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January 1999 Stories

• 1/29/1999: News summary for the week of Jan. 25, 1999.
• 1/28/1999: Radio Story - Catholics Divided on Death Sentence
• 1/28/1999: Radio Story - By not rejecting a proposal by the state Salary Commission, the Legislature has approved the new pay scale by default.
• 1/28/1999: Newspaper Story - Missouri judges will get a pay increase of 11 percent on average, but lawmakers won't receive a similar salary hike thanks to legislative inaction Thursday.
• 1/28/1999: Newspaper Story - Reactions to the Carnahan's decision of commutetion of the sentence of Darrell Mease.
• 1/27/1999: Radio Story - Two ammendments were introduced to alter Proposition A, an initiative that passed on a November ballot involving animal fighting.
• 1/27/1999: Radio Story - Se. Ted House presented a bill that says Missouri schools should stress abstinence in sex education.
• 1/27/1999: Newspaper Story - The collapse of the 15-year highway plan means state should refund tax money.
• 1/27/1999: Newspaper Story - A bill tht would publish regestered sex offender information on the Internet has been sponsored in the Missouri House.
• 1/26/1999: Radio Story - State Lawmakers consider a bill requiring convicted sex offender list be published on Internet.
• 1/26/1999: Radio Story - Sen. Harry Wiggins presented his bill to the Senate today that woudl give Missouri drivers the option of having specialty license plates that say "Respect Life".
• 1/26/1999: Radio Story - St. Louis representative proposes bill to legalize public breast feeding.
• 1/26/1999: Radio Story - The pope's visit closed some state agencies located in the downtown St. Louis area on Tuesday and Wednesday.
• 1/26/1999: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers are urged to legalize breast feeding in public.
• 1/26/1999: Newspaper Story - A proposal for "Respect Life" speciality license plates has drawn fire abortion rights supporters
• 1/26/1999: Newspaper Story - With legislation proposed Tuesday, Sen. Wayne Goode, D-St. Louis County, said that tow-truck companies have no right ot make a profit out of selling abandoned vehicles.
• 1/25/1999: Newspaper Story - Utility regulation would be turned over to a statewide elected group under a proposal presented Wednesday to the Senate Financial and Governmental Organization Committee.
• 1/25/1999: Newspaper Story - On the April ballot, voters will decide whether cellular phone users will be charged an additional 50 cents to enhance emergency 911 calls.
• 1/25/1999: Newspaper Story - Missouri's House Speaker forms a committee to review the tobacco settlement agreement.
• 1/25/1999: Newspaper Story - Mission Enhancement funds come to MU as new faculty members, life sciences improvement.
• 1/22/1999: News summary for the week of Jan. 18, 1999.
• 1/21/1999: Newspaper Story - A committee came forward today with a proposal to enhance mental health care coverage for those with severe mental illnesses
• 1/21/1999: Radio Story - The circuit court has handed Missouri's Secretary of State power to write the ballot description for the concealed weapons proposal -- throwing out the leigslative description.
• 1/21/1999: Newspaper Story - As Republicans were criticizing Missouri's governor for the size of his proposed tax package, he was getting a wave of support from a usual bastion of the Republican Party -- the business lobby.
• 1/20/1999: Newspaper Story - In his annual state of the state address, Gov. Mel Carnahan proposed the merger of existing labor agencies to form one agency dedicated to handling all issues of unemployment benefits and job training.
• 1/20/1999: Newspaper Story - In his State of the State address, Gov. Carnahan outlined three areas for tax cuts.
• 1/20/1999: Newspaper Story - Education, Health Care, Crime reduction, and Tobacco lead focus; demures on tobacco.
• 1/20/1999: Newspaper Story - Mel Carnahan released his budget recommendations that include a 5.7 percent increase for the UM system.
• 1/20/1999: Radio Story - Sen. Morris Westfall proposed a bill to lower the legal maximum blood alcohol content to .08 percent to a Senate committee today.
• 1/20/1999: Newspaper Story - Columbia legislators comment on Gov. Carnahan's state of the state address.
• 1/19/1999: Radio Story - Governor Mel Carnahan to propose broadbase tax cuts for Missourians.
• 1/19/1999: Newspaper Story - Missouri Right to Life offered a memorial for the unborns in the Capitol rotunda
• 1/19/1999: Newspaper Story - Democratic Senate leaders said they wanted a tax cut that would benefit all tax payers. Republicans said the cuts should be deeper and should also include cuts for businesses.
• 1/19/1999: Radio Story - Sen. Danny Staples proposed a consent bill to the Transportation Committee today that would name a part of I-70 after Mark McGwire.
• 1/19/1999: Newspaper Story - Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs last year as he smashed baseball's old single-season record. But thanks to the Missouri legislature, Big Mac's name may soon be linked to the number 70 for a different reason.
• 1/19/1999: Newspaper Story - Attorney General Jay Nixon filed a lawsuit against the state's largest hog farm charging violations of the state's environmental laws.
• 1/19/1999: Radio Story - Four bills banning partial birth abortions are awaiting committee assingment. The new make-up of the legislature appears to be favorable for abortion foes.
• 1/19/1999: Newspaper Story - The Democrat's font-runner for governor in 2000 found himself under partisan attack Tuesday for announcing extension of a farm-loan program. The conference was Holden's first in the statehouse in more than a year.
• 1/15/1999: News summary for the week of Jan. 11, 1999.
• 1/14/1999: Newspaper Story - From contraception to tax cuts, there is a wide range of issues presented by women legislators at rally Thursday.
• 1/14/1999: Newspaper Story - The dark TV sets and silent radios in state offices offered no clue that the U.S. Senate was trying a president for only the second time in history.
• 1/13/1999: Newspaper Story - Two Republican senators proposed a new plan that would send the money gained from Missouri's settlement with tobacco companies into an escrow account to earn interest.
• 1/13/1999: Radio Story - Republican Senator Betty Sims and Democratic Governor Mel Carnahan agree that tobacco settlement funds should not be refunded to taxpayers.
• 1/13/1999: Radio Story - A legislative committee proposes extending a special fee on tires used for cleaning up illegally dumped tires.
• 1/13/1999: Newspaper Story - Special House committee recommends that a fifty cent fee on tire sales be extended through 2004. The fee funds tire waste clean up throughout the state.
• 1/13/1999: Newspaper Story - Both Rep. Tim Harlan and key Republicans agree that last year's comprehensive plans is dead
• 1/13/1999: Newspaper Story - As a special committee issues it report today on small-business access to health care, both Republicans and Democrats were uncertain about the prospects for compromise.
• 1/12/1999: Newspaper Story - Columbia Senator Ken Jacob was named chairman of the Senate Insurance Committee.
• 1/12/1999: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Millenium Plan will ask drivers to take on responsible driving behaviors.
• 1/12/1999: Newspaper Story - Court Rules Favorably on Carnahan's interpretation of Hancock tax lid.
• 1/12/1999: Newspaper Story - House Democrats backed off a plan to strip Republicans of the right to name their own members to committees.
• 1/11/1999: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers propose a mandatory $1000 fine for speeding truckers.
• 1/ 8/1999: News summary for the week of Jan. 4, 1999.
• 1/ 6/1999: Radio Story - The House speaker urges caution in dealing with tax-cut proposals in the legislative session.
• 1/ 6/1999: Newspaper Story - Partisan bickering over tax cuts dominating the opening day of Missouri's 1999 legislative session.