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2010 Ethics Stories

• 12/13/2010: Radio Story - Missouri Supreme Court Justice William Ray Price pushed for increased funding to drug courts.
• 11/17/2010: Newspaper Story - Missouri's governor bans reporters from a news briefing on higher education.
• 11/ 9/2010: Radio Story - The Guatemalan ambassador sat in on a Missouri Supreme Court argument on adoption to show his support of immigrant parental rights.
• 10/25/2010: Radio Story - Email alerts are being sent to neighbors who have registered to see where sex offenders live
• 10/20/2010: Newspaper Story - Rex Sinquefield, wealthy backer of earnings tax repeal, funds many Missouri politicians
• 10/14/2010: Radio Story - Kansas City Public Television hosted the first debate between Missouri U.S. Senate candidates Robin Carnahan and Roy Blunt.
• 9/30/2010: Radio Story - Tomorrow a new janitorial contract will begin with a company owned by the same man whose company was found employing illegal immigrants
• 9/30/2010: Newspaper Story - Supporters of two of Missouri's ballot initiatives received millions of dollars in donations from out-of-state sources in September.
• 9/28/2010: Radio Story - Even with a shortage of a key chemical, Missouri executions will still proceed in the coming months.
• 9/27/2010: Radio Story - Success of a Jefferson City mosque leads to expansion.
• 9/16/2010: Radio Story - The Fox News Network has filed a lawsuit against Democratic Senate candidate Robin Carnahan over a
• 9/16/2010: Radio Story - Fox News sues Missouri Senate candidate Robin Carnahan over a television ad using Fox News Anchor Chris Wallace's interview with Roy Blunt from Jan. 15, 2006.
• 5/14/2010: Newspaper Story - The 2010 legislative session wrapped up with house passage of ethics reform while Senate debated jobs
• 5/13/2010: Radio Story - McGwire Highway to be renamed
• 5/12/2010: Newspaper Story - Overview of legislative progress on May 12, 2010
• 5/ 6/2010: Newspaper Story - The Mo. House passed an ethics reform bill by a party-line vote over the complaints of some Dems. who called it a
• 5/ 6/2010: Radio Story - Missouri's house Passed an ethics bill that changes lobbying restrictions and campaign finance rules.
• 5/ 6/2010: Radio Story - House Republicans push through ethics bill split on party lines.
• 4/28/2010: Newspaper Story - The blame game begins as both parties point fingers at each other over who let the comprehensive ethics reform bill die.
• 4/27/2010: Radio Story - House Democrats use a legislative move to push an ethics reform bill to the House floor.
• 4/26/2010: Newspaper Story - The House Rules Committee dealt ethics reform a major blow on Monday night by voting to send it back to its original committee.
• 4/19/2010: Newspaper Story - Senate Judiciary Committee hears bills to change DWI statutes and also assert state sovereignty
• 4/13/2010: Newspaper Story - Tougher limits on lobbying and contributions clear a House committee, but don't end questions about the bill's future.
• 4/ 8/2010: Radio Story - A portion of I-70 named after former St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire could be changed.
• 3/27/2010: Newspaper Story - Top priorities before Missouri's legislature remain unresolved in the final seven weeks of the session.
• 3/25/2010: Newspaper Story - With seven weeks left in the legislative session, the House Ethics Committee reports out an ethics bill.
• 3/15/2010: Radio Story - Belly dancers shake their stuff on the steps of the State Capitol to promote the Census.
• 3/10/2010: Newspaper Story - The focus of the FBI's investigation into potential corruption, former speaker Rod Jetton, testified before a grand jury in KC.
• 3/ 9/2010: Radio Story - A former Missouri House representative testified in front of a Kansas City Grand Jury about former Speaker Rod Jetton
• 2/24/2010: Newspaper Story - As home inspector bill moves through the House, some opponents claim deals have helped advance it
• 2/24/2010: Radio Story - Missouri has similar laws when it comes to pensions...
• 2/24/2010: Newspaper Story - A House committee discussed whether allowing state-funded cell phones makes private phone records public
• 2/24/2010: Newspaper Story - The Mo. Senate rejected ethics reform amendments that they are likely to see again in the House's bill
• 2/24/2010: Radio Story - Senate Republican leaders blocked a vote Wednesday night to halt the revolving door between lawmaking and lobbying.
• 2/24/2010: Radio Story - After discussion concerning per diem cuts in the House Administration and Accounts meeting Wednesday, many legislators wondered if the conversations on their reimbursed private cell phones would be public information.
• 2/22/2010: Radio Story - A St. Louis police commissioner has resigned to Gov. Jay Nixon, and a spokesman for the governor called it an appropriate step.
• 2/17/2010: Newspaper Story - As debate on ethics continued Wednesday in the Missouri Senate, some lawmakers worried the legislation might be going too far.
• 2/16/2010: Radio Story - The Missouri Senate heard a bill which would expand DNA testing to those arrested of robbery.
• 2/10/2010: Newspaper Story - After hours of debate and multiple amendments, state senators decided put a a high-profile ethics bill on hold.
• 2/10/2010: Radio Story - After hours of debate, the Missouri Senate decided Wednesday to put a high-profile ethics bill on hold.
• 2/ 8/2010: Newspaper Story - Missouri agriculture leadership is asking voters across the state to not sign 'puppy mill' initiative because of a slippery animal rights slope.
• 2/ 3/2010: Radio Story - A bill that would help prevent sexual orientation discrimination left Senators at a committee hearing silent.
• 2/ 2/2010: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Senate Judiciary Committee chair testifies before federal grand jury investigating the defeat of his 2005 anti-porn bill
• 2/ 2/2010: Radio Story - Republican Senator Matt Bartle testifies before Kansas City Federal Grand Jury
• 1/26/2010: Newspaper Story - Five different proposals were discussed on Tuesday that would drastically alter the state's campaign finance rules.
• 1/19/2010: Newspaper Story - Gov. Jay Nixon will lay out his budget and policy proposals for the 2010 legislative session.
• 1/ 6/2010: Newspaper Story - The 2010 legislative session begins will calls for ethics form