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2005 Politics Stories

• 12/13/2005: Radio Story - Missouri voter lists will no longer include voters who have died or moved
• 12/12/2005: Radio Story - The bill is in response to a Kansas groups protests at military funerals.
• 12/12/2005: Radio Story - Missouri's House Democrats announced their plans to improve the state's economy.
• 12/ 5/2005: Newspaper Story - If approved, the Unborn Child Pain Prevention Act would mandate that physicians inform women seeking abortions at or after 20 weeks of the fetus' capacity to feel pain, and then to offer to administer anesthesia to a fetus before an abortion.
• 12/ 5/2005: Radio Story - Republican Senator Chuck Gross sponsored a bill that would require physicians performing abortions to offer pain relief to unborn fetuses.
• 12/ 1/2005: Radio Story - The recommendations go against the recent U.S. Supreme Court Decision.
• 12/ 1/2005: Radio Story - Former vice-chairman Allen Icet will take over.
• 11/30/2005: Radio Story - Tobacco settlements in Missouri add up to more than 200 million dollars, but not one cent is being spent on youth tobacco prevention.
• 11/30/2005: Radio Story - If the proposed tax passed part of the money would be spent on smoking prevention and cessation program.
• 11/29/2005: Newspaper Story - Sen. Jason Crowell, R-Cape Girardeau announced today that he will pre-file four bills to make stronger abortion related laws.
• 11/29/2005: Radio Story - Missouri Democrats say they wanted the seat filled in the already scheduled February special elections.
• 11/16/2005: Radio Story - Budget Chairman Brad Lager says the State's 2007 fiscal budget will fall short nearly $200 million.
• 11/16/2005: Radio Story - The Democrats focused on Missouri's response to natural diasters.
• 11/16/2005: Newspaper Story - A travelling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial will visit the Capitol's south lawn next week.
• 11/14/2005: Radio Story - Attorney General Jay Nixon signed a deal with Western Union to help prevent wire fraud. As part of the deal consumers will gain more recourse in the event they suspect they are victimes of fraud
• 11/14/2005: Radio Story - Committee Chairperson Liz Hagar-Mace says the Medicaid cuts could drive the poor into homelessness.
• 11/10/2005: Radio Story - Nixon's campaign treasurer confirmed the plans today.
• 11/10/2005: Newspaper Story - Attorney General Jay Nixon plans to run for governor in 2008.
• 11/ 9/2005: Radio Story - The Medicaid Reform Commission looked for ways to encourage recepients to live healthier
• 11/ 9/2005: Newspaper Story - Recent upset election lead Missouri democrats to claim future victories.
• 11/ 9/2005: Radio Story - Democrat Jane Bogetto beat favored Republican Moira Byrd in an election upset. Democrats say the win is partly due to Bogetto's stance on Medicaid and education issues.
• 11/ 3/2005: Radio Story - Some members believe the definition of blighted property needs to change, but others disagree.
• 11/ 2/2005: Radio Story - Twenty Seven House Democrats from across the state wrote a letter to the agency which gives final approval to the major Medicaid cuts.
• 11/ 1/2005: Radio Story - Executive Director of the East West Gateway Council for Government says the definition of "blight" is too broad and should be redefined to focus help where it is needed most.
• 11/ 1/2005: Radio Story - Members of the Missouri General Assembly are limited to a maximum of two, four year terms.
• 10/31/2005: Radio Story - State Senator Jon Dolan is in contract talks to become the next executive director of the Missouri Health Care Association.
• 10/27/2005: Radio Story - The Medicaid Reform Commission met to discuss how new technology and screening recipients for risk behaviors can save the program money.
• 10/26/2005: Radio Story - Members of the commission discussed dozens of Medicaid reform ideas during their first work meeting. Commission member Margaret Donnelly wants the commission to make decisions on reform ideas that will be recommended to the governor next year.
• 10/24/2005: Radio Story - MOSERS board votes to remove investments with terrorist links.
• 10/17/2005: Newspaper Story - If approved by Missouri voters, the cigarette tax increase and stem-cell research protection measures would be immune to legislative tampering.
• 10/13/2005: Radio Story - The Task Force heard testimony from farmers about the appraisal and condemnation process.
• 10/12/2005: Radio Story - An earthquake bigger than the one that devastated Pakistan could shake Missouri. Yet State leaders are in no hurry to fill more than a half dozen vacancies on the earthquake preparation commission.
• 10/12/2005: Radio Story - More than half a dozen positions remain open on the Missouri earthquake commission. The Governer's office says they are in no hurry to fill the vacancies.
• 10/11/2005: Radio Story - A coalition supporting stem cell research wants to guarantee Missouri will not have any restrictions beside Federal law, but Senator Matt Bartle says Missouri should retain the right to make its own stem cell laws.
• 10/ 5/2005: Newspaper Story - Opposition to a proposed 80-cent cigarette tax increase is emerging from some groups that support a higher tobacco tax, but oppose the way the revenue would be allocated under the proposal.
• 10/ 4/2005: Radio Story - Voters could see an amendment on the ballot in 2006.
• 10/ 3/2005: Radio Story - The governor is required to appoint Democrats and Republicans to some Boards.
• 10/ 3/2005: Radio Story - State Auditor Claire McCaskill says competitve bidding for non-emergency transportation and medical supplies will save the state money.
• 9/30/2005: Radio Story - Republicans say the move is neccessary to save time, but Democrats say it silences the voice of poor, rural Missourians.
• 9/29/2005: Radio Story - State Treasurer Sarah Steelman says family planning centers may not be able to participate in low interest loan program.
• 9/28/2005: Radio Story - U.S. House republicans selected Missouri's Roy Blunt to be the new majority leader after Tom DeLay's indictment.
• 9/24/2005: Newspaper Story - The governor's reorganization task force has voted to strip the Securities Division from the Secretary of State's office.
• 9/22/2005: Radio Story - Governor Blunt is touring seven cities to ceremonially sign the abortion bill he signed last week.
• 9/20/2005: Radio Story - State Senate Judiciary Committee vice chairman Robert Mayer says since the state does not own the Boonville bridge on the Katy trail, the Attorney General should not sue.
• 9/19/2005: Radio Story - A judge ruled Attorney General Jay Nixon can proceed with a lawsuit against the Department of Natural Resources in a dispute over the old Boonville Bridge.
• 9/16/2005: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Secretary of State voiced opposition to a reorganization plan that would strip her office of securities regulation.
• 9/12/2005: Radio Story - The House Children Committee approved an abortion bill that would make it harder for minors to get abortions across state lines.
• 9/ 8/2005: Radio Story - Guardsmen responded to the crisis in Louisiana with a shortage of vehicles. Many trucks they do have are decades-old.
• 9/ 7/2005: Radio Story - Missouri guardsmen use local stores to buy supplies they need right away.
• 9/ 7/2005: Radio Story - Hot meals and air-conditioning are near-reality for Missouri guardsmen stationed near New Orleans.
• 9/ 7/2005: Radio Story - The Missouri House Judiciary Committee moved to repeal legislation that banned the publishing of certain information about public officials.
• 9/ 6/2005: Radio Story - Democratic St. Louis Senators Pat Daugherty and Maida Coleman say three child abuse laws passed in the spring need to be reworded.
• 9/ 6/2005: Radio Story - Debate over two key abortion bills is set to begin tomorrow, and democrats are planning to make their views known.
• 9/ 6/2005: Radio Story - The Missouri House of Representatives met for five minutes today to introduce two key abortion bills that are set to be discussed during the special session.
• 9/ 2/2005: Radio Story - Guardsmen left this morning on State Emergency Duty -- to help provide security near New Orleans.
• 9/ 2/2005: Radio Story - On the way to New Orleans the Guard must stop several times for fuel . . . and stomach high prices.
• 5/14/2005: Newspaper Story - The special session called by the governor to discuss unpassed anti-abortion issue illustrated a split in the Republican majority--fiscal versus social conservatives.
• 5/12/2005: Newspaper Story - God's Lobbyist: Larry Weber
• 5/12/2005: Newspaper Story - The Unacknowledged Legislators: Five of the Most Powerful People in Missouri Politics You Didn't Vote For (or Against)
• 5/12/2005: Newspaper Story - The Ad Man: John Thompson
• 5/12/2005: Newspaper Story - The Boss: Dan Mehan
• 5/12/2005: Newspaper Story - The Old Hand: Ken McClure
• 5/12/2005: Newspaper Story - The Maestro: John Hancock
• 5/12/2005: Radio Story - A Democratic filibuster shelved an abortion bill.
• 5/ 5/2005: Newspaper Story - Completing its work one day early, the legislature approved a $19.2 billion budget that cuts more than 90,000 people from Medicaid while increasing funding to the foundation formula by $113 million
• 5/ 5/2005: Radio Story - Legislators approved a budget that cuts 90,000 Missourians for the medicaid program.
• 5/ 4/2005: Radio Story - Floor debates began today over the 2006 fiscal year budget. Lawmakers spent the early afternoon discussing the elementary and secondary education budget
• 5/ 4/2005: Newspaper Story - House won't fix school funding for seven years
• 5/ 3/2005: Radio Story - Jackson County Senator Matt Bartle says the Missouri Supreme Court has placed the safety of the state's school children in extreme jeopardy.
• 4/28/2005: Radio Story - The legislature passed a bill eliminating the penalties for having vehicle registration tabs stolen.
• 4/28/2005: Radio Story - With a division between rural and urban representatives, a House commitee defeated proposed changes to the foundation formula.
• 4/28/2005: Radio Story - The plan to revamp how Missouri schools get state money has hit a snag in the House
• 4/27/2005: Radio Story - New bill means state can choose to fund or not to fund wheelchairs.
• 4/27/2005: Newspaper Story - Medicaid Protestors Chain Themselves to House Doors
• 4/27/2005: Newspaper Story - Nascar driver Carl Edwards was the special guest of Sen. Chuck Graham, D-Columbia, on Wednesday
• 4/27/2005: Radio Story - The House General Laws Committee passed Senate Bill 500. The bill would pass some of the cost of First Steps to both parents and insurance companies.
• 4/27/2005: Radio Story - Democratic Senators say that the middle class is gettinga raw deal from administration and Republican policies.
• 4/26/2005: Radio Story - The Missouri Supreme Court reverses a St. Louis school counselor's misconduct charges.
• 4/26/2005: Radio Story - Governor Blunt signed the bill cutting healthcare to nearly 100,000 Missourians.
• 4/26/2005: Radio Story - The tax is for managed care providers to generate more money for the state Medicaid program.
• 4/26/2005: Radio Story - Republican Governor Blunt ruled the execution should take place, despite the findings of a parole board.
• 4/25/2005: Radio Story - The Senate has until Friday, May 6th to pass the budget, which is a constitutional requirement.
• 4/25/2005: Radio Story - The Missouri Lottery will cut their contribution to public schools by 15 million dollars.
• 4/20/2005: Newspaper Story - List of interested parties is yet to be confirmed
• 4/20/2005: Radio Story - A filibuster on Senator John Loudon's "Open Contracting Act" by Democrat Victor Callahan in response to the removal of governmental power to regulate workers' benefits and training.
• 4/20/2005: Radio Story - The Senate Agriculture Committee is considering legislation that would legalize the use of physical therapy on dogs and cats.
• 4/19/2005: Newspaper Story - A proposed constitutional amendment to limit increases to the state budget was approved by the House Budget Committee.
• 4/19/2005: Radio Story - Shortly after the election of Pope Benedict XVI, legislators express their excitement.
• 4/18/2005: Radio Story - Bill Alter was sworn into the senate today, before the Secretary of State's office recounted the votes.
• 4/18/2005: Radio Story - Claire McCaskill says she needs more access into tax data to be sure what tax programs are working for Missouri citizens.
• 4/14/2005: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate has passed a new formula to fund public schools.
• 4/13/2005: Radio Story - With department plans to increase asphalt production, rising prices of oil and gasoline make the costs of production to be higher than they have ever been.
• 4/13/2005: Radio Story - Legislators voted down an amendment that would have cut their own state-provided healthcare benefits by twenty percent. The amendment failed by only three votes.
• 4/13/2005: Newspaper Story - An amendment to reduce elected officials health insurance failed in the House today.
• 4/13/2005: Radio Story - The house was split almost evenly on the subject.
• 4/13/2005: Radio Story - One University of Missouri professor says the bullfrog is a pest. Kansas City Representative Susan Phillips says she doesn't care about the arguments against her bill.
• 4/ 6/2005: Radio Story - It was the first day of debate on the Senate floor concerning stem cell research. The bill would make it illegal to clone a human being.
• 4/ 6/2005: Radio Story - The bill to cut Medicaid would also eliminate the program in 2008.
• 4/ 5/2005: Radio Story - The bill owuld allow the replacement of up to two sets of two license plate tabs when stolen.
• 4/ 5/2005: Radio Story - Gas prices are closing in on record highs everywhere.
• 4/ 4/2005: Radio Story - Democratic Senator Harry Kennedy's bill would create a state board and uniform practices.
• 4/ 4/2005: Radio Story - Director of Transportation Pete Rahn sat as a desk in the middle of Highway 63 in order to make the point that work zones are dangerous and drivers should have a greater appreciation of their work.
• 3/31/2005: Radio Story - The struggle over Terri Schiavo's death has lead two Missouri legislators to propose laws giving Missouri power to award custody of patients, or even take over patient care.
• 3/31/2005: Newspaper Story - In response to the death of Terri Schiavo, Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O'Fallon filed a bill today that would make it illegal to remove feeding tubes from patients.
• 3/31/2005: Radio Story - Missouri lawmakers propose bills trying to prevent cases like Terri Schiavo's.
• 3/31/2005: Radio Story - The Republicans proposed a budget that increases K-12 spending while cutting money to social services
• 3/30/2005: Radio Story - Wheeler says the bill would force pharmacists to fill prescriptions like the morning after pill regardless of their personal religous beliefs.
• 3/30/2005: Newspaper Story - House hearing on Medicaid stretches into the night
• 3/30/2005: Radio Story - A key part of Governor Matt Blunt's plan to slash Medicaid went before a House Committee.
• 3/29/2005: Radio Story - Protestors filled the Capitol to save a Medicaid program allowing disabled Missourians to live independently.
• 3/28/2005: Radio Story - Walk into you local porn shop... and, soon, that step alone could cost you five bucks.
• 3/16/2005: Newspaper Story - Two business bills sent to the governor
• 3/16/2005: Radio Story - Lawmkers achieved the two goals of Gov. Matt Blunt's pro-business agenda, passing bills that would limit compensation for injured workers and medical malpractice claims in state courts.
• 3/16/2005: Newspaper Story - Gibbons says Medicaid must go
• 3/15/2005: Radio Story - The bill to cut medicaid was placed on layaway until the Senate session later in the day.
• 3/15/2005: Newspaper Story - The Senate voted along party lines to add an amendment that would end the state Medicaid program in 2008.
• 3/14/2005: Radio Story - The Senate debated a plan to tighten income requirements for Medicaid.
• 3/14/2005: Radio Story - The Republicans haven't caved, and the Democrats haven't given up; the future of medicaid is still up in the air.
• 3/14/2005: Radio Story - Democrat Pat Dougherty will filibuster the proposed medicaid cuts, which are on the schedule for the Senate.
• 3/13/2005: Radio Story - Democratic Senator Pat Dougherty from St. Louis City spent the afternoon preparing his attacks on the bill to cut medicaid.
• 3/11/2005: Newspaper Story - A bill that would tighten eligibility to workers' compensation, which some opponents are calling a "hidden tax" is set for a conference committee.
• 3/10/2005: Radio Story - A House subcommittee has modified Blunt's cuts to Medicaid.
• 3/ 8/2005: Newspaper Story - Gov. Matt Blunt's hand-picked commission to increase efficiency met for the first time Tuesday morning.
• 3/ 8/2005: Newspaper Story - The Senate-House joint committee passed its version of a new school foundation formula
• 3/ 8/2005: Newspaper Story - The Missouri House ruled Tuesday that it is illegal to transport a minor out of state with the intention of receiving an abortion. Other changes to current abortion laws in Missouri were made.
• 3/ 7/2005: Radio Story - Republican Matt Bartle from Jackson County supports state legislation to tax sexually oriented businesses.
• 3/ 7/2005: Newspaper Story - Gov. Matt Blunt announced his choice for director of the Department of Social Services.
• 3/ 7/2005: Newspaper Story - The Department assessed its situation in the context of Matt Blunt's proposed cuts to Mental Health
• 3/ 3/2005: Radio Story - The committee will hear testimony on three bills that could affect health care for Missourians.
• 3/ 3/2005: Radio Story - Cuts to Medicaid are on their way through the Senate, heading to committee next week.
• 3/ 3/2005: Newspaper Story - Hoouse Democrats pushed for a change in fee office contracts to competitive bidding.
• 3/ 3/2005: Radio Story - Senators and representatives are forming a conference committee to form a mutually agreeable workers' compensation bill
• 3/ 2/2005: Newspaper Story - After an exhaustive legislative battle, the House passed a bill to re-name Southwest Missouri State University as Missouri State University.
• 3/ 2/2005: Newspaper Story - The Zionist women's organiztion came to the capitol Wednesday hoping to halt a bill that would ban human cloning.
• 3/ 2/2005: Newspaper Story - A joint Senate-House committee expected to vote on a proposal to fix the foundation formula delayed the vote by at least a week
• 3/ 2/2005: Newspaper Story - A joint Senate-House committee expected to vote on a proposed fix to the formula used to distribute state money to local schools delayed the vote until next week.
• 3/ 2/2005: Radio Story - Livingston County farmers rallied against a bill that would eliminate local authority over health ordinances.
• 3/ 1/2005: Newspaper Story - Senate Democrats introduced a block of legislation today to protect consumers in the wake of recent identity theft with ChoicePoint Inc. Other bills include informing consumers about radio frequency identification tags and the creation of an Office of the Inspector General.
• 3/ 1/2005: Radio Story - The Missouri House passed a bill to change names of four Missouri universities.
• 3/ 1/2005: Newspaper Story - A joint Senate-House committee expected to vote on a fix to the formula used to distribute state money delayed the vote until next week.
• 2/28/2005: Radio Story - The House Rules Committee voted to send a Senate workers' compensation reform bill to the House floor.
• 2/28/2005: Radio Story - Director of the Department of Mental Health said that there will not be a drastic push for closure of Bellefontaine.
• 2/24/2005: Newspaper Story - A spokesperson for Gov. Blunt announced today plans to defer money from the UM system and five other state universities to pay for income tax filings. The money will be deferred for three months and paid back fully to the schools at the end of the fiscal year.
• 2/24/2005: Newspaper Story - A House committee passed along a partisan line a bill that would limit the workers' compensation program.
• 2/24/2005: Radio Story - Governor Blunt's office announced a plan to delay two-thirds of university funding until June.
• 2/23/2005: Radio Story - The House committee on Workforce Development and Workplace Safety heard testimony over the Seante-originated bill that would make major revisions to Missouri's workers' compensation law.
• 2/23/2005: Radio Story - Senator calls for tax on adult entertainment stores.
• 2/23/2005: Radio Story - Bill sponsor Rep. Mark Wright withdrew his bill ending college tenure, and will be re-submitting it to the House clerk sometime next week. The new bill will only call for the revising of current tenure laws, and not the elimination of the laws.
• 2/23/2005: Newspaper Story - Bartlett will replace Bill Foster as the employer representative.
• 2/23/2005: A proposed Senate bill would prohibit insurance companies from requiring personal tax information on applications for coverage.
• 2/23/2005: Radio Story - It's been three years since St. Louis local law enforcement have been granted a raise. Now in a proposed bill, they are asking for $1350 more.
• 2/23/2005: Radio Story - The House considers the workers' comp bill that the Senate already approved.
• 2/22/2005: Newspaper Story - Following a contentious House Higher Education Committee hearing on a bill to rename Southwest Missouri State University as Missouri State University, the committee voted 10-1 to send the measure to the House floor.
• 2/22/2005: Radio Story - Sen. Maida Coleman is sponsoring a bill to allow immigrant students in Missouri to pay in-state tuition.
• 2/22/2005: Newspaper Story - Sen. Bond announced today his proposal for the "Education Begins at Home Act." The bill will provide $400 million over three years to states to expand parent education and family services.
• 2/17/2005: Newspaper Story - After several days of debate, the House overwhelmingly gave final approval to a bill that would restrict lawsuit venue while capping punitive damages.
• 2/17/2005: Radio Story - Three senators are proposing a constitutional amendment to prevent school districts from suing the state.
• 2/17/2005: Newspaper Story - Three Republican senators proposed a constitutional amendment to prohibit the courts from considering cases involving state appropriations.
• 2/16/2005: Radio Story - The bill requires travel clubs to register with the Attorney General's office.
• 2/16/2005: Radio Story - Blunt nominated a Public Safety Director and a Deputy to oversee Homeland Security.
• 2/16/2005: Radio Story - The bill that would limit liability awards in Missouri received first round approval in the House... meaning the House can no longer make changes.
• 2/16/2005: Radio Story - Grass Roots Organizing, Paraquad, Inc. and Missouri Budget Prodject teamed up to voice complaints about Gov. Blunt's proposed funding cuts.
• 2/16/2005: Radio Story - A bill passed the Senate changing Southwest Missouri State University to Missouri State University despite heavy opposition by University of Missouri officials and especially Senator Chuck Graham.
• 2/15/2005: Newspaper Story - With the exception of Sen. Victor Callahan, D-Jackson, all the Democrats voted against the bill due to concerns that it unfairly targets workers.
• 2/15/2005: Newspaper Story - The House spent much of Tuesday debating a bill that would have a profound impact on the civil liability system. Among the changes, the bill would cap punative damages and restrict venue.
• 2/15/2005: Radio Story - The Senate Transportation Committee heard support of a bill to allow police to ticket motorists solely for not wearing their seat belts.
• 2/14/2005: Radio Story - The debate to change Southwest Missouri State's name lasted hours into the night.
• 2/14/2005: Newspaper Story - Sen. Maida Coleman (D-St. Louis City) has introduced a bill that would lower the age requirments for senators and representatives in Missouri.
• 2/14/2005: Newspaper Story - By a vote of 7-2 in favor of the legislation, the cloning issue now moves to the senate floor for further debate.
• 2/14/2005: Radio Story - A proposed constitutional amendment would lower the age requirement to run for the state legislature.
• 2/ 9/2005: Radio Story - Rep. Mark Wright introduced a bill that could potentially elliminate tenure for college professors at public universities.
• 2/ 9/2005: Radio Story - First Step supporters gather at the governor's office to deliver petitions.
• 2/ 9/2005: Newspaper Story - Confederate flag one step closer to its return
• 2/ 9/2005: Radio Story - First Steps supporters argue that the program is the only program that addresses children's developmental problems before the child grows past the window of opportunity.
• 2/ 9/2005: Radio Story - In a House committee hearing, well over 100 parents and their children gathered to protest Gov. Blunt's proposal to eliminate the more than $17 million First Steps program from state spending.
• 2/ 8/2005: Newspaper Story - After discussions involving a handful of senators, a bill that would tighten requirements for eligibility in the state worker's compensation program will likely see floor debate on Wednesday and Thursday.
• 2/ 8/2005: Radio Story - The bill's supporters say they hope it will prevent fatal accidents resulting from negligent owners.
• 2/ 8/2005: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate Transportation Committee heard a bill to allow I-70 to become a toll road. Voters will make the final decision if it passes.
• 2/ 8/2005: Newspaper Story - Gov. Blunt is calling for all state agencies to provide analyses of how homeland security funds are being used. This is in an effort to determine all uses of homeland security funds and make the program more efficient.
• 2/ 8/2005: Radio Story - A bill to make helmets voluntary for riders over 21 passed the Missouri Senate Transportation Committee. The new law could go into effect as early as this August.
• 2/ 7/2005: Newspaper Story - Harris cited remodeling of the governor's office as well as fee offices as place where needless money is being spent
• 2/ 7/2005: Radio Story - Minority Leader Jeff Harris says Blunt's renovations will cost taxpayers more than one hundred thousand dollars.
• 2/ 4/2005: Newspaper Story - Wal-Mart employees will be some of the hardest hit by Gov. Blunt's proposed Medicaid cuts. That's because they can't afford the health coverage Wal-Mart offers its employees.
• 2/ 2/2005: Radio Story - St. Louis County Senator Tim Green proposed a bill to eliminate state health insurance for all state legislators today.
• 2/ 2/2005: Radio Story - A state senator says he wants the Missouri State Parks Advisory Board to decide whether to raise the Confederate flag at two Civil War cemetaries.
• 2/ 2/2005: Radio Story - In his address, MoDOT Director Steve Rahn outlined the Smoother, Safer, Sooner plan.
• 2/ 2/2005: Radio Story - The NAACP held a meeting Wednesday at the Capitol and several members were upset with Blunt's cuts on healthcare.
• 2/ 2/2005: Newspaper Story - A bill proposed by Sen. Kevin Engler would give a park board the power to return confederate flags to Missouri memorials.
• 2/ 2/2005: Newspaper Story - A bill proposed by Sen. Kevin Engler would give a park board the power to return confederate flags to Missouri memorials.
• 2/ 2/2005: Radio Story - In a 90 to 66, almost exclusively partisan vote, the Missouri House voted to pass its own version of the workers' compensation bill.
• 2/ 2/2005: Radio Story - In a 90 to 66, almost exclusively partisan vote, the Missouri House voted to pass its own version of the workers' compensation bill, reducing the number of injuries covered under the law.
• 2/ 1/2005: Newspaper Story - The Senate voted to remove its $50 cap on gifts senators can receive from lobbyists. The Senate also voted to continue its ban on lap-tops from the chamber.
• 2/ 1/2005: Radio Story - Hisorically Lt. Governors have handed over the day to day responsibilities to the President Pro Tem.
• 2/ 1/2005: Radio Story - Senators reject a rule change allowing laptops into the Senate Chamber.
• 2/ 1/2005: Radio Story - State Senators removed rule limiting gifts from lobbyists.
• 2/ 1/2005: Radio Story - A senate committee heard two separate, but similar, versions of a bill to provide tuition grants to the surviving children of any member of the military who was killed in the line of duty and who was, at the time a Missouri citizen.
• 1/31/2005: Radio Story - Senator Chuck Graham requested that Governor Blunt release records of cabinet nominations and committee members.
• 1/31/2005: Newspaper Story - Two bills proposed by Sen. John Loudon (R-St. Louis County) seek to create a holiday in President Ronald Reagan's honor and name a yet to be constructed bridge over the Mississippi River after the former commander-in-chief.
• 1/31/2005: Radio Story - The first official Missouri state amphibian may be a bullfrog that has a tendency to eat its own kind.
• 1/31/2005: Radio Story - Missouri could join seven other states in a ban on human cloning.
• 1/31/2005: Radio Story - Republicans are supporting a bill to name a bridge over the Mississippi after the late President Reagan
• 1/27/2005: Newspaper Story - Governor Blunt's proposal to cut Medicaid spending could largely impact Missouri's hospitals.
• 1/26/2005: Radio Story - A senate bill to reform workers' compensation is one step closer to passing despite resistance from Democrats.
• 1/26/2005: Newspaper Story - Gov. Matt Blunt delivered the governor's annual address to the state Legislature Tuesday night and proposed $1.1 billion in budget cuts.
• 1/26/2005: Newspaper Story - Gov. Matt Blunt delivered the governor's annual addres to the state Legislature Tuesday night and proposed $1.1 billion in budget cuts.
• 1/26/2005: Radio Story - Legislative goals and the upcoming budget are on the agenda for tonight's State of the State address.
• 1/26/2005: Radio Story - House Democrats are upset that three weeks into the legislative session only two of their 58 bills have been assigned to committees.
• 1/26/2005: Newspaper Story - In hopes to control methamphetamine production in Missouri, a set of bills aim to allow only licensed pharmacists the ability to sell cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine
• 1/25/2005: Radio Story - State Revenue officials say a recent discovery by Missouri State Auditor Claire McCaskill is only stirring up controversy over a program meant to create effiencies and budget savings.
• 1/25/2005: Newspaper Story - The bill will come against opposition from Columbia Senator Chuck Graham.
• 1/25/2005: Newspaper Story - The Senate introduced a bill to create lower medical malpractice insurance premiums for physicians.
• 1/25/2005: Newspaper Story - Doyle Childers, a moderate Republican, was selected to head the Department of Natural Resources on Tuesday.
• 1/24/2005: Newspaper Story - Warren Erdman and Stephen Bradford will lead the State Government Review Commission.
• 1/24/2005: Radio Story - Members of the senate committee listened to law enforcement officers talk about the need to reduce the availability of pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in the illegal drug methamphetamine.
• 1/24/2005: Radio Story - Matt Blunt says he will appoint a 20-person commission to perform one of the largest reviews of state government in 30 years.
• 1/24/2005: Newspaper Story - The Bullfrog bill would, if passed, would list the amphibian with other offical state animals, such as the mule, the paddlefish, and the channel catfish.
• 1/19/2005: Radio Story - Disabled Missourians injured on the job spoke out today in opposition of workers' compensation regulation.
• 1/19/2005: Newspaper Story - At a press conference this morning, Govenor Matt Blunt announced his support for legislation allowing any voter to cast an absentee ballot.
• 1/11/2005: Newspaper Story - At his first press conference as Missouri's governor, Matt Blunt shot down measures supporting collective bargaining by state workers and signed several cost-cutting measures.
• 1/10/2005: Newspaper Story - Matt Blunt was sworn in Monday as Missouri's new governor and pledged to answer what he called a mandate for change by improving education, trimming government programs and bridging the divide between the two parties.
• 1/18/2005: Radio Story - Southwest Missouri State proposed to change its name to Missouri State University, meeting opposition from those who say the new name is historically significant to the University of Missouri.