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1998 Liberities Stories

• 12/ 1/1998: Radio Story - Senator Peter Kinder (R-Cape Girardeau) has prefiled a bill that would make it a Class A felony to perform a partial-birth abortion in Missouri.
• 11/10/1998: Newspaper Story - A proposed site for a new maximum security prison near Jefferson City is treading on the burial grounds of the Osage Tribe.
• 11/ 5/1998: Radio Story - Missouri's only woman top legislative leader is replaced by House Democrats.
• 10/22/1998: Newspaper Story - Proposition A would make it a class D felony to bait or fight animals.
• 10/22/1998: Radio Story - Proposition A which would outlaw Missouri cockfighting will be a ballot item during the November third election.
• 10/ 7/1998: Newspaper Story - If Pres. Bill Clinton were a Missouri government employee, his relations with Monica Lewinksky could have cost him his job.
• 10/ 6/1998: Radio Story - Some state executive departments prohibit sexual relationships between some kinds of co-workers; others do not.
• 9/ 8/1998: Radio Story - Gun advocates already have started their concealed weapons campaign, eight months before the statewide vote.
• 9/ 8/1998: Radio Story - Story is about April 6, 1999 Right to Carry Concealed Weapons vote.
• 5/15/1998: Newspaper Story - The legislature gave final approval to a desegregation bill proponents hope will end two decades of court-ordered payments to the St. Louis and Kansas City school districts.
• 5/ 8/1998: Newspaper Story - Concealed weapons lands at the bottom of the Senate agenda for the last week of the session.
• 5/ 6/1998: Newspaper Story - The House comfortably passed the Senate version of a bill that would keep funding from clinics that perfrom or promote abortions.
• 5/ 5/1998: Newspaper Story - Student curators could attend closed-door board meetings under an amendment offered by Sen. Ken Jacob and passed by the Senate.
• 5/ 4/1998: Radio Story - The bill is designed to resolve the St. Louis school desegregation case. The money would come from property or sales taxes in St. Louis
• 4/29/1998: Newspaper Story - The drive to allow Missourians to carry concealed weapons is plowing ahead in the last weeks of the legislative session.
• 4/29/1998: Radio Story - A senior black legislator announces his opposition to the desegregation bill.
• 4/23/1998: Newspaper Story - The House approves putting the concealed weapons issue on the state ballot.
• 4/22/1998: Newspaper Story - The Senate Judiciary committee sat through hours of testimony on a bill that would outlaw a controversial late-term abortion procedure.
• 4/22/1998: Newspaper Story - Democrats fended off Republican attempts to separate desegregation money for St. Louis and Kansas City in the desegregation bill that passed the House Education Committee.
• 4/22/1998: Newspaper Story - Missourians would vote on the right to carry concealed weapons under legislation moving smoothly through the House.
• 4/22/1998: Radio Story - The Senate Judiciary Committee hear testimony for and against partial-birth abortion.
• 4/21/1998: Radio Story - Your insurance committee would not be able to use your genetic information against you under a bill passed by the state House Insurance Committee.
• 4/21/1998: Radio Story - The desegregation bill takes another step forward but the hired gun for the St. Louis City School Board says the bill still needs some work.
• 4/20/1998: Newspaper Story - With a 30-3 vote, the Missouri Senate passed legislation to keep state funds away from family planning clinics that perform abortions. A judge found similar laws unconstitutional in 1996 and 1997.
• 4/15/1998: Radio Story - The settlement coordinator in the St. Louis school desegregation case testified in support of Senate-passed legislation.
• 4/15/1998: Radio Story - St. Louis City School Board Members came out to defend their reputation at a state House Education Committee hearing of the Senate's desegregation bill.
• 4/14/1998: Radio Story - The NAACP urges lawmakers to change the bill passed by the Senate to settle the court-ordered school desegregation case.
• 4/ 9/1998: Newspaper Story - Widespread support has all but drowned out the voice of dissent in the emotionally charged issue of locked sex offenders up indefinitely -- an issue promoted by the governor and apporved by both the House and Senate.
• 4/ 8/1998: Radio Story - A partial-birth abortion bill is passed by the House without the health exception Governor Carnahan supported.
• 4/ 7/1998: Radio Story - While the state Senate was passing the desegregation bill, the governor endorsed a provision to give him a bigger voice over St. Louis city schools.
• 4/ 1/1998: Radio Story - The Missouri House gave overwhelming first-round approval to a partial-birth abortion ban almost identical to what the governor vetoed last year.
• 4/ 1/1998: Newspaper Story - The House votes to ban partial-birth abortions.
• 4/ 1/1998: Newspaper Story - A House committee probably won't vote on a bill that would protect homosexuals from discrimination.
• 4/ 1/1998: Radio Story - The Senate approved a provision of the desegregation bill that would allow parents living in Kansas City and St. Louis' urban districts to send their children to charter schools.
• 4/ 1/1998: Newspaper Story - A plan to entice a settlement in the St. Louis desegregation case is approved by the Senate.
• 4/ 1/1998: Newspaper Story - Black legislators complain the House leadership does not appoint enough blacks to House management jobs.
• 3/31/1998: Radio Story - Missouri would get 25 million dollars for school transportation under an amendment added to the Senate desegregation bill.
• 3/31/1998: Radio Story - A bill that would prevent discrimination against homosexuals in the workplace goes before the House Judiciary committee, but it may be too late.
• 3/30/1998: Newspaper Story - Senator Joe Maxwell, D-Mexico, stalled a vote on a bill which would end quota-based affirmative action. This action in combination with the lateness of the session could effectively kill debate on the issue.
• 3/26/1998: Newspaper Story - Missourians would be able to carry concealed weapons under a bill passed by a Missouri House Committee. Inclucded in the bill is a referendum that would allow voters to approve the measure.
• 3/26/1998: Radio Story - The House Corrections Committee voted to let the people decide whether concealed weapons should be permitted in Missouri. If the Legislature approves, the state-wide vote would occur in April of next year.
• 3/25/1998: Newspaper Story - The concealed weapons issue is scheduled for a House committee vote Thursday.
• 3/23/1998: Newspaper Story - A Senate bill that would end race and sex preferences in state contracting, education and employment met with opposition in a hearing Monday.
• 3/12/1998: Newspaper Story - Legislators want to create local government-run family planning agencies, which would be prohibited from performing abortions.
• 3/12/1998: Newspaper Story - Background on a bill to stop marketers from using motor vehicle records.
• 3/12/1998: Radio Story - Republican Representative Pat Kelley has introduced a bill that would pay male-female couples one-thousand dollars for signing and abiding by a family and parenting values affidavit.
• 3/11/1998: Newspaper Story - Any sexual contact between prison inmates and guards would be a felony under a bill heard by a House committee.
• 3/11/1998: Radio Story - A conservative Representative's surprise proposal caused some hand-wringing by abortion rights supporters in the House.
• 3/11/1998: Newspaper Story - A House Committee hears testimony concerning a bill that would make chemical castration a parole requirement for some sex offenders.
• 3/10/1998: Newspaper Story - The Senate gives first-round approval to an alternative to mandating English has an official language.
• 3/10/1998: Radio Story - The Senate votes to establish grants for English-language education programs.
• 2/27/1998: Newspaper Story - The Senate leader on gambling issues sponsors legislation to legalize boats in moats.
• 2/26/1998: Newspaper Story - Bills to ban partial birth abortion will have more than just practical implications.
• 2/25/1998: Radio Story - A bill proposed by the legislature's only gay member would repeal laws making homosexual acts a crime.
• 2/25/1998: Radio Story - A House committee debates whether to decriminalize the state's laws against homosexual act.
• 2/25/1998: Newspaper Story - The debate over partial-birth abortion began anew Wednesday night in a Missouri House of Represntatives Committee hearing.
• 2/24/1998: Radio Story - The House Insurance Committee votes to ban insurance companies using genetic testing to set rates.
• 2/19/1998: Newspaper Story - Gov. Carnahan continues his criticism of the desegregation funding bill before the Senate -- calling it too expensive.
• 2/19/1998: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers propose a commission to study pollution in low income and minority communities.
• 2/19/1998: Radio Story - Governor Carnahan says he still doesn't like the desegregation bill narrowly passed by the Senate Education Committee Wednesday.
• 2/18/1998: Newspaper Story - The Senate Education Committee reverses itself and passes a school-desegregation funding bill, after tacking on extra funds for non-city schools.
• 2/17/1998: Radio Story - Missouri's governor is criticizing the school desegretation plan stalled in the Senate Education Committee.
• 2/13/1998: Newspaper Story - Speaking ill of your groceries could cost your money under a proposal before Missouri's legislature.
• 2/12/1998: Newspaper Story - A controversial $1,000 extra in funding for pupils in the St. Louis and Kansas City schools plus the governor's invisibility on the desegregation issue helped contribute to the bill's defeat.
• 2/12/1998: Radio Story - The Senate Education Committee votes down a proposal to guarantee more funds to St. Louis schools in an effort to end court-ordered desegregation.
• 2/11/1998: Newspaper Story - A House committee cuts the governor's proposed funding for software to keep Internet porn away from school children.
• 2/10/1998: Radio Story - The House majority leader says anti-abortion lawmakers pressure her into dropping sponsoring a milder form of the ban on partial birth abortions.
• 2/10/1998: Newspaper Story - Appeals by the St. Louis school desegregation settlement coordinator fails to budget rural opposition to the desegregtion bill.
• 2/ 5/1998: Radio Story - Summer school for those who flunk school in St. Louis was proposed to the Senate Education Committee as part of the deseg bill.
• 2/ 4/1998: Newspaper Story - The senator who cast the vote that sustained Gov. Mel Carnahan's veto of a partial-birth abortion measure has sponsored a nearly identical bill. She said the language in last year's bill was to vague.
• 2/ 4/1998: Radio Story - A woman's testimony before a House committee prompts an investigation into alleged sexual harrassment of female prison guards.
• 2/ 4/1998: Radio Story - A stipulation that would allow the St. Louis Mayor to pick the School Board is part of a settlement being negotiated in the desegregation case.
• 2/ 4/1998: Newspaper Story - Suburban school superintendents whose districts don't get any desegregation funds told the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday that their schools needs attention, too.
• 2/ 4/1998: Radio Story - St Louis County Senator Betty Sims sponsors a measure calling for a partial birth abortion ban even though she helped defeat a similar bill last year.
• 2/ 4/1998: Radio Story - Tempers flared at the Capitol Wednesday as legislators and educators debated whether to give city schools an extra $1,000 per child.
• 2/ 3/1998: Radio Story - A task force has filed an amendment to forbid discrimination based on sexual orientation.
• 2/ 3/1998: Radio Story - The Governor's office will not launch an independent investigation of the charges at this time.
• 1/29/1998: Radio Story - Missouri lawmakers hear it will take a pile of cash to get the federal court out of the St. Louis school system.
• 1/29/1998: Newspaper Story - Missouri abortion clinics continue a high level of security following the bombing of an abortion clinic Thursday in Birmingham, Ala. Activitis on both sides condemn the bombing.
• 1/29/1998: Radio Story - Mid-Missouri Planned Parenthood Clinics are keeping security on high alert after bombing in Birmingham.
• 1/28/1998: Radio Story - Senators in the Ways and Mean committee debate whether it is constitutional for the state to give tax cuts for religious purposes, but not for tuition for religious schools.
• 1/28/1998: Radio Story - Columbia Representative Chuck Graham's bill would make it a felony for Missourians to record phone conversations without the other party's consent.
• 1/28/1998: Radio Story - This week, college interns working at the state capitol complete a sexual harassment seminar.
• 1/28/1998: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers were told by a federal court mediator that the state will have to spend more money to end court-ordered school desegregation.
• 1/26/1998: Newspaper Story - Plaintiffs could sue those who make "false and defamatory" statements about agricultural producers or their products.
• 1/22/1998: Radio Story - Representative Chrismer got emotional while discussing the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
• 1/22/1998: Newspaper Story - Bill proposed to direct Medicaid funds to individuals with disabilities for in-home care.
• 1/21/1998: Radio Story - Governor Carnahan wants funding for Missouri schools to purchase software that regulates Internet use.
• 1/21/1998: Newspaper Story - Carnahan said his proposal would help schools purchase software that would block kids from accessing "inappropriate sites." Some are critical of the effectiveness of that software.
• 1/19/1998: Radio Story - The debate over Missouri's state language hinges on one word. English as the "official" state language has fizzled in past bills, but a new proposal calls it the "common" language. Missourians voiced their concerns to lawmakers.