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January 2001 Stories

• 1/31/2001: Radio Story - A resolution heard in a House committee would ask voters to authorize toll roads.
• 1/31/2001: Radio Story - St. Louis Senator Pat Dougherty, who is the first white to be elected in the 4th district in 40 years, says he will represent diverse interests.
• 1/31/2001: Radio Story - St. Louis city roads are the state's only county roads that are not repaired by MoDOT.
• 1/31/2001: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate rejected a House resolution that would have prevented a pay raise for lawmakers.
• 1/31/2001: Radio Story - By an overwhelming vote, Missouri's House has rejected a pay plan for legislators, statewide elected officials and judges.
• 1/31/2001: Radio Story - Missourians may lose their professional licenses for not paying back their student loans.
• 1/31/2001: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Senate has to allow a pay plan for lawmakers and other government officials to take effect.
• 1/31/2001: Radio Story - A bill proposed in the Missouri Senate would allow parents to choose which school their children attend within each district.
• 1/31/2001: Radio Story - Higher education faculty members could find themselves on a university governing board.
• 1/30/2001: Radio Story - Voting made easy...that's the idea behind several House bills aimed at making voting more convenient. One bill proposes a voting system that would allow voters to cast their ballots before election day.
• 1/30/2001: Newspaper Story - Despite a call for bipartisanship, Missouri's new Democratic governor found one of his key proposals declared "DOA" by a top GOP leader.
• 1/30/2001: Radio Story - Missouri Gov. Bob Holden says education and a balanced budget are his priorities, but Republicans raise concerns about several of his other plans.
• 1/30/2001: Newspaper Story - While calling on legislators to act on the state's growing transportation problems, Missouri's new governor came under legislative attack Tuesday for not offering a single proposal upon which legislators could act.
• 1/30/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri Gov. Bob Holden proposed using a portion of the state's tobacco settlement to fund life sciences research at large public institutions such as MU over 25 years.
• 1/30/2001: Newspaper Story - As he had throughout his campaign, Missouri Gov. Bob Holden made education the focus of his State of the State address Tuesday.
• 1/29/2001: Radio Story - Secretary of State Matt Blunt releases a bipartisan election commission report. Recommendations include extending Election Day to eleven days, allowing early voting.
• 1/29/2001: Radio Story - Representatives gave several new ideas to alleviate Missouri's teacher shortage and improve school funding.
• 1/29/2001: Radio Story - Secretary of State Matt Blunt released a report from a bipartisan election reform commission. Eliminating so-called "butterfly punch ballots" was among the recommendations.
• 1/29/2001: Radio Story - The State auditor, Claire McCaskill, released a report saying that local government and school districts are losing money, because of failure to rely on competitive bidding for bond sales.
• 1/29/2001: Radio Story - Secretary of State Matt Blunt asks the legislature for five million dollars in matching funds for local election boards.
• 1/26/2001: News summary for the week of January 22, 2001
• 1/25/2001: Radio Story - The day after an election giving them control of the Senate, Republican leaders got together with Democrats to approve a resolution that makes their payraises subject to appropriation.
• 1/25/2001: Radio Story - The Public Service Commission approved a 29-percent increase for Laclede Gas Company.
• 1/25/2001: Newspaper Story - Key state senators say an effort to boost taxes for highway construction is all but dead as a result of the GOP capture of the Missouri Senate.
• 1/24/2001: Radio Story - After Wednesday's special election results, Republicans will hold an 18-16 majority in the Missouri Senate.
• 1/24/2001: Radio Story - The Public Service Commission will decide Thursday on a proposed gas rate hike for eastern Missouri.
• 1/24/2001: Newspaper Story - For the second day in a row, members of the Senate stalled a resolution that would reject a 5.5 percent increase in legislative salaries for each of the next two years.
• 1/24/2001: Newspaper Story - Republicans took control of the Missouri Senate for the first time in more than 50 years after special elections held Wednesday.
• 1/24/2001: Radio Story - Lobbyists told a Senate committee that charter schools should not receive state funding without accreditation.
• 1/12/2001: Radio Story - On Monday GOP House members presented their plan to lower drug costs.
• 1/12/2001: Radio Story - For those who qualify, senior citizens could receive greater rebates on prescription drugs. Republican representatives say the rebates would not cost the state or the taxpayers anything.
• 1/23/2000: Radio Story - The governor's call for an investigation into natural gas price increases gets a lukewarm response from the state attorney general.
• 1/23/2001: Newspaper Story - In an angry and bitter Senate debate Tuesday, Missouri state senators delayed action on a resolution that would have rejected a raise for themselves.
• 1/23/2001: Newspaper Story - In three distant areas of Missouri, a handful of voters will cast votes that could mark an historic era for MIssouri.
• 1/23/2001: Radio Story - The Senate Democratic Floor Leader has threatened to take action to remove PSC members if they pass a rate increase tomorrow without taking a public vote.
• 1/23/2001: Radio Story - Several Senators used a filibuster to prevent a vote on a bill that would reject the Missouri Citizens' Salary Commission's recommended pay raises.
• 1/23/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri's attorney general called for legislators to toughen the restrictions on telemarketers that were passed last year by the legislature.
• 1/23/2001: Newspaper Story - A Senate bill to pay for a funding shortage will cost Missourians $650 million.
• 1/23/2001: Newspaper Story - An effort to oust members of the utility regulating commission is launched after approval of a 44% natural gas price increase.
• 1/22/2001: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Senate Rules Committee has passed to the full Senate a resolution to reject a 5.5% package of pay hikes for statewide elected officials and legisaltors.
• 1/22/2001: Radio Story - The Senate Rules Committee rejected a proposed pay increase for state officials.
• 1/19/2001: News summary for the week of January 15, 2001
• 1/18/2001: Radio Story - Rep. Mike Reid wants to ban introduction of wild elk in Missouri.
• 1/18/2001: Radio Story - The Democrats and Republicans voted together on the House rules after the leadership of the parties worked to find a compromise on the rules.
• 1/18/2001: Newspaper Story - Rep. Mike Reid has proposed a 10-year moratorium on the importation of wild elks, voicing concern that the animals may carry a dangerous disease.
• 1/18/2001: Newspaper Story - A political campaign in northern Missouri that could decide control of the state's Senate has racked up a price tag of more than $600,000.
• 1/12/2001: News summary for the week of January 8, 2001
• 1/11/2001: Radio Story - Tax proposal for transportation would increase sales tax by one cent on the dollar and fuel tax by two cents per gallon.
• 1/10/2001: Radio Story - Democratic representative Juanita Walton has proposed a bill that would divide Missouri's eleven electoral votes by congressional district.
• 1/ 9/2001: Radio Story - Interns learned their own rules, the rules of the legislature and got a tour of the Capitol during orientation Tuesday.
• 1/ 8/2001: Radio Story - As the only Republican state officer, Secretary of State Matt Blunt says he believes that Holden's administration will still work together.
• 1/ 5/2001: News summary for the week of January 1, 2001
• 1/ 4/2001: Radio Story - Governor Roger Wilson combined humor and integrity when addressing the Missouri legislature yesterday.