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February 1998 Stories

• 2/27/1998: News summary for the week of Feb. 23, 1998.
• 2/29/1998: Radio Story - As Oprah celebrates her victory in Amarillo, Missouri legislators may be shelving plans to pass their own version of veggie libel law.
• 2/27/1998: Newspaper Story - Plan to provide state-funded preschool in public schools is proposed in Missouri's legislature.
• 2/27/1998: Newspaper Story - Witnesses testify for and against making Missouri the 31st state with charter school legislation on its books.
• 2/27/1998: Newspaper Story - The Senate leader on gambling issues sponsors legislation to legalize boats in moats.
• 2/27/1998: Newspaper Story - Bill places restrictions on bounty hunters.
• 2/26/1998: Newspaper Story - Bills to ban partial birth abortion will have more than just practical implications.
• 2/26/1998: Newspaper Story - Child killers would face the possibility of death under proposed legislation.
• 2/26/1998: Radio Story - Yet another day of debate on the Senate floor delays a vote on the children's health care bill.
• 2/26/1998: Newspaper Story - GOP debate blocks action on two health-care bills - one in the House and the other in the Senate.
• 2/26/1998: Radio Story - For the third day, opposition debate stalls a House vote on legislation to assist small businesses in getting employee health insurance.
• 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 - Addressing concerns of lawmakers who believe anti-meth measures may go too far, state officials promise they will be reasonable in enforcing new powers granted by the legislature.
• 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 - Reginald Powell's final appeal to Governor Carnahan was rejected.
• 2/24/1998: Newspaper Story - The Linnemans and the McDowells told a house committee background checks on day care workers could have saved thier children's lives.
• 2/24/1998: Newspaper Story - Bill proposes loss of visitation for delinquent child support
• 2/24/1998: Newspaper Story - Increasing fees for selling alcohol proposed in Missouri's General Assembly.
• 2/24/1998: Newspaper Story - Bill would change vehicular homicide to vehicular manslaughter.
• 2/24/1998: Radio Story - The House Insurance Committee votes to ban insurance companies using genetic testing to set rates.
• 2/24/1998: Newspaper Story - Election reformers presented a plan to lawmakers this week that would give candidates public money to run for the statehouse.
• 2/24/1998: Newspaper Story - State representative proposes to restrict over-the-counter diet pills to persons under 21
• 2/23/1998: Newspaper Story - Members of the Public Service Commission would be elected at lower pay instead of appointed, under a bill being considered by the Missouri General Assembly.
• 2/23/1998: Newspaper Story - Sen. Walter Mueller wants to prohibit naming public buildings after people who are still in office.
• 2/23/1998: Newspaper Story - Longer jail time for smaller quantities of methamphetamine proposed.
• 2/23/1998: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers propose making it easier for adoptees to find out about their natural parents.
• 2/23/1998: Radio Story - A Senator from rural Missouri wants to make PSC Commissioners more accountable to the voting public.
• 2/23/1998: Radio Story - Bill proposes banning naming state buildings for living state officials.
• 2/23/1998: Newspaper Story - Embezzlers would have to pay restitution to their victims under proposed legislation.
• 2/22/1998: Newspaper Story - Another battle over tax breaks for private school costs in looming in Missouri's legislature.
• 2/20/1998: Newspaper Story - Riverboat gambling lawsuits are threatening funding for the governor's day-care program.
• 2/20/1998: Newspaper Story - Teachers added to collective bargaining for public workers.
• 2/20/1998: Newspaper Story - Several bills in the state legislature would increase penalties for drivers without insurance. Many people say these penalties don't address the real problem.
• 2/20/1998: Newspaper Story - Floodplain farmers and soil conservationists disagree about proposed Senate Bill.
• 2/20/1998: Newspaper Story - Uninsured drivers would face tougher penalities under legislation proposed to the state legislature.
• 2/20/1998: News summary for the week of Feb. 16, 1998.
• 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: Radio Story - Attorney General Jay Nixon says his office and the Missouri Gaming Commission should wait for a state Supreme Court ruling on boats-in-moats before moving forward in a dramatic fashion.
• 2/19/1998: Radio Story - The House methanphetamine bill has a provision that would pay cash for methanphetamine tips.
• 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: Radio Story - The Senate votes to give lawmakers a greater voice over highway funding.
• 2/18/1998: Radio Story - A House committee heard debate over legislation to give lawmakers a stronger voice over highway spending
• 2/18/1998: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers are asked to expand the law against sexual predators.
• 2/18/1998: Newspaper Story - Child-care hot line would track baby-sitters' criminal records.
• 2/18/1998: Radio Story - The Senate gives final approval to a crackdown on meth dealers.
• 2/18/1998: Newspaper Story - MU's President Manuel Pacheco told the Senate Appropriations Committee that the university has lost its place as a top-tier reserach university.
• 2/18/1998: Radio Story - Students enterin programs with a shortage of qualified employees could get state suppport under legislation presented to a committee.
• 2/18/1998: Newspaper Story - Legislation proposed to lower the limit for drunken driving.
• 2/18/1998: Radio Story - The Missouri House did not vote on a measure allowing carpool lanes to be set up.
• 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.
• 2/18/1998: Newspaper Story - Jackson County Prosecutor Claire McCaskill is running for state auditor even though she doesn't hold a CPA degree.
• 2/17/1998: Newspaper Story - The same day a bill to fund daycare programs at public schools, opposition stalled action on a similar measure in Senate committee.
• 2/17/1998: Radio Story - Governor Mel Carnahan's hails House passage of a bill to use gambling money to fund day care services by public schools.
• 2/17/1998: Newspaper Story - Voters could decide whether to nearly triple the state excise tax on some alcohol under legislation heard Tuesday by the House Ways & Means Committee.
• 2/17/1998: Newspaper Story - Rep. Chuck Graham's appearance on NBC's Today Show has been postponed because of network scheduling conflicts. The show hopes to get Graham on TV next week to discuss his organ donation bill.
• 2/17/1998: Radio Story - Missouri's governor is criticizing the school desegretation plan stalled in the Senate Education Committee.
• 2/17/1998: Radio Story - Criticism, confusion and concern about the authority of the Attorney General's office postponed a decision by the Missouri Gaming Commission.
• 2/17/1998: Newspaper Story - The House approves a means to fund a component of Mel Carnahan's program for daycare services at public schools.
• 2/16/1998: Radio Story - You could legally lose more than 500 per visit while gambling if the Committee on Gaming and Wagering gets its way.
• 2/16/1998: Newspaper Story - Legislation is filed to repeal the state's death penalty.
• 2/16/1998: Radio Story - New emissions testing for gasoline is proposed that will meet EPA regulations
• 2/16/1998: Newspaper Story - Legislation is filed to expand emergency medical services in Missouri.
• 2/16/1998: Newspaper Story - Drivers would be required to turn on their headlights in bad weather under legislation filed in Missouri's General Assembly.
• 2/13/1998: Newspaper Story - Legislation to crack down on methamphetamine tops the list of anti-crime issues before Missouri's 1998 legislature.
• 2/13/1998: Newspaper Story - Speaking ill of your groceries could cost your money under a proposal before Missouri's legislature.
• 2/13/1998: News summary for the week of Feb. 9, 1998.
• 2/12/1998: Radio Story - Teachers convicted of serious felonies would be automatically expelled from their classrooms, under a bill the House gave preliminary approval to.
• 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 - Missouri's small business employees are one step closer to being able to join the state's consolidated health care plan.
• 2/12/1998: Newspaper Story - Missouri government would get into the business of packaging health coverage plans for small-business workers under a measure heading to the full House for debate.
• 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 appropriations committee voted to increase funding for the University of Missouri system above what Gov. Mel Carnahan proposed in his budget.
• 2/11/1998: Newspaper Story - A House committee cuts the governor's proposed funding for software to keep Internet porn away from school children.
• 2/11/1998: Newspaper Story - The state Senate gave preliminary approval to a bill that would require car inspections once every three years instead of once per year.
• 2/11/1998: Newspaper Story - An extensive anti-methamphetamine bill won preliminary approval in the Senate, but a couple lawmakers voiced concerns about the possible impact on law-abiding citizens.
• 2/11/1998: Radio Story - The House Consumer Protection Committee approved a measure requiring ATM's to notify customers of fees.
• 2/11/1998: Newspaper Story - A bill that would ban ATM surcharges has been amended to only require ATMs to warn of such charges.
• 2/11/1998: Newspaper Story - A bill would allow psychologists to prescribe drugs.
• 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 - A $120 million property tax cut endorsed by Gov. Mel Carnahan emerged from the House Ways & Means Committee Tuesday.
• 2/10/1998: Radio Story - A compromise may be under way in the Senate to waive annual auto inspections for new cars.
• 2/10/1998: Radio Story - Missouri Police Chiefs Association makes eliminating methanphetamines a top priority.
• 2/10/1998: Radio Story - Proposed Missouri legislation to extend the stay of suspected felons has the full support of the Missouri Police Chiefs Association.
• 2/10/1998: Newspaper Story - A House appropriations committee is expected to vote on the governor's proposed budget for U.M. The proposed increase is one of the biggest in recent memory.
• 2/10/1998: Radio Story - Doctors told state lawmakers that hospitals aren't doing enough to protect hospital workers and patients.
• 2/10/1998: Newspaper Story - Appeals by the St. Louis school desegregation settlement coordinator fails to budget rural opposition to the desegregtion bill.
• 2/ 9/1998: Newspaper Story - Missouri is part of a Pentagon pilot program that would allow overseas citizens to vote through the Internet.
• 2/ 9/1998: Radio Story - Lawmakers are urged to block goverment retirement benefits to officials convicted of crimes like former House Speaker Bob Griffin.
• 2/ 9/1998: Newspaper Story - Legislation sponsored by Rep. Tim Harlan would make health insurance available to small businesses and farmers through the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan, which currently covers state employees and local government employees.
• 2/ 6/1998: News summary for the week of Feb. 2, 1998.
• 2/ 5/1998: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Riverboat Gaming Association is filing a $12 million lawsuit Friday in Cole County Circuit Court against the Missouri Gaming Commission. The suit contends the casinos are being double charged for enforcement of gaming laws and regulations.
• 2/ 5/1998: Radio Story - A national flue epidemic test was held in Missouri.
• 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: Radio Story - Legislation is proposed to impose a tax on wine to pay for wine promotion and marketing.
• 2/ 4/1998: Newspaper Story - MU administrators are scrambling to prepare for the senior assessment tests.
• 2/ 4/1998: Radio Story - State officials gave the capitol a closer look after a 300-pound stone fell outside Governor Carnahan's office. Annual inspections are being accelerated. Officials say the capitol is safe.
• 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 - Dona Carroll's husband may lose his job because of the requirement for officers to live in St. Louis.
• 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 - Death-row inmates could trade their kidneys for their lives under a proposal sponsored in Missouri's legislature.
• 2/ 4/1998: Newspaper Story - A Senate committee on Feb. 2 passed by a narrow margin a bill that allows student curators to attend closed board meetings.
• 2/ 4/1998: Newspaper Story - Federal, state and local officials met to discuss strategy and perform mock emergency plan implementation should a worldwide flu pandemic recur.
• 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: Newspaper Story - Chuck Graham proposed a bill that would stop companies from canceling your credit card if you keep it paid.
• 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: Newspaper Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan's property tax-cut bills were heard by the House Ways & Means Committee Tuesday.
• 2/ 3/1998: Radio Story - The State Corrections Department responds to allegations that guards mistreat female employees and inmates.
• 2/ 3/1998: Newspaper Story - Former Correction Department workers describe sexual allegations within state prisons.
• 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.
• 2/ 3/1998: Radio Story - Missouri to be a national test of how to handle any possiblee worldwide inluenza pandemic.
• 2/ 3/1998: Radio Story - St. Louis County Senator Anita Yeckel introduced a bill that would make behavior and staying in school a factor in whether minors can get a driver's license.
• 2/ 3/1998: Newspaper Story - The Senate Transportation Committee heard a bill Tuesday to lower the state's legal blood-alcohol content from 0.10 to 0.08.
• 2/ 2/1998: Newspaper Story - Misssouri's Secretary of State endorsed a presidential primary for the state at a legislative committee hearing.
• 2/ 2/1998: Radio Story - Sec. of State, Rebecca Cook has sponsored a bill that would establish a presidential primary in Missoui
• 2/ 2/1998: Radio Story - Expanded daycare programs were promoted by Missouri's first lady in her first-ever appearance before a legislative committee.
• 2/ 2/1998: Newspaper Story - In her first appearance before a legislative committee, he wife of Missouri's governor urged passage of a plan to offer daycare servicees at local schools.