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January 1997 Stories

• 1/31/1997: News summary for the week of January 27, 1997.
• 1/30/1997: Newspaper Story - A bi-partisan House majority announced its support for the tax cut on groceries.
• 1/30/1997: Radio Story - Bi-partisan support announced for governor's tax cut on groceries.
• 1/30/1997: Newspaper Story - GOP senators protest EPA air quality rules.
• 1/30/1997: Radio Story - Legislative committee hears bill to give business tax breaks for day care services.
• 1/30/1997: Newspaper Story - Senate confirms three new members to MU's Board of Curators.
• 1/30/1997: Radio Story - A bill is proposed to stress abstinence in public school sexual education classes.
• 1/29/1997: Radio Story - Lawmaker calls for abstinence in sex ed.
• 1/29/1997: Newspaper Story - Senate confirms MU curators.
• 1/29/1997: Radio Story - Massive crackdown on dead-beat dads proposed to a House committee.
• 1/28/1997: Newspaper Story - Ban on lobbyist gifts to legislators proposed to a Senate Committee.
• 1/27/1997: Radio Story - The Senate votes to reject a proposed boost in legislative and judicial pay raises.
• 1/27/1997: Newspaper Story - Catholic Church argues it should be exempt from lawsuits involving sexual abuse by priests.
• 1/24/1997: News summary for the week of January 20, 1997.
• 1/23/1997: Radio Story - Senate delays action on resolution to turn down a pay raise for lawmakers.
• 1/22/1997: Newspaper Story - New prisons tops governor's legislative agenda presented to lawmakers.
• 1/22/1997: Newspaper Story - MU would get the smallest budget boost of any university under the governor's plan.
• 1/22/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's governor calls on legislators to build new prisons and boost education funding, but leaves HMO regulation off his agenda.
• 1/21/1997: Radio Story - Filibuster mentioned to stop a vote on the resolution that rejects pay raises.
• 1/21/1997: Radio Story - For the fourth year, Missouri's legislature considers toughening enforcement of the requirement to have auto insurance.
• 1/20/1997: Radio Story - Senate committee votes down legislative pay hike plan.
• 1/17/1997: News summary for the week of January 13, 1997.
• 1/16/1997: Newspaper Story - Pay hikes for judges and legislators rejected by Missouri's House.
• 1/16/1997: Radio Story - Missouri House members debated for over three hours and finally voted against their own pay raise.
• 1/16/1997: Radio Story - Some black lawmakers say they need a pay raise because they don't have a second job.
• 1/15/1997: Newspaper Story - The House Rules Committee approves a resolution rejecting a proposed pay increase for lawmakers.
• 1/15/1997: Radio Story - The House Rules Committee approves a resolution rejecting their proposed pay increase.
• 1/15/1997: Newspaper Story - Freshman Rep. Chuck Graham's HMO hassled him about getting a new seat cushion for his wheelchair.
• 1/15/1997: Newspaper Story - The legislature's managed care commitee files its legislation with one member warning the HMO party is over.
• 1/15/1997: Radio Story - Lawmaker tells HMOs their party in Missouri is over.
• 1/13/1997: Newspaper Story - Two new representatives and one Senator were sworn in on the first day of the new Legislative session.
• 1/13/1997: Newspaper Story - After 32 years, the governor's inauguration was held inside at the Capitol Rotunda and most didn't mind.
• 1/13/1997: Radio Story - Winter weather moved the Inauguration inside for the first time in 36 years.
• 1/13/1997: Radio Story - The governor who started outdoor inaugurations for Missouri endorses holding 1997's inside.
• 1/13/1997: Radio Story - Carnahan meets with students immediately after his innauguration.
• 1/13/1997: Radio Story - Gov. Carnahan's inaugural address makes educating Missouri's youth his top priority.
• 1/13/1997: Newspaper Story - The governor's inauguration speech and reaction
• 1/13/1997: Newspaper Story - Carnahan meets with students as his first act of his second term as governor.
• 1/10/1997: News summary for the week of January 6, 1997.
• 1/10/1997: Newspaper Story - Legislative pay raises emerging as first major issue for state lawmakers.
• 1/10/1997: Newspaper Story - Governor proposes school-bus safety measure.
• 1/ 8/1997: Radio Story - Deceased House member remebered by colleagues on the opening day of the session.
• 1/ 8/1997: Radio Story - Senate's leader says tax cuts will be one of the top issues for the 1997 legislative session.
• 1/ 8/1997: Radio Story - House opens first day of session with a partisan feud.
• 1/ 8/1997: Radio Story - House Speaker Steve Gaw outlines priorities for the upcoming session on the opening day.
• 1/ 8/1997: Radio Story - Senate leader says pay raise will be an early issue for the Senate.
• 1/ 8/1997: Newspaper Story - 1997 legislative session starts with party spat in the House.
• 1/ 8/1997: Radio Story - Missouri Senate President Pro-Tem speaks about the pay-raise issue in a speech to the Senate.
• 1/ 8/1997: Radio Story - The House rejects a GOP effort to capiture a House leadership slot.
• 1/ 7/1997: Radio Story - 1997 session of Missouri's legislature begins Wednesday.
• 1/ 7/1997: Radio Story - House Republicans consider offering their only black member as candidate for House leadership.
• 1/ 7/1997: Radio Story - Legislative committee proposes using driver's licenses to keep kids in school.