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March 2000 Stories

• 3/31/2000: News summary for the week of March 27, 2000
• 3/30/2000: Radio Story - Republicans call for a state ban on MTBE, but Democrats say there's not enough ethanol to go around.
• 3/29/2000: Radio Story - Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan is calling for a national ban on the reformulated gasoline additive MTBE.
• 3/28/2000: Radio Story - On Tuesday, the Senate passed the racial profiling bill 23-9.
• 3/28/2000: Radio Story - The Senate Pensions Committee voted on party lines to approve an exemption for tobacco money.
• 3/27/2000: Radio Story - A St Louis Representative will file for re-election even though her term is up in hopes of having standing for a lawsuit to challenge term limits.
• 3/24/2000: News summary for the week of March 20, 2000
• 3/23/2000: Newspaper Story - James Henry Hampton was executed Tuesday after Gov. Mel Carnahan refused to issue a last minute stay requested by death penalty opponents who argued Hampton was incompetent due to a self-imposed brain injury.
• 3/17/2000: News summary for the week of March 13, 2000
• 3/15/2000: Radio Story - The bill would give free needles to IV drug users.
• 3/15/2000: Radio Story - Children rallying against gun violence may be in violation of state lobbying laws because they used tax dollars to pay for a part of their trip to the state capitol.
• 3/15/2000: Newspaper Story - Children demonstrating for gun safety has triggered accusations of illegal lobbying by a top GOP legislator.
• 3/15/2000: Radio Story - The sponsor of the Senate bill to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. constitution says the Senate Judiciary Committee wouldn't have passed her bill. She cancelled the last two hearings of the bill in committee. Now, with help from Senator Maxwell the bill will now be heard in a different Committee.
• 3/14/2000: Radio Story - After debating fourteen different amendments, a bill to reform telemarketing passed with bipartisan support in the Senate.
• 3/14/2000: Radio Story - Representative Barbara Fraser is sponsoring a bill that creates more serious punishments for people who steal pets. Frasers says many people think their pets are lost, when in fact, they're stolen.
• 3/14/2000: Newspaper Story - Rep. Barbara Fraser, D-Saint Louis County, wants to make it more difficult to steal pets in Missouri by imposing penalties of up to seven years of jail.
• 3/14/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon filed suit Tuesday against a Kraft subsidiary, Columbia Foods, because they have allegedly been illegally dispoing of hot dog casings in the Boone County area.
• 3/13/2000: Radio Story - A Senate Committee narrowly approved a measure that would require trigger locks on newly manufactured weapons.
• 3/10/2000: News summary for the week of March 6, 2000
• 3/ 9/2000: Newspaper Story - New funding for spinal cord injury research at MU is under consideration by a Senate committee.
• 3/ 9/2000: Radio Story - Republican Senator Betty Sims says she wants to reform female prisons in Missouri
• 3/ 9/2000: Radio Story - President Pro Tem Ed Quick says the membership upheaval caused by impending term limits makes it the perfect time to cut back membership in the House
• 3/ 9/2000: Radio Story - House republicans are intentionally slowing down the legislative process. These tactics are directly related to Democrats freezing the Republicans out of debate on a tobacco bill.
• 3/ 8/2000: Newspaper Story - For the last couple of weeks, you might have thought Missouri has become a unicameral legislature -- since there's been just one state legislative chamber actually passing bills at a rapid pace.
• 3/ 8/2000: Newspaper Story - The Senate Education Committee heard a bill today that would make it illegal for schools to disclose information to the parents of students who are involved with alcohol and drug violations.
• 3/ 8/2000: Radio Story - Because of the undercount in St. Louis the city missed out on 10 million dollars a year in funding. State officials are working hard to correct that problem this year.
• 3/ 7/2000: Radio Story - The state's leading Bush supporters say the campaign's website greatly increased volunteer recruitment and fundraising.
• 3/ 7/2000: Newspaper Story - Super Tuesday ended with Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore each scoring a resounding victory in Missouri's first permanent presidential primary.
• 3/ 7/2000: Radio Story - The Missouri presidential primaries have a special rule allowing party volunteers to record which party voters were choosing. The Secretary of State, Becky Cook says this is only to please the national party committees.
• 3/ 7/2000: Radio Story - As Republicans attend victory celebrations, Democrats continued work at the Capitol.
• 3/ 7/2000: Radio Story - After months of delay, the governor finally reveals who he supports in the Democratic presidental race on the day of the Missouri primary.
• 3/ 7/2000: Radio Story - Bush and Gore supporters celebrated primary victories quite differently at the state capitol Tuesday night.
• 3/ 7/2000: Radio Story - Bucky Bush says that although his brother's family dominates politics, he and his side of the Bush clan work at the grass roots level
• 3/ 7/2000: Radio Story - Bond says the Bush campaign can now begin to direct its attention from McCain and towards Gore
• 3/ 6/2000: Newspaper Story - Some state lawmakers argue it may be time to go back to the old caucus system.
• 3/ 3/2000: News summary for the week of Feb. 28, 2000
• 3/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - Missouri will hold its first permanent presidential primary Tuesday, an event expected to draw about one million voters to local polling places.
• 3/ 2/2000: Radio Story - The Reform Party may not be dead, at least if candidate filings are any measure.
• 3/ 2/2000: Radio Story - Liability increases from two thousand dollars to twenty thousand dollars for both property damage and personal injury.
• 3/ 2/2000: Radio Story - The Senate passed an amendment to a judicial bill requiring sex offenders and violent felons to provide permanent DNA samples to the state.
• 3/ 2/2000: Newspaper Story - U.S. Sen. John Ashcroft has drawn the ire of Democrats for a speech he gave during the May 1999 commencement ceremony at Bob Jones University.
• 3/ 1/2000: Newspaper Story - Legislation to toughen the state's Open Meetings Law ran into a firestorm of criticism on Wednesday.
• 3/ 1/2000: Radio Story - A bill to allow divorced parent with custody to move without approval from a judge passed the Civil and Administrative Law committee on Wednesday.