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November 2001 Stories

• 11/30/2001: News summary for the week of November 26, 2001
• 11/30/2001: Radio Story - The Governor's Mansion is celebrating their 130th year.
• 11/29/2001: Radio Story - The vice president of Missouri's restaurant association, Pat Bergaur, said restaurants that depend on tourists, conventions and holiday partys have been affected by the slow economy.
• 11/29/2001: Radio Story - The Executive Vice President of the Missouri Association of Realtors said that while home sales have declined in the past year, he is not concerned about MIssouri's housing market.
• 11/29/2001: Radio Story - Joe Driskill, Director of Missouri's Department of Economic Development made it official; Missouri is in a recession.
• 11/29/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri in Recession
• 11/29/2001: Radio Story - A spokesman for the Department of Commerce said the economic department's announcement that Missouri is in a recession may be premature.
• 11/28/2001: Radio Story - Senator Betty Sims says she wants to help people access medicare when needed.
• 11/28/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri's economy is the worst it has been in 10 years in terms of sales and employment.
• 11/28/2001: Newspaper Story - The GOP chairman of the Senate Health Committee voiced Wednesday reservations about the recommendations of the governor's task force on prescription drugs - although the task force included a key GOP plank in its proposal.
• 11/28/2001: Newspaper Story - The attorney general and the U.S. Forest Service disagree on prospecting permits.
• 11/28/2001: Newspaper Story - As Mid-Missourians brace themselves for the first blast of winter weather, the Missouri Public Commission is seeking accelerated review of a court order stalling efforts to require utility service for Missouri's lower income in areas of western and southern Missouri.
• 11/27/2001: Radio Story - Missouri is seeing an increase in animal rescues and its not costing the state a dime. All funding comes from private donations
• 11/27/2001: Newspaper Story - The Transportation Department Director presents lawmakers with a plan for $1 billion in extra spending.
• 11/27/2001: Radio Story - Transportation Director Henry Hungerbeeler was chastised by the Senate Transportation committee for hiring a new public relations director at a salary of $96,000 per year.
• 11/27/2001: Radio Story - An interim committee is not accepting many changes for legislation to the no call list.
• 11/26/2001: Newspaper Story - MoDOT's hiring of a $100,000 communications director has raised the ire of some state legislators.
• 11/21/2001: Newspaper Story - While many Missourians will be home or visiting loved ones for Thanksgiving dinner, the aromas of holiday cooking will be wafting through the wards of the state institutions as well.
• 11/21/2001: Newspaper Story - The first of four Missouri security panel meetings convened Tuesday to propose ways of safeguarding the state from terrorist attacks.
• 11/19/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri based D.C, Inc, conducting business as Dirt Cheap Cigarettes and Beer, refuses to back down from a law suit filed against the state Friday.
• 11/16/2001: News summary for the week of November 12, 2001
• 11/16/2001: Newspaper Story - The state budget could finish the fiscal year $70 million short of expectations, and laying off state employees is possible.
• 11/16/2001: Newspaper Story - Just a few weeks before initial proposals for legislation are due, the Missouri House of Representatives Interim Committee on Election Reform and Ballot Access met Friday to discuss possible changes to voting procedures in the state.
• 11/16/2001: Radio Story - Due to shortcoming on income tax withholdings, the budget will be short seventy million dollars.
• 11/15/2001: Newspaper Story - A House committee formed to evaluate solutions to the rising number of repeat offenders met for the last time today. The committee will present its recommendations to the next legislative session.
• 11/15/2001: Radio Story - A Senate interim committee met to hear testimony of what election changes Missourians want to see.
• 11/15/2001: Newspaper Story - A special legislative committee continues hearings on changing the state's election process.
• 11/13/2001: Newspaper Story - The Missorui Department of Transportation told the General Assembly's Joint Oversight Committee that Missourians' investment in the state's highways is being managed well.
• 11/12/2001: Radio Story - The state is giving honorary diplomas to Veterans who dropped out of high school in order to serve in the US military.
• 11/12/2001: Newspaper Story - The Supreme Court Justice, known for frankness and conservatism, will give a public lecture on "Interpreting the Constitution" on Nov. 14.
• 11/ 9/2001: News summary for the week of November 5, 2001
• 11/ 9/2001: Radio Story - Although warm temperatures are not desired for deer season, the Missouri Department of Conservation expects a good harvest.
• 11/ 8/2001: Radio Story - The Missouri Health Department said that those over the age of 65 or who have health problems should get the vaccine before everybody else.
• 11/ 8/2001: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate Research Division has lost half its staff in the past two months in what some Democratic Senators have agreed is an "uncertain environment."
• 11/ 8/2001: Newspaper Story - The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers held an open house Wednesday evening to explain and answer questions about its Revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
• 11/ 8/2001: Radio Story - The Missouri PTA and School Board Associations have the backing of the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on a petition for a majority, not two-thirds, vote on bond issues for state schools.
• 11/ 8/2001: Radio Story - Lieutenant Tim Hull says travel is usually high over the holidays, but the events of September 11th may increase the number of drivers on Missouri highways.
• 11/ 8/2001: Newspaper Story - More Senate staffers leave, prompting Democratic charges against the Senate's GOP leadership.
• 11/ 8/2001: Radio Story - The Society of Design Administration exhibits displays from the fourth annual mid Missouri design competition using canned food.
• 11/ 7/2001: Newspaper Story - Everyone who talks about Hugh McVey wants to talk about collective bargaining.
• 11/ 7/2001: Newspaper Story - With Missouri feeling like spring-time, the much anticipated deer hunting season opening Saturday may be a big disappointment for some area hunters.
• 11/ 5/2001: Radio Story - A new health lab to help combat terrorism is being delayed by Gov. Holden who will not release the $25 million appropriated last session.
• 11/ 5/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri will not build second lab to test for anthrax due to budget shortfalls.
• 11/ 2/2001: News summary for the week of October 29, 2001
• 11/ 2/2001: Newspaper Story - first amendment, free speech, campaign finance
• 11/ 1/2001: Radio Story - Governor Holden criticized the Department of Energy in its transportation of nuclear waste through the state.
• 11/ 1/2001: Newspaper Story - Gov. Holden activated 30 national guardsmen on Thursday to boost up protection at Missouri nuclear facilities.
• 11/ 1/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri Could Be More Prepared for Bioterrorism Says State Health Official
• 11/ 1/2001: Radio Story - Director Maureen Dempsey said Missouri is prepared in many areas against a bioterrorist attack, but improvements in the system still can be made.
• 11/ 1/2001: Radio Story - Mail room employees for the Missouri House of Representatives aren't wearing gloves or any other protective gear, even in light of Anthrax spores discovered 120 miles away.