. | Holden administration contracted State Parks call center out-of-state (07/29/04) |
JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri State Parks Reservation Center is located in Rapid City, South Dakota. The state-funded call center was awarded to a firm in South Dakota that employs 20 agents.
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. | Missouri Water Patrol to beef-up its force (07/27/04) |
JEFFERSON CITY - With two deaths already on Lake of the Ozarks and growing popularity, the Missouri Water Patrol is facing a challenge: eight patrol officers to patrol a shoreline the size of California's coastline.
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. | Doctors not taking advantage of state medical malpractice program (07/22/04) |
JEFFERSON CITY - One month into the state-sponsored medical malpractice program and only one doctor has been approved. Governor Holden ordered the program to help alleviate high premiums for doctors.
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. | Physicians not taking advantage of state medicial malpratice program (07/22/04) |
JEFFERSON CITY - One month in the state-sponsored program to help alleviate medical malpractice, only one doctor has been approved. Governor Holden ordered the program to offer options to doctors struggling with medical malpractice premiums.
. | Amber Alert system to use cell phones and web to locate abducted children (07/19/04) |
JEFFERSON CITY - The nation's Amber Alert system will notify police and other agencies through cell phones, pagers and the web. Missouri Highway Patrol sees it as another tool, but plans on keeping the current system.
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. | Governor Holden signing more bills behind closed doors than last year (07/08/04) |
JEFFERSON CITY - Governor Holden has signed more than 180 bills, but only 31 were signed in public. Senate President Pro Temp Peter Kinder says that it's an unusually low number.
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. | Missouri must spend $11 million in education grants or lose it (07/01/04) |
JEFFERSON CITY - The federal government is warning all 50 states to spend 2002 education grants or send back the money to the U.S. Treasury.
Missouri has more than $11 million to spend by the September 30th deadline.
But the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education says it may be hard to spend it all.
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