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Stories by Steve Ahern include:

• 12/11/2001: Newspaper Story - Are the areas of Columbia, Branso, Wentzville and Hermann ready for another name change to their telephone service provider? If an application is approved by the Missouri Public Service Commission, the short life of Verizon in the state of Missouri is due to expire.
• 12/ 5/2001: Newspaper Story - The Senate's Insurance Committee chairman says shrinking competition of health insurance companies is contributing to rising health costs.
• 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 - 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.
• 11/21/2001: 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.
• 10/19/2001: Newspaper Story - While MIssouri is having an unprecedented reduction in Missouri's welfare caseloads on the eve of the federal time-limit for welfare, one former recipient says that those getting off welfare still face significant hardships.
• 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/ 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.