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April 2005 Stories

• 4/29/2005: News summary for the week of April 25, 2005
• 4/28/2005: Radio Story - The legislature passed a bill eliminating the penalties for having vehicle registration tabs stolen.
• 4/28/2005: Radio Story - With a division between rural and urban representatives, a House commitee defeated proposed changes to the foundation formula.
• 4/28/2005: Radio Story - The plan to revamp how Missouri schools get state money has hit a snag in the House
• 4/28/2005: Newspaper Story - A House committee rejected the proposal to change the state's foundation formula on a 14-9 vote.
• 4/27/2005: Newspaper Story - The bill would not allow children under three or pregnant women to receive immunizations containing mercury, the bill passed out of the Senate April 13.
• 4/27/2005: Newspaper Story - A seat belt bill would allow police officers to stop drivers soley for not wearing their seat belt.
• 4/27/2005: Newspaper Story - State Departments Import Indians for Tech Jobs
• 4/27/2005: Radio Story - New bill means state can choose to fund or not to fund wheelchairs.
• 4/27/2005: Newspaper Story - Medicaid Protestors Chain Themselves to House Doors
• 4/27/2005: Newspaper Story - Nascar driver Carl Edwards was the special guest of Sen. Chuck Graham, D-Columbia, on Wednesday
• 4/27/2005: Radio Story - The House General Laws Committee passed Senate Bill 500. The bill would pass some of the cost of First Steps to both parents and insurance companies.
• 4/27/2005: Radio Story - Democratic Senators say that the middle class is gettinga raw deal from administration and Republican policies.
• 4/26/2005: Newspaper Story - The Senate gave final approval to a $40 million cut from the operating budgets of the state's public colleges and universities.
• 4/26/2005: Radio Story - The Missouri Supreme Court reverses a St. Louis school counselor's misconduct charges.
• 4/26/2005: Radio Story - Governor Blunt signed the bill cutting healthcare to nearly 100,000 Missourians.
• 4/26/2005: Radio Story - The tax is for managed care providers to generate more money for the state Medicaid program.
• 4/26/2005: Radio Story - Republican Governor Blunt ruled the execution should take place, despite the findings of a parole board.
• 4/25/2005: Radio Story - The Senate has until Friday, May 6th to pass the budget, which is a constitutional requirement.
• 4/25/2005: Radio Story - The popularity of online gambling is grabbing money from the Missouri Lottery.
• 4/25/2005: Radio Story - The Missouri Lottery will cut their contribution to public schools by 15 million dollars.
• 4/22/2005: News summary for the week of April 18, 2005
• 4/21/2005: Radio Story - The Senate Appropriations committee passed their version of the Missouri budget to the full Senate.
• 4/21/2005: Newspaper Story - The Senate Appropriations Committee's 5 percent cut to higher education permitted it to reduce some of the Medicaid cuts in the House budget.
• 4/21/2005: Radio Story - Missouri is the only state where it is a felony for midwives to deliver babies without a doctor present, but the House of Representatives passed a bill that would legalize the practice.
• 4/21/2005: Radio Story - The Senate heard a bill increasing prison time for drunk drivers causing fatal accidents.
• 4/21/2005: Radio Story - The bill opens up lawsuits against people assisting minors in getting an abortion without parental consent.
• 4/20/2005: Newspaper Story - List of interested parties is yet to be confirmed
• 4/20/2005: Radio Story - A filibuster on Senator John Loudon's "Open Contracting Act" by Democrat Victor Callahan in response to the removal of governmental power to regulate workers' benefits and training.
• 4/20/2005: Radio Story - Legislators move closer to adopting a bill that places harsher penalties for underage drinking.
• 4/20/2005: Radio Story - Legislators are close to adopting the bill which allows for more strict penalties for minors caught drinking and for parents caught serving alcohol to minors.
• 4/20/2005: Radio Story - The Senate Agriculture Committee is considering legislation that would legalize the use of physical therapy on dogs and cats.
• 4/19/2005: Radio Story - Legislation to ban private ownership of lions and tigers has died in Missouri's legislature.
• 4/19/2005: Newspaper Story - A proposed constitutional amendment to limit increases to the state budget was approved by the House Budget Committee.
• 4/19/2005: Radio Story - Shortly after the election of Pope Benedict XVI, legislators express their excitement.
• 4/19/2005: Radio Story - The Senate discussed toughening penalties for underage drinkers and those who give them the alcohol.
• 4/18/2005: Radio Story - Jackson County Representative Bryan Pratt's bill aims to prevent the installation of spyware and adware programs on computers without the user's knowledge.
• 4/18/2005: Radio Story - Bill Alter was sworn into the senate today, before the Secretary of State's office recounted the votes.
• 4/18/2005: Newspaper Story - State agencies, like individual consumers, are dealing with the effects of higher gas prices.
• 4/18/2005: Radio Story - Claire McCaskill says she needs more access into tax data to be sure what tax programs are working for Missouri citizens.
• 4/15/2005: News summary for the week of April 11, 2005
• 4/14/2005: Radio Story - The house version of the state budget adds $170 million to education, while cutting $370 for social services.
• 4/14/2005: Newspaper Story - A Senate filibuster stopped a bill to allow motorcyclists to choose to wear helmets while the House gave final approval to the state budget.
• 4/14/2005: Radio Story - Senate filibuster shelves bill removing helmet requirement
• 4/14/2005: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate has passed a new formula to fund public schools.
• 4/13/2005: Radio Story - Under the new bill insurance companies would pay up to $3000 a year to families with a child in the program.
• 4/13/2005: Newspaper Story - The First Steps bill would change the way the program is financed, placing the primary burden on insurance providers.
• 4/13/2005: Newspaper Story - Debating until nearly midnight, the Senate approved a new school foundation formula with a price tag of more than $650 million, if fully-funded.
• 4/13/2005: Radio Story - With department plans to increase asphalt production, rising prices of oil and gasoline make the costs of production to be higher than they have ever been.
• 4/13/2005: Radio Story - Legislators voted down an amendment that would have cut their own state-provided healthcare benefits by twenty percent. The amendment failed by only three votes.
• 4/13/2005: Newspaper Story - An amendment to reduce elected officials health insurance failed in the House today.
• 4/13/2005: Radio Story - The house was split almost evenly on the subject.
• 4/13/2005: Radio Story - Democrat Trent Skaggs backed an amendment that would have saved the state of Missouri nearly 300,000 dollars.
• 4/13/2005: Radio Story - One University of Missouri professor says the bullfrog is a pest. Kansas City Representative Susan Phillips says she doesn't care about the arguments against her bill.
• 4/13/2005: Radio Story - One University of Missouri professor says the bullfrog is a pest. Kansas City Representative Susan Phillips says she thinks the arguments against her bill are silly.
• 4/12/2005: Radio Story - Highway Patrol officers are monitoring traffic in stationary cars to cut fuel costs.
• 4/12/2005: Radio Story - The formula would base funding on how much the most successful school districts spend per pupil.
• 4/12/2005: Radio Story - The House has begun the 12 hour debate on the bills that make up Missouri's budget.
• 4/11/2005: Newspaper Story - ROUNDUP: UM open to big changes; Medicaid "awesome"; Vaccine bill; Blunt budget
• 4/ 8/2005: News summary for the week of April 4, 2005
• 4/ 7/2005: Radio Story - An estimated 100,000 people will be cut from Medicaid and the program will end in 2008.
• 4/ 7/2005: Radio Story - The House of Representatives passed the bill that will cut an estimated 100,00 Missourians off Medicaid and terminate the program in 2008.
• 4/ 7/2005: Newspaper Story - The House passed the Senate's version of a bill that would cut 89,000 people off Medicaid.
• 4/ 6/2005: Radio Story - It was the first day of debate on the Senate floor concerning stem cell research. The bill would make it illegal to clone a human being.
• 4/ 6/2005: Newspaper Story - After extensive debate in senate, the lack of Republican votes put the bill to rest.
• 4/ 6/2005: Radio Story - Hundreds of Missourians voiced their opposition to proposed healthcare cuts.
• 4/ 6/2005: Newspaper Story - Hundreds gathered at the Capitol in a continued effort to stop cuts to the program.
• 4/ 6/2005: Newspaper Story - House lawmakers opened debate on Gov. Matt Blunt's Medicaid cuts.
• 4/ 6/2005: Radio Story - The bill to cut Medicaid would also eliminate the program in 2008.
• 4/ 5/2005: Newspaper Story - University officials said a proposed to change to how higher education is funded could hurt colleges.
• 4/ 5/2005: Radio Story - The bill owuld allow the replacement of up to two sets of two license plate tabs when stolen.
• 4/ 5/2005: Radio Story - Gas prices are closing in on record highs everywhere.
• 4/ 4/2005: Newspaper Story - Transportation director Pete Rahn promoted Work Zone Safety Week.
• 4/ 4/2005: Radio Story - Democratic Senator Harry Kennedy's bill would create a state board and uniform practices.
• 4/ 4/2005: Radio Story - Director of Transportation Pete Rahn sat as a desk in the middle of Highway 63 in order to make the point that work zones are dangerous and drivers should have a greater appreciation of their work.
• 4/ 1/2005: News summary for the week of March 28, 2005