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2010 Safety Stories

• 12/14/2010: Radio Story - Concussions can cause permanent injuries, but Missouri high schools are trying to be proactive in protecting their student athletes.
• 12/13/2010: Radio Story - Missouri Supreme Court Justice William Ray Price pushed for increased funding to drug courts.
• 12/ 6/2010: Radio Story - Deteriorating Ceiling in the House Chamber brings in construction workers to fix the problem before legislative session resumes.
• 12/ 2/2010: Newspaper Story - Opposition emerges to the governor's plan to require prescriptions for some cold medicines.
• 11/30/2010: Radio Story - The Insurance industry warns to protect your pipes or suffer thousands of dollars of damage
• 11/18/2010: Newspaper Story - Missouri WIC participants are less likely to be vaccinated for recommended childhood vaccinations compared to the national average of vaccinations.
• 11/17/2010: Radio Story - Officer Isabella Lovadina Becomes First Woman to Receive Medal for Heroic Acts
• 10/25/2010: Radio Story - Email alerts are being sent to neighbors who have registered to see where sex offenders live
• 10/19/2010: Radio Story - The Missouri Children's Services Commission says Missouri needs to change legislation to protect children.
• 10/18/2010: Radio Story - Missouri voters will get the chance to vote on a ballot proposal exempting disabled POW's from paying property taxes.
• 10/14/2010: Radio Story - Kansas City Public Television hosted the first debate between Missouri U.S. Senate candidates Robin Carnahan and Roy Blunt.
• 10/ 4/2010: Newspaper Story - Former Prisoners of War Seek More Benefits on Housing
• 9/23/2010: Radio Story - The man who intended to stab Gov. Jay Nixon has been assigned a public defender, a spokeswoman for the office said.
• 9/16/2010: Radio Story - Citing safety and compliance issues, Rep. Flanigan has plans in the works for new legislation to renovate the interior of the state's Capitol.
• 9/16/2010: Newspaper Story - Legislators are exploring renovation options for Missouri's Capitol building to improve safety and compliance issues.
• 9/15/2010: Newspaper Story - Experts say campus security reports are "almost impossible" to compare.
• 9/15/2010: Radio Story - The Daily Beast Blog named Missouri college campuses in the 450 most dangerous college campuses in America.
• 9/14/2010: Newspaper Story - Gov. Nixon canceled a news conference Tuesday after the dean of a college was stabbed in neck.
• 9/14/2010: Radio Story - Gov. Jay Nixon canceled his news conference at a Kansas City community college Tuesday after a dean's throat was slashed.
• 9/ 9/2010: Radio Story - Asian carp were originally brought to the United States in the 1970s to eat algae as a safe alternative to pesticides. In the wake of floods in the Deep South in the 1980s, they escaped off fish farms and swam north. Great Lakes Fishery Commission spokesman Marc Gaden (GAY-den) says the invasive species are now a permanent fixture on the Mississippi and Illinois River systems. Researchers are trying to create a pesticide that will kill the Asian carp, but not harm other organisms.
• 9/ 7/2010: Radio Story - Missouri's bridges rank 40th in the country, even as the state spends hundreds of millions of dollars to repair them.
• 9/ 2/2010: Radio Story - Armadillos have been spotted in every Missouri county, but the state's Conservation Department tells KMOX they're really quite harmless.
• 9/ 1/2010: Newspaper Story - Attorney General Chris Koster plans to examine Missouri's domestic violence laws in a series of meetings
• 9/ 1/2010: Radio Story - Attorney General Chris Koster created a task force to examine Missouri's domestic violence laws.
• 8/31/2010: Radio Story - Missouri's National Guardsmen deployed in Iraq won't be returning home early, even with the troop drawdown there.
• 8/31/2010: Radio Story - Sugar Creek is one of several Missouri counties now seeing speeder cameras placed on their streets.
• 5/17/2010: Radio Story - The age to conceal a gun would apply to people 21 years or older.
• 5/12/2010: Newspaper Story - Overview of legislative progress on May 12, 2010
• 5/ 5/2010: Newspaper Story - Senate passed K-2 ban without the House provision that makes possession of any amount a felony.
• 5/ 5/2010: Radio Story - Missouri Senators voted Wednesday to ban synthetic marijuana
• 5/ 4/2010: Newspaper Story - Senate committee passed a bill that allows legislators to carry packed pistols
• 4/26/2010: Radio Story - The Senate passed an amendment that would ban all red light cameras in Missouri.
• 4/20/2010: Radio Story - House Public Safety Committee Hears Arguments for and Against Banning Synthetic Marijuana
• 4/20/2010: Radio Story - Senator Brad Lager says steps are being taken to bring the resolution to the ballot boxes.
• 4/19/2010: Newspaper Story - Senate Judiciary Committee hears bills to change DWI statutes and also assert state sovereignty
• 4/19/2010: Radio Story - With less than four weeks left in the session the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed a bill over one of the biggest issues of the session.
• 4/13/2010: Radio Story - Proposed legislation redirects funds from red light camera fines to education funds.
• 4/ 7/2010: Radio Story - A lot of talk about how to save the state from its budget crisis, and Wednesday, the House moved forward and then backward on Gov. Nixon's plan to merge the state's Water Patrol.
• 4/ 7/2010: Newspaper Story - State control of departments took one step forward in the Senate and stagnated in the House after two committee hearings Wednesday.
• 4/ 7/2010: Radio Story - Missouri police would be able to get blood samples from DWI suspects under an amendment the House approved Wednesday.
• 3/25/2010: Newspaper Story - The House passed an omnibus judiciary bill covering conceal and carry rights, adoption records, personal privacy and Castle Doctrine
• 3/24/2010: Newspaper Story - The state Senate spent hours on Wednesday debating a health care bill that would allow Missourians to opt out of the insurance mandate
• 3/23/2010: Radio Story - Small groups of senators discussed budget changes related to crime policy in Missouri.
• 3/23/2010: Newspaper Story - Senate work sessions aim to address budget cuts
• 3/16/2010: Newspaper Story - Local government faces run in with state officials
• 3/ 3/2010: Newspaper Story - The House debated a bill which would make possession of any amount of K-2 a Class C felony.
• 3/ 3/2010: Newspaper Story - Radioactive gas found in Columbia now under investigation by the U.S. Attorneys office
• 3/ 3/2010: Radio Story - A synthetic marijuana-like substance goes to the House for debate.
• 3/ 2/2010: Radio Story - St. Louis Mayor Slay says the city should have the last word with the St. Louis City Police
• 3/ 2/2010: Radio Story - A house bill allowing for testing of carbon sequestration in Green County leaves many debating liability issues.
• 3/ 2/2010: Newspaper Story - The mayor of St. Louis supports legislation to localize control of the St. Louis police department while the St. Louis Police Officers' Association opposed.
• 2/23/2010: Radio Story - In the process of cutting five percent from the state budget, the Department of Corrections would be forced to close 2 prisons.
• 2/23/2010: Newspaper Story - Members of the House Budget Committee explored an unconventional method of boosting revenue within the state's Correction Department.
• 2/23/2010: Radio Story - More than 130 St. Louis City Police arrived in the Capitol to speak out against local control of their police department.
• 2/22/2010: Newspaper Story - Some errors have slowed the progress to ban K2 in Missouri, but bill's sponsor still expects it to pass
• 2/22/2010: Radio Story - The bill that will change laws regarding controlled substances took a step backward.
• 2/22/2010: Newspaper Story - The Senate Judiciary Committee heard no opposition to a proposed statewide smoking ban.
• 2/18/2010: Newspaper Story - A House appropriations committee rejects a call to trim five percent from the state's prison budget.
• 2/15/2010: Newspaper Story - 'Synthetic marijuana' could be banned if Senate has its way
• 2/15/2010: Radio Story - The St. Louis Mayor and police go head to head over a bill that would put the St. Louis Police Department under control of the city.
• 2/15/2010: Radio Story - The St. Louis Mayor and police go head to head over a bill that would put the St. Louis Police Department under control of the city.
• 2/10/2010: Radio Story - A two for one plan in treating sex diseases was presented to a committee of Missouri legislators Wednesday.
• 2/10/2010: Newspaper Story - A House bill would consider use of force by mental health workers as acts of self-defense.
• 2/10/2010: Radio Story - The use of force could be justified for caregivers in the case of self-defense.
• 2/ 9/2010: Newspaper Story - Committee members skeptic about increased ban on texting while driving .
• 2/ 9/2010: Radio Story - A House committee heard why student athletes who suffer concussions should be kept off the field at least briefly
• 2/ 3/2010: Newspaper Story - A statewide DWI tracking system would crack down on repeat offenders.
• 2/ 3/2010: Radio Story - House Speaker Pro Tem Bryan Pratt disagrees with Price; says criminals should stay in prison
• 2/ 2/2010: Radio Story - A Missouri Congressional candidate urges keeping the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy for gays
• 2/ 1/2010: Newspaper Story - A bill has been introduced which would bar felons from holding elected office in Missouri.
• 1/27/2010: Newspaper Story - The Senate Education Cmte. heard a bill that would expand the definition of bullying to cover texting and social networking.
• 1/26/2010: Radio Story - Enforcing New Texting While Driving Ban for Truck Drivers Will be Tough
• 1/ 5/2010: Radio Story - In a five-hour hour hearing, a Senate environmental committee hears testimony concerning E. Coli levels at the Lake of the Ozarks.