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May 2006 Stories

• 5/14/2006: News summary for the week of May 8, 2006
• 5/14/2006: Newspaper Story - For the second straight year, business-related issues dominated the Missouri legislature.
• 5/13/2006: Newspaper Story - The biggest failed issue of the 2006 Missouri legislative session very well could be efforts to deal with the June 30, 2008 termination of the state's largest welfare program - Medicaid.
• 5/13/2006: Newspaper Story - Rifts among the Senate, House and the governor emerged in the final hours of the legislative session.
• 5/13/2006: Newspaper Story - The pope released his first encyclical in Janurary with a clear line drawn between Church and state
• 5/11/2006: Radio Story - Friday is the last day of Missouri's legislative session and assisted living facilities issues are some of the many being discussed in Missouri's Capitol.
• 5/11/2006: Newspaper Story - The Senate and the House passed tougher sex offender legislation.
• 5/10/2006: Radio Story - Senator John Cauthorn saved the governor's ethanol plan by compromising with the House.
• 5/10/2006: Newspaper Story - The Medicaid provider fraud bill that has passed in the Senate awaits a House vote.
• 5/ 9/2006: Radio Story - The House of Representatives passed a bill requiring the State Board of Education to establish a virtual school program by July 1, 2007.
• 5/ 8/2006: Radio Story - St. Charles Representative Cynthia Davis has proposed a bill that would ban interest groups like Planned Parenthood from sex education classes.
• 5/ 7/2006: News summary for the week of May 1, 2006
• 5/ 4/2006: Newspaper Story - A bill that would cut into the budgets of public higher education institutions has been tied to the MOHELA spending plan.
• 5/ 4/2006: Newspaper Story - The Missouri House passed a bill that would require Missourians to show a photo ID when they go to vote.
• 5/ 4/2006: Radio Story - Friday at 6:00 pm is the deadline for decisions on budget bills.
• 5/ 3/2006: Radio Story - President Bush's new bird flu preparedness plan gives responsibility to local government.
• 5/ 3/2006: Radio Story - Missouri State Auditor Claire McCaskill discovered the Department of Corrections, Probation and Parole are doing an inadequate job of supervising criminals.
• 5/ 3/2006: Newspaper Story - Social Services received a 13 percent increase in the 2007 budget
• 5/ 3/2006: Radio Story - If bird flu were to hit Missouri, the state doesn't have the medical capabilities to keep up with the amount of outrbeaks.
• 5/ 3/2006: Newspaper Story - McCaskill points to lax standards of the Dept. of Corrections
• 5/ 2/2006: Newspaper Story - The Missouri legislature appropriated $899 million for public higher education and a 2.7 percent increase for the University of Missouri System.
• 5/ 2/2006: Newspaper Story - The Senate gave its approval Tuesday to a House bill that oultines how the state should spend proceeds from a sale of college loans.
• 5/ 2/2006: Newspaper Story - Obstacles to the plan remain as the legislative session nears its end
• 5/ 2/2006: Radio Story - Tuesday the Missouri senate debated off and on a bill that would protect homeowners from eminent domain abuse.
• 5/ 2/2006: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate finalized it's Eminent Domain bill.
• 5/ 2/2006: Newspaper Story - The Senate passed an amendment banning eminent domain "solely" for economic development.
• 5/ 2/2006: Radio Story - An additional 215 million dollars will be spent on education in Missouri during the 2007 fiscal year.
• 5/ 1/2006: Radio Story - The new money would pay for general expenses for the Water Patrol
• 5/ 1/2006: Radio Story - Matt Bartle (R-Jackson County) is proposing some of the money from the MOHELA sale be put into a reserve fund for future financial emergencies.
• 5/ 1/2006: Radio Story - Legislation could heavily impact businesses that hire illegal immigrants.