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May 1998 Stories

• 5/15/1998: News summary for the week of May 11, 1998.
• 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.
• 5/15/1998: Newspaper Story - The Missouri General Assembly adjourned for the year. Highlights of bills it passed.
• 5/13/1998: Newspaper Story - Caseworkers in the trenches of welfare reform think psychology may be an obstacle for reform.
• 5/13/1998: Newspaper Story - The state government doesn't know where former welfare recipients are going, or how many are working.
• 5/13/1998: Newspaper Story - The General Assembly passed a $90 million tax cut which included provisions for families and the elderly.
• 5/13/1998: Newspaper Story - An expansion of Medicaid coverage using $56 million of federal payments and $20 million of matching state funds inched closer to Gov. Mel Carnahan's desk Wednesday.
• 5/ 8/1998: News summary for the week of May 4, 1998.
• 5/ 8/1998: Newspaper Story - Concealed weapons lands at the bottom of the Senate agenda for the last week of the session.
• 5/ 7/1998: Newspaper Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan twice paid a personal visit to Senate Republican floor leader Steve Ehlmann in an effort to increase the chances for passage of his child health coverage bill.
• 5/ 6/1998: Newspaper Story - The House of Representatives has rejuvenated efforts to provide tax cuts this year. It took a small Senate tax-cut bill and turned it into a $190 million package Wednesday.
• 5/ 6/1998: Radio Story - A man with HIV convicted of risking the infection of another man through unprotected sex before telling him he was HIV positive took his case to the Missouri Supreme Court.
• 5/ 6/1998: Newspaper Story - Ex-convicts teaching in Missouri schools would lose their certificates under a bill passed Wednesday by the Missouri House.
• 5/ 6/1998: Newspaper Story - For the second year in a row, Senate Republicans filibustered the governor's plan to expand medicaid coverage for children's health care.
• 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: Radio Story - The House Local Government Committee considers a bill that could charge St. Louis County residents as much as $12 a year to pay water line repair costs.
• 5/ 5/1998: Newspaper Story - The House passed the higher education appropriations bill, which included funds for UM. The four-campus system got less than the House wanted, but still nine percent more than last year.
• 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/ 5/1998: Newspaper Story - In a surprise move, Carnahan's early childhood care program became the first major measure to cleare the legislature.
• 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
• 5/ 4/1998: Radio Story - Despite Republican protests, the Missouri House approved a bill that would expand Medicaid to families with incomes up to three times the federal poverty level.
• 5/ 4/1998: Newspaper Story - Two of the governor's bills for children clear major hurdles in the legislature.
• 5/ 4/1998: Newspaper Story - A bill to switch Missouri to a presidential primary state is running into trouble.
• 5/ 4/1998: News summary for the week of April 27, 1998.