. | Proponents of Prop. A stand to benefit financially from higher tobacco tax (11/1/02) |
Missouri's hospitals, who also helped initiate the campaign, stand to gain as much as $100 million annually in supplemental payments from the state.
. | Major drama in store for next week (11/01/02) |
Republicans are feeling so good about their chances to take over the state House that they have moved up their party caucus to Wednesday -- just one day after the general election and a day earlier than usual.
However, if Democrats keep control of the House, they may be faced with the chance to show a sign of either confidence or sympathy for Rep. Russ Carnahan. He plans to run for speaker if the party keeps control of the House, just a day after his mother, Jean Carnahan, stands for election to the U.S. Senate.
. | Insurer to pay up for overcharging minorities (11/01/02) |
The settlement reaches back to policies issued in 1901 and provides compensation for people who paid more because of race-based pricing and underwriting on about 1.8 million policies. The settlement fund will donate $5 million to the United Negro College Fund.
. | Blunt asks voters to help clean up elections (10/31/02) |
. | Approval of Missouri's U.S. senator uncertain as election looms (10/31/02) |
Federal law requires Missouri's secretary of state and governor both to sign off on the election results before they take effect.
. | Blunt to investigate allegations of charging for notarizing ballots (10/31/02) |
. | Nixon joins suit against satellite companies (10/31/02) |
. | Experts say proposed spam legislation faces big hurdles (10/28/02) |
But experts say it will face both practical and legal obstacles before it's put into practice.
. | Republicans say they won't be suprised if Holden stalls on Talent win (10/28/02) |
Republicans say failure to act quickly would be going against the will of the people.