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December 2004 Stories

• 12/14/2004: Newspaper Story - Missouri is one of only three states in the country to allow the use of video games in state correctional facilities.
• 12/14/2004: Radio Story - State legislators created the early release program to reduce the number of inmates in Missouri prisons.
• 12/13/2004: Newspaper Story - After a long battle not to publish a rule allowing organized labor to collect union fees from non-union workers, Secretary of State Matt Blunt will publish the rule in the Missouri Register Dec. 15. Blunt has said he will rescind the order once he becomes governor.
• 12/13/2004: Radio Story - Daniel Shipley brought his lawsuit aimed at reclaiming tax dollars from Planned Parenthood to Cole County Circuit Court on Monday.
• 12/10/2004: News summary the week of December 6, 2004
• 12/10/2004: Newspaper Story - The reorganization of state legislative offices follows every election year.
• 12/10/2004: Newspaper Story - New shipments of flu vaccines entering Missouri in the coming week will easy the state's shortage on shots, but a full remedy has yet to be found.
• 12/ 9/2004: Radio Story - Attorney General Jay Nixon says he wants judges to hear from crime victims before felons can be released early from prison.
• 12/ 9/2004: Radio Story - Republican leader tells the Missouri Transportation Committee he's not ruling anything out.
• 12/ 8/2004: Newspaper Story - After presenting her latest audit finding, McCaskill said she wants to continue being Missouri's state auditor after the 2006 election. She said she is unsure about running again for governor.
• 12/ 7/2004: Radio Story - Joint Interim Committee on Multimodal Transportation is exploring new ways for Missouri to fund Amtrak
• 12/ 7/2004: Newspaper Story - Governor-elect Matt Blunt has selected his former Sunday school teacher, Ken McClure to be his chief of staff.
• 12/ 7/2004: Radio Story - Missouri has no record on the amount of recipients in the I-SaveRx program, after more than a month. The four participating states have no direct control over the program.
• 12/ 7/2004: Radio Story - The federal legislation to be voted on in Congress would make uniform standards for all state driver's licenses. One of the provisions would restrict illegal immigrants from getting a license.
• 12/ 7/2004: Radio Story - Matt Blunt named Springfield, Mo., native Ken McClure as his joint chief of staff on Tuesday. Blunt also named four other gubernatorial appointments including John Russell, as the deputy chief of staff for administration, and Rob Monsees as the deputy chief of staff for policy.
• 12/ 6/2004: Newspaper Story - After a hearing in Cole County Circuit Court last week, the lawsuit against the state's school funding system will proceed.
• 12/ 6/2004: Newspaper Story - A spokesman for Governor-elect Matt Blunt said recent reports criticizing the management of Missouri's Medicaid system show that a reorganization of the program needs to be seriously considered. Inadequate computer systems, poor organization and mistakes by staffers have allowed taxpayer dollars to be misspent, according to two reports issued by the Committee on Legislative Research on Monday.
• 12/ 6/2004: Newspaper Story - After a court decision to delay the trial of Missouri's school funding formula, the attorney general's office has 15 days to decide whether the formula violates the Missouri constitution by not providing equal and adequate funding to the state's public schools.
• 12/ 3/2004: News summary the week of November 29, 2004
• 12/ 3/2004: Newspaper Story - There will be at least two different invitations printed up for Governor-elect Matt Blunt's inauguration, though neither will be required to gain admission.
• 12/ 3/2004: Radio Story - Democrats are putting together their own version of tickets to Missouri's Jan. 10 inaguration.
• 12/ 1/2004: Newspaper Story - Blunt appoints Senate Administrator Michael Keathley as commissioner of the Office of Administration and Deputy Secretary of State Dan Ross as chief information officer. The two will work to consolidate state government's information technology systems and services.
• 12/ 1/2004: Newspaper Story - With a Republican controlled legistor and governor, state employers now have a clear road to passing liability lawsuits limits and to restructure worker compensation laws.