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April 2000 Stories

• 4/28/2000: News summary for the week of April 24, 2000
• 4/27/2000: Newspaper Story - Several dozen disabled Missourians came to the State Capitol to thank lawmakers for making portable $650 million in Medicaid money, which means increased flexibility in long-term care decisions.
• 4/26/2000: Radio Story - Legislators say Missouri won't follow Vermont's lead on same sex marriages.
• 4/26/2000: Newspaper Story - A Senate resolution to dub a section of I-70 the "Derrick Thomas Memorial Highway" met with strong criticism Wednesday. One senator said he did not want the state endorsing a man who was allegedly fathered seven illegitimate children.
• 4/26/2000: Radio Story - Sen. Ted House is still trying to change law to allow Francis-Howell school district five years to pay back money.
• 4/26/2000: Newspaper Story - A bill passed out of the House Transportation Committee was given support by a rally held outside the Capitol. The bill would eliminate the law mandating adults must wear helmets while riding a motorcycle.
• 4/26/2000: Newspaper Story - If one state legislator had his way, the University of Missouri system would have been eliminated from receiving any building improvement funds from the state for the upcoming fiscal year.
• 4/26/2000: Radio Story - Motorcycles lined the sidewalks of the Capitol in support of a bill that would repeal Missouri's helmet requirement.
• 4/25/2000: Newspaper Story - The Senate, led by its longest serving member, decided Tuesday to scrap a voter-approved eight-year limit on legislative terms. The vote was 21-12.
• 4/25/2000: Radio Story - St. Louis County Senator John Schneider says he proposed the bill because eight years is not enough time to gain adequate experience.
• 4/25/2000: Newspaper Story - The KTVI-TV cameraman shoved during an encounter with Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan and his bodyguard will file a lawsuit Wednesday or Thursday, his lawyer said.
• 4/25/2000: Radio Story - The out of work employees came to the state capitol for a rally and to try and get support from legislators to try and force AWG officials back to the bargaining table. They found an ally in Independent Governor Candidate, Larry Rice.
• 4/25/2000: Newspaper Story - The Ethics Committee in the House rejected to hear Mike Goodwin's request for investigating Rep. Mays' campaign contributions. Mays is chairman of the Utilities Committee, and received iver 10,000 in donations from utility companies.
• 4/21/2000: News summary for the week of April 17, 2000
• 4/20/2000: Newspaper Story - MDN looks at the role of the players in last week's physical encounter between Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan and journalists.
• 4/20/2000: Newspaper Story - In a 86-68 vote the House rejected a bill intended to eliminate wage discrimination in the work place. It would have made it illegal for employers to create jobs with different titles, involving the same work but pay unequally.
• 4/20/2000: Radio Story - Senate approved a measure increasing Medicaid nursing home reimbursements with tobacco money
• 4/20/2000: Radio Story - The Senate approved a proposal to increase the foster care budget by $1.5 million.
• 4/20/2000: Radio Story - Republicans and Democrats voted against the bill, that would have required equal pay for equal work.
• 4/19/2000: Radio Story - Budget debate in the Senate was interrupted by heated debate about paying for the proposed ballpark in St. Louis.
• 4/19/2000: Radio Story - Auditor Claire McCaskill says Norm Stewart's contract could allow him to walk away and be paid for doing nothing.
• 4/19/2000: Radio Story - The House debated for five hours about the creation of a trust fund for money from the tobacco settlement. But, the bill is not required to establish the fund. The governor can do it regardless.
• 4/19/2000: Radio Story - The House passed the immunization bill, but sent it to the Senate without its original requirement that restaurant owners also provide Hep A and Chicken Pox shots for employees. The bill also says that parents can get a philisophical exemption to keep their children from getting the shots.
• 4/19/2000: Newspaper Story - Norm Stewart's golden parachute caught fire from Missouri's state auditor on Wednesday.
• 4/18/2000: Newspaper Story - Five years after a 14 year-old girl died in an amusement park in Kansas City, legislators are trying to require parks to pass inspections every year.
• 4/18/2000: Radio Story - Irate Mexico Senator Joe Maxwell says he proposed the cut to force the agency to disclose provider bids for consolidated health care.
• 4/18/2000: Newspaper Story - If you work for the University of Missouri and have hearing trouble, you might have to pay a high prize for the same devices others get for free.
• 4/18/2000: Radio Story - Lieutenant Governor candidate Gracia Backer told a story to the House Committee about how she had been pulled over and targetted for "geographic profiling." The committee passed the bill, which now has to be passed by the House and approved by the governor.
• 4/18/2000: Newspaper Story - At a ceremony in the State Capitol today, Gov. Mel Carnahan honored the seven fire fighters who lost their lives in the line of duty during the previous year. State Fire Marshall Bill Karr said this past year was the most tragic he can remember.
• 4/18/2000: Radio Story - Darryl Duwe says he has yet to receive a response for his request of Governor Mel Carnahan's travel records. The records are open under Missouri law.
• 4/18/2000: Newspaper Story - A bodyguard for Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan manhandled a photojournalist for KTVI-TV last week. The videotape and governor each give a different take.
• 4/17/2000: Newspaper Story - A proposal that makes the curremt 8 year term limit 4 years longers was approved Tuesday in the Missouri Senate by voice vote.
• 4/17/2000: Radio Story - The governor doesn't apologize for a member of his security staff shoving a television camara man from a St Louis station.
• 4/14/2000: News summary for the week of April 10, 2000
• 4/13/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri Auditor Claire McCaskill called Thursday for the creation of a central registry of persons disqualified from serving as a care giver to children, the elderly or persons with disabilities.
• 4/13/2000: Newspaper Story - The House Energy and Environment Committee approved Thursday a resolution that urges the federal government to select another route for spent nuclear fuel that is expected to pass through Missouri this summer.
• 4/13/2000: Radio Story - A straight party-line vote passed the Equal Rights Amendment out of a Senate committee.
• 4/12/2000: Radio Story - The House debated whether or not the tobacco trust fund issue should be on the November Ballot.
• 4/12/2000: Radio Story - During the debate on same sex marriages in the Senate, the issue of legislating morality came to the floor.
• 4/12/2000: Newspaper Story - The House approved by voice vote Tuesday a bill that would give people who are paid less for doing the same work the right to sue in state courts before a jury.
• 4/12/2000: Newspaper Story - The plan to toughen the state's Sunshine Law was made a bit tougher by a House committee Wednesday -- which also added a major loophole for government-owned hospitals.
• 4/12/2000: Radio Story - On Wednesday, a House committee heard testimoy for and against a plan that would strip St. Louis city of control of Lambert airport.
• 4/11/2000: Newspaper Story - Rep. Quincy Troupe, D-St. Louis City, met with Sen. Steve Ehlmann, R-St. Charles and agreed to have a cooling off period to decide how to best proceed on Troupe's allegations of racism in St. Charles.
• 4/11/2000: Radio Story - Senate Republican Leader Steve Ehlmann and St. Louis Representative Charles Troupe came to the agreement one week after Troupe called Ehlmann a racist.
• 4/11/2000: Radio Story - Legislation to provide the disabled with adaptive telecommunications devices gets a boost to include low rate loans.
• 4/11/2000: Radio Story - The co-sponsor of the bill to pave the way for the planners of the new Cardinals' stadium says if the bill doesn't reach the House Floor within a week it doesn't stand much of a chance of passing.
• 4/11/2000: Radio Story - The House makes a small compromise that satisfies Democrats and Republicans.
• 4/11/2000: Radio Story - House Speaker Steve Gaw doesn't support a plan currently awaiting a vote in the Senate that would cut the House size by almost 60.
• 4/ 7/2000: Newspaper Story - Mike Williams, a former principal of Stover High School, might lose his teaching license because he was charged with the three felonies after he caused an accident in 1996. One of the victims of the accident, Phaedra Marriot, has been appearing on billboards in a campaign to get the legal Blood Alcohol threshold for drivers lowerd from .10 to .08.
• 4/ 7/2000: News summary for the week of April 3, 2000
• 4/ 7/2000: Radio Story - Black legislatures and the Eastern Missouri ACLU team up to put a stop to racial profiling.
• 4/ 6/2000: Radio Story - Two days after Representative Troupe called Senate Republican Leader Steve Ehlmann and St. Charles County racists on KMOX radio, each chamber heard a remonstrance chastizing Troupe.
• 4/ 6/2000: Newspaper Story - Rep. Quincy Troupe, the black Democrat from St. Louis who ignited a firestorm in the General Assembly when he said a fellow lawmaker is a racist, is the subject of two remonstrances. The measures would express official disapproval of his remarks.
• 4/ 5/2000: Radio Story - The ban would make it illegal to use minors to bust stores that sell tobacco to minors.
• 4/ 5/2000: Newspaper Story - The bill to toughen the state's Open Meetings Law may be heading for a legislative speed bump.
• 4/ 5/2000: Radio Story - The Senate approved a proposal to cut the size of the House from 163 to 105 Representatives.
• 4/ 5/2000: Radio Story - Victims can now get information about parole hearing dates, release dates, and the current place of confinement of their offenders 24 hours a day.
• 4/ 5/2000: Radio Story - Missouri's governor says he won't initiate a ban on the harmful chemical until the federal government takes action.
• 4/ 5/2000: Radio Story - Senator Ted House of St. Charles is the bill's sponsor, he is putting the bill aside to try and deal with the diversity of opinions on the charter school issue.
• 4/ 4/2000: Radio Story - The House spent more than two hours debating a bill aimed at curbing domestic violence. The bill will increase stalking and harrassing to include the electronic media. The bill faces a final House vote before heading to the Senate.
• 4/ 4/2000: Radio Story - Senator Larry Rohrbach says families are paying the high price for phone calls from loved ones in prison.
• 4/ 4/2000: Newspaper Story - A federal judge concluded Microsoft is a monopoly and violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. Missouri has a similar law, but may be unable to file suit against the Seattle-based software manufacturer.
• 4/ 4/2000: Radio Story - Attorney General Jay Nixon did not join nineteen other states in the federal lawsuit and now does not know if he will file a Missouri lawsuit against the technological giant.
• 4/ 4/2000: Radio Story - Two states passed legislation this week mandating safety locks on guns. In Missouri this year the gun lock legislation is basically dead.
• 4/ 4/2000: Newspaper Story - Two bills introduced in the last couple months are not likely to see the light of day, say Missouri legislators. The snail pace which the legislature is proceding at coupled with the safety lock measures' late introduction will likely kill the bill, said lawmakers.
• 4/ 4/2000: Newspaper Story - Even if their committee aproved them and they dealed a big issue like insurance coverage of contraceptives, bills on the House are not going to do their way.
• 4/ 4/2000: Radio Story - Proposed legislation supports consumers who have been sold defective computer systems. Green's bill acts as a lemon law for computer buyers, providing a mandatory 2 year warrantee.
• 4/ 3/2000: Radio Story - The Missouri House of Representatives gave preliminary approval to a bill that would create a code of saftey rules and regulations for amusement park rides.
• 4/ 3/2000: Newspaper Story - The bill to toughen Missouri's Open Meetings Law keeps inching closer to its ultimate goal of becoming law.