented on the now infamous "cheap hooker" comment.
• 9/28/2000: Radio Story - Station Casino still under review after giving a St. Louis lawyer big bucks.
• 9/28/2000: Newspaper Story - In a case one Planned Parenthood executive called "bizarre, bizarre," the Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments in a debate that pits the state government against itself and state Planned Parenthood chapters.
• 9/27/2000: Newspaper Story - GOP candidate for governor Jim Talent said he would not seek Daryl Duwe's termination after Duwe compared State Auditor Claire McCaskill to "a cheap hooker."
• 9/27/2000: Radio Story - The GOP candidate for governor says he will not call for the resignation of his party's spokesman for comparing a state official to a "hooker."
• 9/26/2000: Newspaper Story - After the state's GOP spokesman compared State Auditor Claire McCaskill to a "cheap hooker," the Missouri Democratic Party's top official called on Republican leaders Tuesday to sack the flak.
• 9/26/2000: Radio Story - The Missouri GOP spokesman compares a statewide official to a "cheap hooker."
• 9/26/2000: Newspaper Story - Change versus continuity was the major theme in the first debate by the leading candidates for Missouri governor.
• 9/25/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri joins nine other states to split $1.9 billion, by fulfilling federal requirements to spend money allotted to their children's insurance programs.
• 9/25/2000: Radio Story - Due to Western wildfires and drought, the habitat of migrant humming birds have been destroyed, forcing the birds to possibly fly Eastward into Missouri.
• 9/25/2000: Newspaper Story - The state contends that an appropriations law prohibitting state money from going to organizations that promote abortions means Planned Parenthood can no longer receive state family-planning funding.
• 9/25/2000: Radio Story - There are nearly 30 "alternative" party candidates running for statewide office in Missouri.
• 9/22/2000: News summary for the week of September 18, 2000
• 9/22/2000: Newspaper Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan, visiting the state's center of higher education Thursday, unveiled an initiative designed to make affording college easier.
• 9/21/2000: Newspaper Story - Four third-party candidates are in the race for the state treasuer's office--a position that has placed several state politicians into the big leagues.
• 9/21/2000: Newspaper Story - The campaign designed to cut outside funding for political candidates is getting a bundle for its own campaign -- and much of it is coming from outside of Missouri.
• 9/21/2000: Newspaper Story - Monarch butterflies, some of whom migrate more than 2,000 miles to winter in Mexico, are moving through Missouri by the thousands this fall.
• 9/21/2000: Radio Story - The controversy is over a John Ashcroft ad showing a State Troopers Association letter thanking the Senator for a 1999 anti-meth bill.
• 9/21/2000: Newspaper Story - The campaign managers for two people seeking to be Missouri's next state treasurer both describe themselves as idealists who are fiercely committed to their candidates.
• 9/21/2000: Radio Story - Missouri will have a record corn yield this year.
• 9/20/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri once again has been selected as a state through which high level nuclear waste will be shipped.
• 9/20/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri's program for educationally at-risk middle schools received its first federal grant Wednesday.
• 9/20/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri Farm Bureau will host Cuban Ambassador Fernando Remirez next week in the Bootheel.
• 9/20/2000: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Democratic party has called on Sen. John Ashcroft to return money Bob Jones University gave him after a speech at the campus last year.
• 9/19/2000: Radio Story - The state is spending $8 million of taxpayer money to improve aesthetics in the Capitol building.
• 9/18/2000: Newspaper Story - Third party secretary of state candidates struggle for publicity.
• 9/15/2000: News summary for the week of September 11, 2000
• 9/14/2000: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Senate debated but declined to vote Thursday on a resolution urging the Gaming Commission to force seven Station Casinos executives to testify about bonuses paid to the company's lawyer.
• 9/14/2000: Newspaper Story - A profile of Mitch Moore, the Libertarian candidate for attorney general.
• 9/14/2000: Newspaper Story - PACs are giving increasing amounts to both sides in major political races according to a study released by a campaign finance advoacy group.
• 9/14/2000: Newspaper Story - Profile of Kevin Edwards, the campaign manager for Republican attorney general candidate Sam Jones.
• 9/13/2000: Newspaper Story - Fond farwells rather than overrides dominated the attention of the Missouri legislature's veto session.
• 9/13/2000: Radio Story - Under a Kansas City court ruling, underage drunk drivers can not be charged with drunk driving as easily as adults.
• 9/13/2000: Radio Story - Missouri Voters for Fair Elections campaigned for the plan in Jefferson City.
• 9/13/2000: Radio Story - Proposition B would give public money to candidates who say no to private contributions.
• 9/13/2000: Radio Story - After avoiding Missouri this summer, Missouri is back on the federal map for nuclear waste shipments.
• 9/13/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri minors can face less punishment then adults for drinking under-the-influence of alcohol.
• 9/13/2000: Radio Story - Republican Floor Leader Steve Ehmann took his last stand on the Missouri Senate Floor. But, Ehlmann didn't leave quietly.
• 9/13/2000: Newspaper Story - Democratic chief Roy Temple filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Senate Ethics committee saying Ashcroft could benefit financially from a bill he is sponsoring.
• 9/13/2000: Radio Story - The Senate GOP leader is calling on the Senate to take a stand on a gambling company's refusal to obey Gamming Commission subeonas.
• 9/12/2000: Newspaper Story - GOP gubernatorial candidate Jim Talent shifted his bid's focus from highways to education.
• 9/12/2000: Newspaper Story - St. Louis Cardinals great Stan Musial became the first sports star to be inducted in the Hall of Famous Missourians Monday.
• 9/11/2000: Radio Story - Bob Holden won the straw poll conducted at Lasalle Middle School by 13 percent. But, Republican Darrel Duwe does not put much credence in the results.
• 9/11/2000: Radio Story - A group of Republican representatives and law enforcement officers joined Cass County Prosecutor Chris Koster in attacking Governor Mel Carnahan's weak anti-meth laws.
• 9/11/2000: Newspaper Story - While candidates for governor debate the future of bond financing for road improvements, the first bond-financed repair project is up and running in Saline County.
• 9/11/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Senate race is among the most watched in the nation because the two main candidates are established names with large war chests. Nonetheless, the two small party candidates say they can win.
• 9/11/2000: Newspaper Story - The debate over methamphetamine in Missouri's Senate race conitnued on the steps of the Capitol Monday.
• 9/11/2000: Newspaper Story - The Green Party's candidate for Missouri's attorney general will not be allowed to run because she is not a lawyer, a Cole County circuit court judge has ruled.
• 9/11/2000: Newspaper Story - A debate Thursday night was less contested than it was congenial, with all four candidates offering compliments and refraining from any personal attacks. The debate focused not so much on campaign issues but rather on the question of whether the office of lieutenant governor should be reformed -- and whether it should exist at all.
• 9/ 9/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri's gubernatorial candidates continued to focus on the state's highway system at a forum Friday. All major-party candidates for statewide offices showed up at the forum with one notable exception -- Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan, who is running for the U.S. Senate.
• 9/ 8/2000: News summary for the week of September 4, 2000
• 9/ 7/2000: Radio Story - The battle is over who is going to pay the lawyers. One of the state's most outspoken Republican senators says the Attorney Generaal made an unconstitutional contract with a private lawyer.
• 9/ 7/2000: Radio Story - The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments from five separate interest groups hoping to intervene in the state's $6.7 billion tobacco settlement. Representing individuals, hospital owners and even the city of St. Louis, lawyers argued they could intervene and proceed with their individual court cases against the tobacco companies.
• 9/ 7/2000: Radio Story - Lack of tough DWI laws causes the state to lose $14 million in federal construction money.
• 9/ 7/2000: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Republican Party wants the Federal Election Commission to investigate Carnahan's ties to a casino fund raiser.
• 9/ 7/2000: Newspaper Story - Attorneys for various interest groups seeking their own compensation from big tobacco asked the Missouri Supreme Court yesterday to prevent the state from dropping its lawsuit against tobacco companies.
• 9/ 7/2000: Newspaper Story - Less than 15 people attended the first attorney general debate, with not even the incumbent, Democratic candidate Jay Nixon, attending the event.
• 9/ 6/2000: Radio Story - Highway Patrol vehicles have been checked to ensure they do not use Firestone's recalled tires...but other tires deemed hazardous by the government may be on the patrol vehicles.
• 9/ 6/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri state employees may be in danger from Firestone tires on state vehicles.
• 9/ 6/2000: Radio Story - The MissouriTransportation and Conservation departments say they are not be affected by the Firestone recall.
• 9/ 6/2000: Newspaper Story - The losing candidate for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor is keeping alive the Ethics Commission complaint against her winning opponent.
• 9/ 5/2000: Newspaper Story - The Missouri State Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday in a case that has prevented the state from receiving any of its estimated $6.7 billion settlement with big tobacco companies.
• 9/ 5/2000: Newspaper Story - The campaign managers for the two candidates for secretary of state both are in their 20s.
• 9/ 1/2000: News summary for the week of August 28, 2000
• 9/ 1/2000: Newspaper Story - Though mostly below the surface, religion has assumed a major role in Missouri's Senate race.