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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri timber producers and farmers, stung by the downturn in the housing industry, thought they could see light at the end of the tunnel with new advances in technology, and an emphasis in renewable energy. Now it turns out that light might be a train. [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Members of Missouri’s congressional delegation are on their way back to Washington D.C. to vote on a state stimulus package aimed at plugging holes in education and Medicaid budgets. The House will meet in special session Tuesday to vote on a measure passed by the Senate last week that will provide [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Hot weather and few surprises defined Tuesday’s primary Election Day in Missouri. A motivated activist vote fueled easy passage of the initiative to place Missouri’s constitution at odds with the new federal health care law. The measure carried more than 71 percent of total votes cast. Proponents cast 667,680 votes in [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The decorated war veteran wakes up in the back of his van and pushes down the road. Ahead, another stretch of highway or rural road. Another town. Another 200 hands to shake. Meetings with any kind of organized group he can find, constantly pushing his [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan is targeting challenger U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., in her “Stop the Bull” tour of Missouri. The two are widely touted as lead contenders in a field of 17 candidates vying for the U.S. Senate seat soon to be [...]
Continue reading …Special Session Must Include Wider Industry Considerations, Republicans Say
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – As Gov. Jay Nixon looks for a special legislative session to stimulate in-state auto manufacturing jobs, Republican lawmakers seek to widen the economic development net. As Ford Motor Co. (F) mulls cutting a few thousand workers and closing its manufacturing plant in Claycomo, Mo., other [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri’s U.S. Senate delegation will take opposite sides of a divisive vote Thursday to determine the federal government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases. At issue is a disapproval resolution that may be added to the Interior and Environment Appropriations bill that says the U.S. Environmental [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. –- A room full of politicians, special interest groups and farmers gave the Army Corps of Engineers an earful at a Tuesday-night hearing about its $25-million Missouri River Authorized Purposes Study. In short, the comments boiled down to two major points. First refrain: the study is [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri’s senior senator says Senate Democrats are playing politics with a tax credit program vital for the growth of the biodiesel industry in the United States. The $1-a-gallon tax credit for biodiesel producers expired at the end of 2009. It has not been renewed and [...]
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