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January 2005 Stories

• 1/31/2005: Radio Story - Republican Carl Bearden says he hopes the new ownership of the paper will be more fair and balanced in their coverage of issues. However, Democratic Senator Pat Dougherty says the Post-Dispatch has previously done a good job covering controversial issues.
• 1/31/2005: Radio Story - A new bill aims to stop teachers from spanking children.
• 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 - Republican Representative Carl Bearden says he hopes the new ownership will work on a more fair and balanced newspaper. However, Democrats, like Senator Pat Dougherty argue the Post-Dispatch has done a good job of addressing controversial issues.
• 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: Newspaper Story - Rep. Bill Deeken has proposed a bill to put an alcohol tax increase in the hands of Missouri voters.
• 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
• 1/28/2005: News summary for the week of January 24, 2005
• 1/27/2005: Newspaper Story - The annual Conference on Transportation celebrated Amendment 3 and the new director.
• 1/27/2005: Newspaper Story - Despite a campaign not to reduce Medicaid eligibility, Blunt called for a budget that would cut the benefits for 110,000 Missourians.
• 1/27/2005: Newspaper Story - Governor Blunt's proposal to cut Medicaid spending could largely impact Missouri's hospitals.
• 1/27/2005: Radio Story - Blunt budget plan would cut 89,000 from Medicaid rolls.
• 1/26/2005: Radio Story - A new state law requires all incarcerated felons to submit a DNA sample. Less than a month into testing and already two matches have been made to unsolved crimes.
• 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 - The proposed budget freezes higher education but makes a large increase in elementary and secondary education.
• 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
• 1/26/2005: Newspaper Story - A Republican bill that would narrow the definition of work-related injury was voted through to the Senate Wednesday.
• 1/25/2005: Radio Story - Sierra Club has praise, if faint, for new DNR chief
• 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.
• 1/25/2005: Radio Story - State Democrats filed a bill aimed at lowering medical malpractice premiums.
• 1/25/2005: Radio Story - Senate transportation chair John Dolan says he expects the project to start sooner rather than later. Republicans say they'll consider other names too.
• 1/24/2004: Radio Story - Governor Matt Blunt's executive order is effective immediately. Blunt's order bans all video games, both violent and non-violent from Missouri state prisons.
• 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 - House Democrats are proposing a bill that will make it illegal for minors to buy sexually explicit or violent video games. Illinois is considering a similar proposal.
• 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 - At a press conference Monday, Gov. Matt Blunt banned all video games from Missouri prisons.
• 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.
• 1/21/2005: News summary for the week of January 17, 2005
• 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 - A Senate committee considering a reduction of benefits in Missouri's workers' compensation program heard emotional testimony Wednesday from workers who felt abandoned by a system one Republican senator called "broken."
• 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.
• 1/18/2005: 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.
• 1/14/2005: News summary for the week of January 10, 2005
• 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.
• 1/7/2005: News summary for the week of January 3, 2005