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March 2002 Stories

• 3/22/2002: News summary for the week of March 18, 2002
• 3/21/2002: Newspaper Story - The Senate approved $30 million in supplemental funds Thursday.
• 3/21/2002: Radio Story - Legislators are heading out on spring break--but the budget and other key bills have yet to see debate in either chamber.
• 3/21/2002: Newspaper Story - The House approved Southwest Missouri State University changing its name to Missouri State University.
• 3/21/2002: Newspaper Story - The House Thursday approved the creation of a multicultural center to help immigrants, but did not reserve any funds for the project.
• 3/21/2002: Newspaper Story - The house budget committee slashed the coordinating board for higher education by 62%.
• 3/21/2002: Newspaper Story - Spring break started Thursday for Missouri legislators.
• 3/21/2002: Newspaper Story - The House budget committee has voted to decrease the higher education's coordinating board budget by 62%.
• 3/21/2002: Newspaper Story - Legislators have introduced more bills this year than ever before.
• 3/21/2002: Newspaper Story - Missouri lawmakers are seeking to pass bills that would make it possible for adopted adults to recover their birth records.
• 3/20/2002: Radio Story - The House budget committee voted next year's budget out of committee and onto the House floor Wednesday night.
• 3/20/2002: Newspaper Story - The House Budget Committee passed the proposed budget and the use of $75 million from the Rainy Day Fund.
• 3/20/2002: Newspaper Story - The House gave preliminary approval to a bill that would change the name of four Missouri institutions of higher education.
• 3/20/2002: Radio Story - Senate President Pro Tem Peter Kinder is sponsoring a bill to prevent any new gaming.
• 3/20/2002: Newspaper Story - Senate President Pro Tem Peter Kinder (D-Cape Girardeau) is sponsering a bill to prevent any new gaming from coming to the state.
• 3/20/2002: Radio Story - The proposed 20% tax increase on tobacco products is heavily debated in a Senate committee hearing.
• 3/20/2002: Newspaper Story - Three bills were proposed so that adopted adults older than a certain age would be able to obtain a copy of their original birth certificate.
• 3/19/2002: Radio Story - The House Budget Committee voted to take away $8 million and three tests from the Missouri Assesment program.
• 3/19/2002: Radio Story - The Senate has given first round-approval to the "Dram Shop Law," which removes some liability from bartenders.
• 3/18/2002: Radio Story - Lawmakers propose legislation to force health insurance to cover weight-loss programs.,
• 3/18/2002: Radio Story - Senators Kennedy and Steelman asked the Governor to reconsider his plan to allow truckers to use special customs checkpoints, bypassing the usual border crossings.
• 3/18/2002: Newspaper Story - Debate to continue on a bill that would require insurance companies to provide health benefit plans to provide more complete mental health coverage.
• 3/18/2002: Radio Story - Senator Kennedy wants to work with Governor Holden on his proposal to streamline Mexican trucking to and from Missouri.
• 3/18/2002: Newspaper Story - The House Budget committee upheld 10 percent cuts proposed to the Higher Education budget, but voted against an additional 1 percent cut.
• 3/15/2002: News summary for the week of March 11, 2002
• 3/14/2002: Radio Story - The Senate gave first round approval to a bill allowing mothers to drop their newborns off at hospitals.
• 2/13/2002: Radio Story - Holden spokesman Jerry Natchigal says Holden's promotion his Rainy Day plan is necessary.
• 3/13/2002: Newspaper Story - Holden travelled last week to St. Louis, St. Joseph and Kansas City and gave speeches about his recommendations about using the budget reserve fund, known as the "Rainy day Fund".
• 3/13/2002: Radio Story - Cancer Patient discusses how a second opinion saved her life.
• 3/13/2002: Newspaper Story - The House gave preliminary approval to concealed weapons in vehicles.
• 3/13/2002: Newspaper Story - Around 150 state employees rallied at the Capitol in Jefferson City today demanding their group be recognized by the state as a union.
• 3/13/2002: Radio Story - St. Louis City Senator Harry Kennedy is sponsoring the bill which he says is not designed to burden care providers, but to protect elderly residents.
• 3/12/2002: Newspaper Story - The House gave first-round approval to using $88 million of tobacco settlement money to fix the state budget.
• 3/12/2002: Radio Story - Missouri Lawmakers fight over the difference between carrying a gun in your purse and in your glove compartment.
• 3/12/2002: Radio Story - Senate approved of an amendment adding tougher penalties to drivers who fail to yield to pedestrians.
• 3/12/2002: Radio Story - Lawmakers in the House gave first round approval to a plan that raises gaming boat boarding fees to help pay for public education.
• 3/12/2002: Radio Story - Senator Loudon says parents should be able to sue someone who helps a minor get around Missouri's parental consent laws for an abortion.
• 3/11/2002: Radio Story - An amendment that puts cameras in traffic lights was shot down by the Missouri Senate.
• 3/11/2002: Radio Story - House Bill 1817 would require that teachers and administrators outline school problems and propose solutions.
• 3/11/2002: Newspaper Story - Three years after EPA recommended phasing out use of a potential cancer-causing chemical in gasoline, Missouri lawmakers still are debating what to do about it. The chemical is methyl tertiary butyl ether -- or MTBE. It is added to gasoline sold in the St. Louis area as part of the state's plan submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency to address air pollution problems in the St. Louis.
• 3/11/2002: Newspaper Story - JEFFERSON CITY _ Three years after EPA recommended phasing out use of a potential cancer-causing chemical in gasoline, Missouri lawmakers still are debating what to do about it. The chemical is methyl tertiary butyl ether -- or MTBE. It is added to gasoline sold in the St. Louis area as part of the state's plan submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency to address air pollution problems in the St. Louis.
• 3/11/2002: Radio Story - Post-September 11 security checkpoints at Jefferson City's Truman building have led to approximately 18 drug and weapon possession arrests.
• 3/11/2002: Newspaper Story - Security checkpoints at the Truman State Office Building have led to the arrest of 18 people on drug and weapons possession charges since Oct. 9.
• 3/11/2002: Radio Story - Gov. Holden proposes an amendment that would keep some senior programs.
• 3/ 8/2002: News summary for the week of March 4, 2002
• 3/ 7/2002: Newspaper Story - Public colleges and universities are spending more than $800,000 every year lobbying Missouri lawmakers for more funding, according to state records.
• 3/ 7/2002: Radio Story - Health care groups file a petition to seek signatures to put a 50-55 cent cigarette tax increase on the statewide ballot.
• 3/ 6/2002: Newspaper Story - The absence of a statute of limitations fopr the prosecution of the crimes of rape and sodomy was clarified in a law adopted Wednesday.
• 3/ 6/2002: Newspaper Story - This is a profile of a woman with multiple personalities and how she and would be affected by mental health budget cuts.
• 3/ 6/2002: Newspaper Story - Bill would ban state government from competing with private companies offering commercial services on the Internet
• 3/ 6/2002: Newspaper Story - A statewide coalition filed the ballot initiatives that could generate as much as $300 million per year for a variety of health, life science, and early childhood development programs.
• 3/ 5/2002: Newspaper Story - A House committee gave tentative approval last week to Gov. Bob Holden's proposal to cut $49 million from the University of Missouri's budget.
• 3/ 5/2002: Radio Story - Even though the state has promoted more summer school programs over the past eight years, funding might be cut this year.
• 3/ 5/2002: Radio Story - After passing in a House Committee, a bill that requires health insurance companies to provide coverage for children who need hearing aids is going to the House floor.
• 3/ 5/2002: Radio Story - Lawmakers consider a proposal that would let voters decide the fate of a plan that funnels millions of tax dollars into a new Cardinals stadium in downtown St. Louis.
• 3/ 4/2002: Newspaper Story - Gov. Holden moved forward with his Rainy Day Fund proposal as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned whether it was constitutional.
• 3/ 4/2002: Radio Story - Holden declares the state is in an economic emergency so he can use the state's emergency reserve fund to balance the budget.
• 3/ 4/2002: Radio Story - A House committee hears testimoney on legislation to phase out a gasoline addictive that critics say is posing a health threat to Missourians.
• 3/ 4/2002: Radio Story - Missouri's governor says he supports legislation that cuts $45 million from what is defined as "full funding" for public schools.
• 3/ 4/2002: Radio Story - In the past two decades, an average of five police officers and three fire fighters have been killed on duty in Missouri annually. Under a new bill, the state would provide a lump sum payment of $150,000 to the survivors of a public safety officer killed while on duty.
• 3/ 1/2002: News summary for the week of February 25, 2002
• 3/ 1/2002: Newspaper Story - The state is facing lower general revenue collections for the first time on record.
• 3/ 1/2002: Newspaper Story - Some of Missouri's neediest citizens would find their situations worse under the operating budget presented by the state's governor
• 3/ 1/2002: Newspaper Story - The Department of Mental Health would face a 15 percent cut from last year's funding under Gov. Bob Holden's proposed budget.
• 3/ 1/2002: Newspaper Story - Some lawmakers and higher education officials are charging that Gov. Bob Holden is boosting funds for public schools on the backs of the state's institutions of higher education.
• 3/ 1/2002: Newspaper Story - State correctional facilities will be one of the few organizations to benefit under the governor's budget proposal.
• 3/ 1/2002: Newspaper Story - Under Holden's proposed budget, state employees would get no raises for the second straight year.
• 3/ 1/2002: Newspaper Story - State grants to public radio and television are eliminated in Gov. Holden's proposed budget