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September 2001 Stories

• 9/28/2001: News summary for the week of September 24, 2001
• 9/28/2001: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Economic Development Department will hold a public meeting to gather input on cutting $7.5 million worth of tax credit programs.
• 9/28/2001: Radio Story - No specifics are determined, but Holden is planning to make final decisions soon.
• 9/28/2001: Newspaper Story - The country's largest Bosnian refugee population is in St Louis. Efforts are made to help the community cope with the trauma of war.
• 9/28/2001: Newspaper Story - An issue that has long split the Missouri agricultural community was finally put to rest Friday morning as Gov. Bob Holden signed a compromise bill to the debated livestock price discrimination law.
• 9/27/2001: Radio Story - Missouri Highway is looking for suspicious vehicle carrying hazardous materials in light of the terrorist attacks.
• 9/27/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri National Guard to be Used for Airport Security
• 9/27/2001: Radio Story - Missouri Governor bob Holden says he is still evaluating how to use the National Guard to protect the state's commercial airports.
• 9/27/2001: Radio Story - State legislators treatened to investigate KOMU for barring its reporters from wearing lapel flags.
• 9/27/2001: Radio Story - The Attorney General's Office says it expects to reveal lawsuits against Missouri gas stations for price inflation next Tuesday.
• 9/26/2001: Missouri's Health Department is stepping up security measures in response to Gov. Bob Holden's proclamation of Missouri's vulnerability as a terrorist target.
• 9/26/2001: Radio Story - Governor Holden has hired a new terrorism czar to oversee Missouri's preparation for terrorist activities.
• 9/26/2001: Newspaper Story - H&R Block was caught up in the state's enforcement of the new law restricting telemarketers.
• 9/26/2001: Radio Story - Materials used to make drivers licenses was stolen from a fee office in Overland, MO. Authorites are worried the equipment can be used in conncection to further terrorist attacks in the US.
• 9/26/2001: Newspaper Story - After a Sunday break-in that resulted in the theft of ID-making equipment, burglar alarms are still not mandatory for licensing centers.
• 9/26/2001: Newspaper Story - The KOMU policy of not allowing reporters to wear symbols of patriotism on the air is upsetting some Missouri lawmakers.
• 9/26/2001: Radio Story - The FAA lifted its flying restriction on crop-dusters Tuesday, but the temporary grounding may have caused trouble for cotton farmers.
• 9/25/2001: Radio Story - The Missouri State Teachers Association opposes Govenor Holden's executive order on collective bargaining while the Missouri National Education Association supports the govenor.
• 9/25/2001: Radio Story - A new law goes into effect Saturday that lowers the legal blood alcohol content for driving from .10% to .08%.
• 9/25/2001: Radio Story - Missouri cotton farm owners are facing the problems while fighting with insects without crop dusters
• 9/25/2001: Radio Story - Branson is not being affected by lack of tourism
• 9/24/2001: Radio Story - Senate President Pro Tem Peter Kinder is just one lawmaker who supports a lawsuit seeking to repeal Governor Holden's executive order allowing collective bargaining by public state employees.
• 9/24/2001: Newspaper Story - Senate President Pro Tem Peter Kinder filed a lawsuit against Gov. Bob Holden Monday to challenge the constitutionality of Holden's union rights executive order.
• 9/24/2001: Newspaper Story - Gov. Bob Holden named Michael Hartmann his new chief of staff to replace the resigning Julie Gibson. Hartmann said he would be looking forward to working with the legislature on issues like safety, security, the state budget, and education.
• 9/21/2001: News summary for the week of September 17, 2001
• 9/21/2001: Radio Story - Regulations on flying
• 9/20/2001: Radio Story - A computer worm, W32.Nimda, did reach many Missouri state agencies and the capital. The Director from the Division of Informational Services says computers are now clear and clean.
• 9/20/2001: Newspaper Story - Democratic No-show in Collective Bargaining Committee Angers GOP
• 9/20/2001: Radio Story - Missouri's tourism business is going to be negatively affected by the last week's terrorist attacks.
• 9/20/2001: Missouri's Transportation Department was faulted for inadequate perfomance standards in a report released by Missouri's state auditor.
• 9/20/2001: Radio Story - A little more than a week after one of the bloodiest terrorist attacks in our nation's history, Missouri got a new leader of its National Guard.
• 9/20/2001: Radio Story - State Auditor Claire McCaskill issued a report early this week detailing improvements that need to be made within the five year program.
• 9/20/2001: Radio Story - No-shows, no answers, and no progress were themes of a Senate committee hearing on collective bargaining.
• 9/20/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri officials warn the state could suffer an economic backlash due to the American Airlines lay offs.
• 9/19/2001: Newspaper Story - Columbia's Hinkson Creek will retain its distinction as one of the state's designated water-pollution problems as a result of a federally-mandated review now under way. Boone County's Lake of the Woods is a proposed addition to the list, while the committee plans to retain Rocky Fork's position as an impaired water.
• 9/19/2001: Radio Story - Missouri's Attorney General Jay Nixon announced he would demand $1,000 in penalties from gas stations that dramatically increased their prices after the terrorist attack.
• 9/19/2001: Newspaper Story - The attorney general demanded Wednesday that some of the gas stations involved in price gouging on Sept. 11 pay $1,000 or face law suits
• 9/19/2001: Radio Story - Expected layoffs in airlines may be a drain on Social Services.
• 9/19/2001: Radio Story - The Boeing Corporation announced it will cut 30,000 jobs, but the employees at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport will not be affected.
• 9/18/2001: Radio Story - Skelton says there will be no draft and the military budget must be increased to support the war on terrorism.
• 9/18/2001: Radio Story - Holden has cut back on his use of flying because of budget cuts.
• 9/18/2001: Newspaper Story - The only Missouri member of the House Armed Services Committee said Tuesday the state's draft-age men may not be called to action to fight a war on terrorism.
• 9/17/2001: Newspaper Story - More than $4 billion of state government's funds for retired state workers got a ride on Monday's stock market roller coaster.
• 9/14/2001: News summary for the week of September 10, 2001
• 9/13/2001: Newspaper Story - A spokesman with the Missouri State Highway Patrol confirmed a report from the Boston Globe that law enforcement officials believe Columbia, Missouri is one of six U.S. cities with ties to Osama bin Laden.
• 9/13/2001: Radio Story - The St. Louis Salvation Army has helped St. Louis residents through this tragedy by comforting stranded travelers at Lambert airport on Tuesday and establishing a phone network for residents to reach family members in New York.
• 9/13/2001: Newspaper Story - The Pentagon today announced plans to call up several thousand reservists. In Missouri, 30 National Guardsmen were activated to state duty.
• 9/13/2001: Radio Story - The Missouri Highway Patrol confirms reports that there is a group of Osama bin Laden sympathizers in Columbia, Missouri.
• 9/13/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Senate adds a welfare-program expansion to the elderly prescription drug bill.
• 9/13/2001: Radio Story - Missouri's Highway Patrol confirms a national report that sympathizers of Osama bin Laden are located in Columbia, Mo.
• 9/13/2001: Radio Story - The phenomenom of "panic buying" came to rest at the gas pumps in the state this week as there was a mad dash to get the gas, preparing for a possible shortage of the supply in the wake of the terrorist attack in New York and Washington D.C.
• 9/13/2001: Radio Story - High Prices mean long lines, low supply, and "panic buying" mean trouble for consumers and gas retailers in the wake of the terrorist attack in New York and Washington D.C.
• 9/13/2001: Radio Story - Gas Prices soared at some pumps throughout Missouri, but no immediate supply shortage is seen in the near future as America recovers from terrorist acts.
• 9/13/2001: Radio Story - Missouri State Agencies have offered assistance to rescue efforts in New York. Lists of volunteers and firefighters are ready to work if more workers are needed.
• 9/12/2001: Radio Story - Missouri Law-makers say, the safe trip is worth long hour waiting at the airports.
• 9/12/2001: Radio Story - Missouri Legislators try to move on and talk about the next steps that America should take.
• 9/12/2001: Newspaper Story - The financial effects in Missouri of Tuesday's terror got the attention from various state government officials Wednesday.
• 9/12/2001: Radio Story - With prices as high as five dollars per gallon in some parts of the state, the Missouri Attorney General launched an investigation.
• 9/12/2001: Missouri might benefit, rather than lose, from the closing of the New York Stock Exchange.
• 9/11/2001: Newspaper Story - One day after the nation's greatest terrorist attack, Missouri government officials vowed the business of government would continue today. The legislature's special session plans to keep its schedule.
• 9/11/2001: Radio Story - The violence in New York and Washington D.C. have increased security throughout the United States and in Missouri. While Govenor Holden announced to keep the capital open, Senate President Pro Tem Peter Kinder decided to let Senators leave for the day.
• 9/11/2001: Radio Story - Governor Holden addresses the House, saying they should still hold the planned hearings.
• 9/11/2001: Radio Story - Tuesday's tragedy does not affect the House committee.
• 9/11/2001: Newspaper Story - Military bases throughout Missouri were put on a heightened state of alert today after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.
• 9/11/2001: Radio Story - Lawmakers give their responses to the events of New York and Washington D.C.
• 9/11/2001: Radio Story - Missouri's governor put forces on alert at state offices and the legislature's session continued after the terrorist attacks.
• 9/10/2001: Radio Story - Missouri lawmakers launch effort to get Missouri's WW II veterans to apply for special medals established by the legislature.
• 9/10/2001: Radio Story - The House overwhelmingly approved a bill that will expand Medicaid coverage and establish a prescription drug program for senior citizens
• 9/10/2001: Newspaper Story - The Missouri House has approved creating a new welfare program to provide state funds to lower-income elderly to help pay for their prescription drugs.
• 9/10/2001: Newspaper Story - The compromise plan for prescription drugs for the elderly that is emerging from the legislature's special session leaves out many elderly.
• 9/ 7/2001: News summary for the week of September 3, 2001
• 9/ 7/2001: Newspaper Story - An issue that has split Missouri's agriculture community is among three issues before the state General Assembly's special session that begins Wednesday.
• 9/ 7/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri's legislative special session has moved halfway to handing Gov. Bob Holden a legislative slam dunk -- after months of predicitons by members of both parties that Holden's failures were guaranteeing he would be a one-term chief of state.
• 9/ 6/2001: Radio Story - Julie Gibson, Governor Holden's Chief of Staff, refused to show up at the first hearing of a special Senate Committee investigating the Governor's legality of using executive order for collective bargaining.
• 9/ 6/2001: Radio Story - Legislators consider amending current Livestock Pricing and Marketing Law.
• 9/ 6/2001: Radio Story - Task force Prescription Drug Program could run as high as 150 million dollars per year.
• 9/ 6/2001: Newspaper Story - The Senate Health Committee approved the governor's prescription drug program for the elderly.
• 9/ 6/2001: Radio Story - The Senate Health Committee reached a compromise and approved a bill very similar to the recommendations of the prescription drug task force.
• 9/ 6/2001: Radio Story - A special senate committee hearing only had Republican attendants.
• 9/ 5/2001: Radio Story - A special committee of Missouri's Senate will begin hearings Thursday into the governor's order allowing unions to seek fees from non-union state workers.
• 9/ 5/2001: Radio Story - All three of the governor's proposals for the legislature's special session will be heard by committees on the session's second day.
• 9/ 5/2001: Newspaper Story - Senate Special Committee investigation of Gov. Bob Holden's union rights order begins Thursday.
• 9/ 5/2001: Radio Story - Gov. Bob Holden acknowledged fewer Missourians would be covered by the revised prescription drug program he has urged the legislature's special session to approve.
• 9/ 5/2001: Newspaper Story - House members failed to show up and Senators were sent to the basement of the statehouse on the first day of the Missouri legislature's special session.
• 9/ 4/2001: Newspaper Story - A possible compromise may have been reached in the governor's plan to change the program that provides financial assistance to lower income elderly to purchase their prescription drugs.
• 9/ 4/2001: Radio Story - Many members of the Missouri House may not be at the Special Session.
• 9/ 4/2001: Radio Story - House leaders have told their members they do not need to show up for the first week of Missouri's special legislative session.
• 9/ 4/2001: Radio Story - Livestock pricing is concern at special session.
• 9/ 4/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri's agricultural community is split over a proposal before the legislature's special session to repeal a law regulating the sale price of livestock.
• 9/ 4/2001: Newspaper Story - Rep. Chuck Graham, D-Columbia, made an early announcement Tuesday that he will run for Majority Floor Leader for the state House for the 2003-2004 legislative session.
• 9/ 4/2001: Radio Story - Julie Gibson, Holden's Chief of Staff, will be leaving November 1.
• 9/ 4/2001: Newspaper Story - Missouri's legislative special session will begin today under a legal cloud with the leader of the state Senate questioning whether any bills out of the state House will pass constitutional muster.