Sen. Steve Ehlmann, R-St. Charles, submitted the proposal Wednesday but withdrew it today after several senators claimed the resolution was out of order.

The three are the pet dogs of Kevin Edwards, the campaign manager for the GOP candidate for Missouri's attorney general. And that job has taken Edwards away from home, and from his pets, for days at a time.

His beliefs about drug laws are actually what Mitch Moore said brought him to the Libertarian party. It was at a NORML meeting that a leading Libertarian approached Moore, who has spent most of his life in Columbia, about politics.

Roy Temple sent the Senate's Ethics Committee a sworn statement Monday saying Ashcroft's co-sponsorship of a telecommunications bill is a conflict of interest and would clear the way for AT&T and MediaOne to merge. Ashcroft owns substantial stock in each company.

Current law allows such stops for adults -- such as at sobriety check highway stops. But the Kansas City Appeals Court found that a law passed a few years ago that was designed to impose stronger limits on drinking by minors did not allow traffic stops without probable cause.

The waste will be taken to one of two possible sites in the West, using either I-70 or Union Pacific railways.

Kevin Kamps at the Nuclear Information Resource Service says either option poses a threat to public safety.

Voters who gathered to push Prop B, a ballot issue to give public money to candidates that refuse private contributions, said this is just another example of money getting in the way of government.

Before a small group of educators in the Fulton High School library on Monday, Talent proposed giving schools state money to set up a pair of voluntary programs patterned after operations in Fulton and Blue Springs.

A bronze bust of Musial was unveiled at the ceremony where longtime friends and former players honored the baseball Hall of Famer. The bust will join 22 others in the state Capitol.

Other past honorees include Harry S Truman, Walt Disney and Walter Cronkite. Musial is the only sports star and one of two living honorees--Cronkite is the other.

The report concludes that without additional funds, the department will be forced to limit its efforts to maintenance of existing roads.

The Senate's Transportation Committee quickly labeled as impossible the idea that the legislature would approve any kind of tax increase to generate $1.5 billion per year in additional highway funds.

The project got underway on Monday on a portion of I-70 in Saline County. While the future of funding for road repairs is uncertain in the next legislative session, the Transportation Department has already allocated $250 million to projects to be completed in the next year.

But, as one political scientist points out, candidates have to be careful not to alienate anyone by being too religious.

Judge Thomas Brown also ordered Frank Eller Jr., who had been disqualified from a state representative race for filling out candidacy forms incorrectly, back on the ballot.

Nonetheless, two small party candidates say they can win.

In a rebuttal of a rebuttal, Missouri Republican lawmakers and law enforcement attacked Gov. Mel Carnahan's funding of the fight against meth, saying the governor repeatedly requested less money than law enforcement wanted.

But U.S. Rep. Jim Talent, the Republican candidate, and Democratic state Treasurer Bob Holden sparred about the specifics of such action at a forum Friday.

All candidates for statewide office showed up at the forum with one notable exception -- Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan, who is running for the U.S. Senate.