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January 2000 Stories

• 1/31/2000: Newspaper Story - Proposed bills by republicans Jon Dolan and Steve Ehlmann would make scalping legal in Missouri. Scalepers don't think that bill would pass.
• 1/31/2000: Radio Story - A House Subcommittee is reviewing a bill that would change the legal age of organ donors to sixteen years. The bill would also allow signed organ donor cards to be sufficient documentation to legally remove organs.
• 1/31/2000: Radio Story - Children who were adopted would be able to access their original birth certificate after the age of 18 under a bill passed by the House Children and Families Committee.
• 1/28/2000: News summary for the week of January 24, 2000
• 1/27/2000: Radio Story - In a surprising move, Democratic Senator Harold Caskey has proposed lowering the legal blood alcohol limit from .10 to .08 after killing similiar legislation last year.
• 1/27/2000: Newspaper Story - A Missouri lawmaker wants to make sex with animals illegal.
• 1/27/2000: Radio Story - A state representative is hoping to make the state capitol alcohol-free. If the bill passes, alcohol would no longer be allowed in the state capitol starting in 2002.
• 1/26/2000: Radio Story - The Missouri House gives first round approval to legislation setting up the tobacco trust fund with little opposition from Republicans.
• 1/26/2000: Radio Story - Several members of the House Children and Families Committee are questioning a proposal by St. Charles Rep. Charles Gross to ban daycare on riverboat casinos.
• 1/26/2000: Newspaper Story - Although the ground wasn't covered in a blanket of snow, students still woke up to the happy sounds of 'no school today.'
• 1/25/2000: Radio Story - New Senate Bill proposes to lower the speed limit for truck drivers in Missouri. Truckers could be limited to 65mph on rural areas and 55mph in urban areas.
• 1/25/2000: Radio Story - Democratic lawmakers want to use bonds to finance road repairs on Missouri's ailing highway system.
• 1/25/2000: Radio Story - Democratic lawmakers present a plan to finance road repairs in the state.
• 1/25/2000: Radio Story - One legislator is trying to bring legal ticket scalping back to Missouri. Jon Dolan of Lake St. Louis filed a bill on Tuesday that allows ticket holders to sell their seats at above face-value.
• 1/25/2000: Radio Story - Two House bills would create a "no call" list of people who didn't want calls from telemarketers.
• 1/25/2000: Radio Story - House Republican leader Delbert Scott is disapointed with a "a quick fix" solution to the state's highway problems.
• 1/25/2000: Newspaper Story - The highway patrol superintendent came out in support of a proposal to lower the speed limits for trucks. Legislators felt this would do little to alleviate accidents such as the one that occured near Kansas City on Sunday.
• 1/25/2000: Radio Story - State Treasurer and gubornatorial hopeful expresses his ideas about the transportation plans of the Democrats.
• 1/25/2000: Newspaper Story - Democrats in Missouri's General Assembly proposed Tuesday that the state issue $2 billion in bonds to finance road repairs through 2007. The proposal would cap bond issues for transportation to $2 billion, thus avoiding a GOP plan to spend $10 billion over ten years.
• 1/24/2000: Newspaper Story - A Senate committee discussed Monday whether to close off public information contained in the state's auto regristration and driver's license records.
• 1/24/2000: Radio Story - Republican Senators John Russell and Larry Rohrbach want to limit the Department of Revenue's ability to release personal information from motor vehicle records.
• 1/24/2000: Radio Story - Lieutenant Governor Candidate Joe Maxwell says that he is willing to give back funds raised before the Supreme Court's decision.
• 1/24/2000: Newspaper Story - The U.S. Supreme Court upholds Missouri's campaign finance limits on individual contributions.
• 1/21/2000: News summary for the week of January 17, 2000
• 1/20/2000: Radio Story - Both Senate and House Committees moved quickly this week to figure out what ought to happen to tobacco settlement money worth a projected 6.7 billion dollars.
• 1/20/2000: Newspaper Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan opposes the transportation of nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain via Missouri's highways and rail lines.
• 1/20/2000: Newspaper Story - The U.S. Dept. of Energy is accepting comments on a proposal that would include transporting thousands of tons of nuclear waste through Missouri.
• 1/20/2000: Radio Story - One lawmaker wants to increase the fine for speeding in a construction zone.
• 1/20/2000: Radio Story - The bill allows resort bars and restaurants on the Lake of the Ozarks to sell alcohol until 3 a.m.
• 1/19/2000: Radio Story - Republican candidate for governor Jim Talent gave a speech he called the "Republican State of the State" today in the capitol.
• 1/19/2000: Radio Story - The Governor's State of the State Address draws sharp criticism from Republicans who say the governor lacks leadership.
• 1/19/2000: Radio Story - While top-GOP candidate for governor, Jim Talent gave a speech one after Gov. Carnahan's own speech, Democrat governor hopefull, Bob Holden preferred to stay out of the limelight.
• 1/19/2000: Radio Story - The legislature's leading sponsor of anti-drunken driving legislation criticizes the governor's proposal.
• 1/19/2000: Newspaper Story - The final State of the State address by Gov. Mel Carnahan ended with a serenade from children.
• 1/18/2000: Radio Story - The House Republicans are proposing to do away with the current tranportation commission. The Democrats do not see the problem.
• 1/18/2000: Radio Story - Democratic and Republican senators disagree on how Missouri's tobacco settlement money ought to be used.
• 1/18/2000: Newspaper Story - The Missouri State Appeal Court for the Eastern District held Monday that the state is the only one with a legitimate claim to its lawsuit against the tobacco companies. The City of St. Louis and other organizations and individuals can sue on their own, the court said.
• 1/18/2000: Radio Story - The Consumer Protection committee is currently debating a bill restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail, commonly known as "spam mail."
• 1/18/2000: Newspaper Story - Republicans, citing poor conditions of Missouri highways, introduced a constitutional ammendment seeking to replace the state highway with commission with a Secretatary of Transportation who would be accountable to the governor. Democrats felt that this initiative would only politicize the transportation department and characterized it as an election year ploy.
• 1/18/2000: Newspaper Story - About 100,000 Missourians stand to receive a check from Missouri's Attorney General in return for money scammed from consumers by a California-based direct marketing company several years ago.
• 1/18/2000: Radio Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan will look back on his work as governor in his State of the State Address on Wednesday.
• 1/17/2000: Newspaper Story - Next January one of Columbia's own legislators could have the best seat in the House.
• 1/17/2000: Radio Story - One of the top-ranked candidates for Missouri's House Speaker has dropped out of the race.
• 1/17/2000: Newspaper Story - Although the election isn't until January, the Speaker of the House race has already dropped one of its possible contendors.
• 1/14/2000: News summary for the week of January 10, 2000
• 1/13/2000: Radio Story - Democratic Senators voice concern over a law lowering legal blood alcohol content limit from .10 to .08.
• 1/13/2000: Newspaper Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan endorsed proposal to lower standard for drunk driving from .10 to .08 today, but Senate Democrats have not been quick to jump on board.
• 1/12/2000: Radio Story - House Republicans have proposed a bill to divide the Kansas City School District.
• 1/12/2000: Newspaper Story - Jim Murphy, R-St. Louis County, and a couple other legislators are calling Columbia "Infanticide City" in the wake of last year's Partial Birth Abortion Debate.
• 1/13/2000: Radio Story - State legislators are hoping to imporve school violence laws this session.
• 1/13/2000: Radio Story - Two mid-Missouri schools have already had to close their doors for one day, and the flu season is just beginning.
• 1/12/2000: Radio Story - The hiring of Senate Majority Leader Ronnie DePasco's nephew by the state ethics commission raises questions of whether or not DePasco was involved.
• 1/12/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Ethics Commission hires the nephew of a legislative leader.
• 1/12/2000: Radio Story - A bill sponsored by Senator John Russell would give schools $80 for each student that completes driver's ed.
• 1/12/2000: Radio Story - Two joint resolutions would ask Missouri voters to roll back the requirement on passage of a school bond to a simple majority.
• 1/11/2000: Radio Story - A lawmaker has proposed a bill to refund long distance charges for people trying to reach state officials if they instead reach their voice mail.
• 1/11/2000: Radio Story - A bill proposed by Senator Harry Wiggins would eliminate state sales tax on purchases of coffins and caskets.