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January 2004 Stories

• 1/30/2004: News summary for the week of January 26, 2004
• 1/29/2004: Newspaper Story - A deal that would give the Universtiy of Missouri roughly $200 million for building construction fell through Thursday morning on a technical ruling.
• 1/28/2004: Newspaper Story - More money topped the list of recommendations Missouri's Transportation Department director presented to a joint session of Missouri's legislature Wednesday.
• 1/28/2004: Radio Story - A filibuster has erupted in Missouri's Senate over a proposal to rename Southwest Missouri State University to Missouri State University.
• 1/28/2004: Newspaper Story - Would allow Southwest Missouri State University to change name to Missouri State University. The UM System would recieve a bond to help fund construction of various projects.
• 1/28/2004: Newspaper Story - A bill that would close a corporate tax loophole is ready for final passage in the House.
• 1/28/2004: Newspaper Story - Some Senate Republicans have expressed support for revenue increases to help balance the budget. Sen. Matt Bartle, R-Jackson County, introduced bills that would increase gambling boat admission fees and court fees with the proceeds earmarked for education.
• 1/26/2004: Newspaper Story - The University of Missouri president would be blocked from being a chancellor under a proposed bill.
• 1/26/2004: Newspaper Story - A Missouri legislative panel was told Monday that it could take nearly $1 billion to "adequately" fund Missouri schools.
• 1/23/2004: News summary for the week of January 19, 2004
• 1/21/2004: Newspaper Story - Partisan rancor marked Gov. Bob Holden's State of the State Address Wednesday, as his education, job, and revenue plans all fell under heavy assualt from Republican leadership. The program he announced was essentially the same as the program he put forth last year, with a continued emphasis on a tax increase to help fund Missouri's public schools.
• 1/21/2004: Newspaper Story - Two issues deemed integral to the Columbia area by local legislators - restoring education funding and promoting life sciences -- topped the list of priorities in Gov. Bob Holden's state of the state address.
• 1/21/2004: Newspaper Story - Tax increases the legislature rejected last year were proposed again by Gov. Bob Holden in his State of the State address Wednesday. The governor's proposed revenue increases, totaling $689 million per year, are similar to his package of last year that failed in the legislature including increases in taxes on corporations, gambling and tobacco.
• 1/20/2004: Radio Story - The GOP is trying to overturn Gov. Holden's order requiring all state workers covered by collective barganing agreements to pay union service fees.
• 1/16/2004: News summary for the week of January 12, 2004
• 1/15/2004: Newspaper Story - A House and Senate bill to rework various components of Missouri's MAP testing regimen will help allow schools to meet a federal standard that is actually lower than the goal Missouri educators set for themselves.
• 1/15/2004: Radio Story - Longer feature on legislation to lower testing standards for Missouri schools under the No Child Left Behind law.
• 1/15/2004: Radio Story - Republican lawmakers filed legislation to lower school MAP testing standards to avoid possible loss of federal funds from the No Child Left Behind law.
• 1/14/2004: Newspaper Story - An experiment with humor at the expense of current Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Matt Blunt garnered few laughs Wednesday morning.
• 1/14/2004: Newspaper Story - Identity theft penalties would be increased from six months in jail to a possible class A felony under a bill initially approved by the House.
• 1/14/2004: Newspaper Story - Missouri's first black Supreme Court Chief Justice called for increased diversity during the State of the Judiciary address.
• 1/13/2004: Newspaper Story - The House Rules Committee sent to the full House a resolution to block the governor's order to let unions take fees from non-union state government workers.
• 1/13/2004: Newspaper Story - A bill introduced in the Senate Wednesday would require more information to be gathered from businesses who receive government subsidies.
• 1/13/2004: Newspaper Story - Sen. Ken Jacob, D-Columbia, proposed a deal to trade $200 million in bond proposals for the University of Missouri system for the Southwest Missouri State University name change.
• 1/12/2004: Radio Story - The Joint Committee on Tax Policy says improved oversight and reporting will help find out which programs work and which don't
• 1/12/2004: Newspaper Story - The lawsuit, filed last week, asserts that the state's complicated public school funding formula is neither equitable nor adequate in its distribution of state funds.
• 1/12/2004: Newspaper Story - This year begins the final year in Missouri's House for three Columbia-area legislators, and their circumstances are hardly conducive for going out with a bang. Boone County's state senator and two of its representatives to be outsted by term limits find themselves in the minority party, with limited power to push their legislation onto the top of the legislative agenda.
• 1/12/2004: Radio Story - School buses in Missouri don't have to have seat belts because mandating them would require major redesigns and overhauls to the buses
• 1/ 9/2004: News summary for the week of January 5, 2004
• 1/ 7/2004: Newspaper Story - Partisan squabbles replaced bipartisan cooperation with in an hour of the start of the 2004 legislative session.
• 1/ 6/2004: Newspaper Story - Missouri legislators predict politics and budgets will dominate the legislative session that begins Wednesday.
• 1/ 6/2004: Newspaper Story - On the eve of Missouri's 2004 legislative session, legislative leaders and the governor's office still were in dispute about how much money the state will have to spend.
• 1/ 6/2004: Newspaper Story - Nearly half of Missouri's school districts file suit against the state's system for funding local schools.