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March 2010 Stories

• 3/30/2010: Newspaper Story - By overwhelming approval, the House passed new abortion regulations
• 3/28/2010: News summary for the week of March 22, 2010
• 3/27/2010: Newspaper Story - Top priorities before Missouri's legislature remain unresolved in the final seven weeks of the session.
• 3/26/2010: Newspaper Story - Missouri lawmakers consider how to control a growing population of wild hogs.
• 3/25/2010: Newspaper Story - With seven weeks left in the legislative session, the House Ethics Committee reports out an ethics bill.
• 3/25/2010: Newspaper Story - The House passed an omnibus judiciary bill covering conceal and carry rights, adoption records, personal privacy and Castle Doctrine
• 3/25/2010: Radio Story - Tim Jones called Jeff Roorda a liar in a response to Roorda's arguments about partisan politics.
• 3/24/2010: Newspaper Story - Missouri Department of Transportation Director Pete Rahn announced his resignation Wednesday.
• 3/24/2010: Newspaper Story - Home-schooled students would be allowed to play high school sports in their home district under a Senate bill heard Wednesday
• 3/24/2010: Radio Story - The company MoDOT director Pete Rahn is joining got huge amounts of money from the state over the past five years.
• 3/24/2010: Radio Story - After more than 5 years as MODOT director, Pete Rahn resigned Wednesday
• 3/24/2010: Newspaper Story - The House balanced the budget for next year by cutting education, social services and agriculture
• 3/24/2010: Newspaper Story - The state Senate spent hours on Wednesday debating a health care bill that would allow Missourians to opt out of the insurance mandate
• 3/24/2010: Radio Story - The revised state budget approved in a House meeting today receives praise and criticisms from House representatives.
• 3/24/2010: Radio Story - Senate debates health care freedom act.
• 3/23/2010: Radio Story - Missouri's senators are working in small group with assigned topics to figure where they could decrease spending
• 3/23/2010: Radio Story - Lt. Governor Peter Kinder announced Tuesday his plan to join a lawsuit challenging the legality of the federal healthcare law
• 3/23/2010: Radio Story - The Senate work day panel on General government discussed mandated furloughs and a consolidated state health system.
• 3/23/2010: Radio Story - 4 Senators spent the day evaluating ways to adjust tax structure
• 3/23/2010: Radio Story - Small groups of senators discussed budget changes related to crime policy in Missouri.
• 3/23/2010: Radio Story - Four senators discussed how to advance Missouri's education system
• 3/23/2010: Newspaper Story - Senate work sessions aim to address budget cuts
• 3/23/2010: Newspaper Story - The Missouri House voted to cut $105 million from the Foundation Formula.
• 3/23/2010: Radio Story - The amendment takes $105 million away from secondary and elementary schools.
• 3/22/2010: Newspaper Story - Less than 24 hours after healthcare legislation passed the U.S. House of Representatives, a state Senate committee advanced a bill to ban abortion coverage.
• 3/22/2010: Radio Story - Less than 24 hours after the U.S. House of Representatives passed its landmark piece of healthcare legislation, a state Senate committee voted to advance a bill to ban abortion coverage.
• 3/22/2010: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate received over 1500 e-mails in its campaign to cut spending in state government.
• 3/22/2010: Newspaper Story - The University of Missouri System won a victory Monday, as the Senate Governmental Organizations Committee cut down a bill that would have consolidated state workers' health plans.
• 3/22/2010: Newspaper Story - House Democrats are preparing a flurry of amendments to the budget as House debate on the budget begins.
• 3/22/2010: Newspaper Story - A bill heard by the House Urban Issues committee would protect against employment, public accommodation and housing discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation.
• 3/22/2010: Radio Story - The House votes to require a doctor tell the local prosecutor when a minor seeks an abortion.
• 3/21/2010: News summary for the week of March 15, 2010
• 3/18/2010: Radio Story - The Senate approved a bill that requires health insurance to cover autism diagnosis and treatment.
• 3/18/2010: Radio Story - In their second day of meetings, the House Budget Committee failed to make significant cuts in the fiscal year 2011 budget.
• 3/18/2010: Newspaper Story - A bill mandating Medicaid coverage for bleeding disorders received no opposition in committee hearing
• 3/17/2010: Newspaper Story - A Senate bill would increase the number of games a Bingo license holder can conduct.
• 3/17/2010: Newspaper Story - Senate committee heard bill that would alter the state's bullying policies
• 3/17/2010: Radio Story - Missouri's House voted to speed up the ban on fake pot.
• 3/17/2010: Newspaper Story - A state sovereignty rally was held in the Capitol Building today as the Missouri Senate placed a resolution that would prevent Missourians from getting punished for not participating in a national health care plan was placed on a Senate calendar.
• 3/17/2010: Radio Story - State sovereignty supporters at a rally say they don't want the government in their health care.
• 3/16/2010: Newspaper Story - The week following the governor's plan for consolidating Missouri's two education departments, the issue has yet to emerge in Missouri's legislature
• 3/16/2010: Radio Story - The Senate will spend all day Tuesday discussing ideas submitted online by Missourians.
• 3/16/2010: Radio Story - House votes to approve a joint resolution that opts out of federal mandated health reform.
• 3/16/2010: Newspaper Story - Bill would would allow doctor to override pharmaceutical entities from blocking prescribed drugs until alternative therapy fails
• 3/16/2010: Radio Story - A bill in the Senate Commerce committee would crack down on health care companies.
• 3/16/2010: Newspaper Story - Local government faces run in with state officials
• 3/15/2010: Newspaper Story - Belly dancers highlight a Census event at the Missouri Capitol on Monday.
• 3/15/2010: Radio Story - Belly dancers shake their stuff on the steps of the State Capitol to promote the Census.
• 3/15/2010: Radio Story - The House shot down an amendment to legalize medical marijuana in the same bill that would ban fake pot.
• 3/15/2010: Radio Story - During a debate on an Internet sales tax, a conservative rural senator was called a
• 3/15/2010: Newspaper Story - The House voted down an amendment that would legalize medical marijuana in a bill banning K2
• 3/15/2010: Newspaper Story - House Budget Chairman Allen Icet, R-Wildwood, said Monday that a new revised revenue estimate for next year will likley not come in time for the House to adjust its budget numbers.
• 3/14/2010: News summary for the week of March 8, 2010
• 3/11/2010: Newspaper Story - The state budget director announced $126 million in cuts to the current budget
• 3/10/2010: Newspaper Story - The focus of the FBI's investigation into potential corruption, former speaker Rod Jetton, testified before a grand jury in KC.
• 3/ 9/2010: Radio Story - A former Missouri House representative testified in front of a Kansas City Grand Jury about former Speaker Rod Jetton
• 3/ 8/2010: Newspaper Story - A new database will help track purchases of a key meth ingredient in Missouri but a police officer in a state already using the database says it's not perfect.
• 3/ 7/2010: News summary for the week of March 1, 2010
• 3/ 4/2010: Newspaper Story - The substitute budget fully funds Foundation Formula, but relies on $300 million Missouri might not get
• 3/ 4/2010: Newspaper Story - About 100 protesters gathered on the Capitol steps Thursday morning to criticize Republican state leaders and wealthy conservative businessman Rex Sinquefield.
• 3/ 4/2010: Radio Story - Republican and Democratic Caucuses held press conferences to express priorities for the second half of session.
• 3/ 4/2010: Newspaper Story - Law enforcement officials and legislators alike fear texting while driving ban will be difficult to enforce.
• 3/ 3/2010: Newspaper Story - Senate first-round approves a bill that would require Missourians to purchase only one license plate for their cars.
• 3/ 3/2010: Radio Story - The state's budget crisis is running into the front end of your automobile.
• 3/ 3/2010: Newspaper Story - The House debated a bill which would make possession of any amount of K-2 a Class C felony.
• 3/ 3/2010: Newspaper Story - Radioactive gas found in Columbia now under investigation by the U.S. Attorneys office
• 3/ 3/2010: Newspaper Story - The Senate Education Committee heard a bill Wednesday to promote science, technology, education and math education, but the state wouldn't be obligated to commit any money to the initiative.
• 3/ 3/2010: Radio Story - In a House meeting Wednesday, the Missouri legislature passed a bill which allows residents to decide for themselves if they want health care coverage.
• 3/ 3/2010: Radio Story - A synthetic marijuana-like substance goes to the House for debate.
• 3/ 3/2010: Radio Story - The Senate Agriculture Committee considers methane as a renewable energy.
• 3/ 2/2010: Radio Story - St. Louis Mayor Slay says the city should have the last word with the St. Louis City Police
• 3/ 2/2010: Radio Story - Gov. Nixon met with the Senate Republican Caucus to discuss more budget cuts
• 3/ 2/2010: Radio Story - Proposed changes to a Senate bill would overhaul the Missouri petition process
• 3/ 2/2010: Radio Story - A house bill allowing for testing of carbon sequestration in Green County leaves many debating liability issues.
• 3/ 2/2010: Radio Story - Republicans and Democrats sparred over the effectiveness of Gov. Nixon's closed-door budget negotiations.
• 3/ 2/2010: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Government coulf fall short by a half billion dollars it needs to balance next year's budget
• 3/ 2/2010: Newspaper Story - The bill would equalize the disparity in funds between students at public and private higher education institutions
• 3/ 2/2010: Newspaper Story - Bill would also prohibit individuals younger than 16 from tanning and require those under the age of 18 to obtain written parental permission
• 3/ 2/2010: Newspaper Story - The mayor of St. Louis supports legislation to localize control of the St. Louis police department while the St. Louis Police Officers' Association opposed.
• 3/ 1/2010: Newspaper Story - A state representative's estranged wife issued a letter Monday criticizing a state statute she said is delaying her divorce.
• 3/ 1/2010: Newspaper Story - UM System representatives opposed a bill that would consolidate all state employee health care plans.
• 3/ 1/2010: Newspaper Story - A group of Senate Democrats countered a committee report on E. coli testing with a harshly worded report of their own.
• 3/ 1/2010: Newspaper Story - St. Louis is one step closer to gaining local control over running the police department.
• 3/ 1/2010: Radio Story - A heated hearing ended with the House Urban Issues Committee passing a bill to give St. Louis control of its police department.
• 3/ 1/2010: Radio Story - The Democratic members of the Senate Commerce Committee released a Minority report regarding the investigation of elevated E. coli levels at the Lake of the Ozarks.