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2009 Children & Family Stories

• 10/27/2009: Radio Story - The first two weeks of flu season show rapid increases than previous years.
• 10/27/2009: Newspaper Story - H1N1 vaccines
• 10/20/2009: Radio Story - Former superintendents around Missouri and a mother spoke both against and for open enrollment.
• 10/20/2009: Newspaper Story - The Joint Committee on Education heard public testimony Tuesday about open enrollment.
• 10/13/2009: Newspaper Story - Missouri charter schools may not be living up to the hype
• 10/13/2009: Radio Story - After making national headlines, bill sponsor trying to seal the deal
• 10/ 5/2009: Radio Story - Missouri will get nearly 20,000 doses of swine flu vaccine this week, but the state Health Department is telling local governments to figure out distribution themselves.
• 9/ 8/2009: Newspaper Story - State officials responded to President Obama's speech to students Tuesday.
• 9/ 2/2009: Radio Story - Though opponents of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the school funding formula say it is unfair, unequal distribution of funds is perfectly constitutional.
• 9/ 1/2009: Radio Story - Swine flu hits Jefferson City.
• 5/14/2009: Newspaper Story - Legislative wrap for Thursday, May 14, 2009
• 4/30/2009: Newspaper Story - A feature on adoption record laws in Missouri
• 4/28/2009: Radio Story - The Missouri House gave final passage to a bill Tuesday that will help imprisoned parents pay child support.
• 4/28/2009: Radio Story - If signed by the governor, a bill giving protection to wrongfully accused fathers paying child support will become a reality.
• 4/21/2009: Newspaper Story - Expansion for children's health care program rejected
• 4/21/2009: Radio Story - Persons who deal drugs in front of children would face mandatory prison time under a measure approved by Missouri's House Tuesday.
• 4/14/2009: Radio Story - The Missouri Supreme Court upheld a law prohibiting convicted sex offenders from having custody or unsupervised visitation rights.
• 4/14/2009: Radio Story - Despite a variety of bills and pleads from families, the Missouri legislature has blocked initiatives to cover autism treatments.
• 4/ 8/2009: Radio Story - The Missouri House adopts an amendment to allow guns on campuses
• 4/ 7/2009: Radio Story - The Missouri Speaker of the House admits to blocking bill requiring insurance companies to cover autism.
• 4/ 2/2009: Radio Story - Missourians may have the chance to vote on whether to expand the state sex offender registry now that a joint resolution has passed the state Senate.
• 4/ 2/2009: Newspaper Story - Joint Resolution to expand state sex offender registry passes Senate
• 4/ 1/2009: Radio Story - The House rejected an amendment that would increase the age of college students whose parents are eligible for child support from 21 to age 22.
• 4/ 1/2009: Radio Story - An amendment proposing child support age changes got rejected in the House.
• 3/31/2009: Radio Story - A senate bill to prohibit texting while driving was passed and is on its way to the House.
• 3/17/2009: Radio Story - A bill giving teacher's the right to use force, including spanking has been introduced to Missouri's Senate. Alex Rozier has more from the State Capitol.
• 3/11/2009: Newspaper Story - House committee passes fiscal year 2010 budget bills
• 3/10/2009: Radio Story - The House Privacy Committee heard a bill Tuesday that will make it illegal to force someone to have a personal identification chip put under their skin.
• 3/ 5/2009: Radio Story - Young girls are now one step closer to cancer prevention after the Senate approved a bill Wednesday that would increase awareness about the HPV virus.
• 3/ 5/2009: Newspaper Story - Seeking to avoid 'Octo-mom' in Mo., measure filed that would limit how many eggs a doctor could implant in a woman.
• 3/ 5/2009: Newspaper Story - By more than a two-thirds majority, Missouri House perfected a bill making it a crime to coerce an abortion.
• 3/ 5/2009: Radio Story - The House passes a bill to require 24-hour waiting period for Missouri women seeking an abortion
• 3/ 4/2009: Radio Story - A personal testimony of rape was told to the Senate Education Committee today.
• 3/ 3/2009: Radio Story - People have the right to pray in school says a Senator who proposed an amendment to Missouri's Constitution.
• 2/24/2009: Radio Story - Emotional parents encouraged Missouri lawmakers Tuesday to require new autism coverage.
• 2/16/2009: Radio Story - First round approval was given to a House bill that would give teachers the power of knowledge.
• 2/11/2009: Radio Story - One Missouri legislator's bill aims to keep sex offenders out of public parks and off the bench of your kid's recreational league team.
• 2/11/2009: Radio Story - Since she wasn't given a concrete reason why, a House Democrat comes up with her own, more controversial explanation as to why she wasn't reappointed to the children and families committee.
• 2/11/2009: Radio Story - In an effort to stop tax dollars from going to drug users, a Southeast Missouri senator sponsored a bill that would require drug testing in order to receive welfare.
• 2/11/2009: Radio Story - Thank God it's Thursday may be the new phrase for Missouri students if legislators approve a bill that would allow Missouri school boards to adopt four-day school weeks.
• 2/10/2009: Radio Story - A new rating system aims to provide better early childhood education for children.
• 2/10/2009: Radio Story - One Missouri Senator is trying to make it mandatory for public schools to tell students' families about STD prevention.
• 2/ 3/2009: Radio Story - A bill letting teachers use force, including spanking, to protect and to discipline students cleared the House Education Committee Tuesday.
• 1/21/2009: Radio Story - 12 circuits in the Children's Division of the Missouri Department of Social Services have yet to meet national accreditation standards.