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MNH News Nuts for the Week of April 11, 2011
April 15, 2011 MNH News Nut: Mo. Conservation Department is counting bears JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Conservation is tracking the numbers and movements of the state’s black bear population. Jeff Beringer, MDC resource scientist, has been leading a research team’s trapping operations in southwest Missouri for the past month and a [...]
SEDALIA, Mo. — In Missouri, the place to be this week is at the State Fair. And if you’re a Missouri politician, the place to be Thursday morning was the annual Governor’s Ham Breakfast. A crowd of about 1,000, including candidates for office, political operatives, lobbying groups, legislators, former legislators, staffs and campaign volunteers, attended [...]
Continue reading …Auditor Lauds Improved Sex Offender Tracking, Though Some Non-Compliance Issues Loom
August 19, 2010 No CommentJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee complimented the Highway Patrol and the Missouri Department of Public Safety for their efforts in improving the efficacy of the states’ sexual offender registration list. Montee issued an audit of the program as a follow up to a 2002 audit that found 36 percent of the [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Highway Patrol is taking to the road and the racetrack to campaign against driver texting. The campaign – launched in partnership with NASCAR and the Con-Way Freight trucking company – follows failure to wrest more aggressive laws against the driver texting from legislative [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Continued bands of strong thunderstorms across the northern part of the state have prompted Gov. Jay Nixon to continue an emergency declaration through August 19. Missouri’s unusually rainy summer lead to flooding along the Missouri River basin, prompting Nixon on June 21 to declare a statewide state of emergency. That order [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Active dialogue between the governor’s office and state lawmakers ultimately enabled changes to state pension plans that supporters say will save the state $662 million in the next decade. Gov. Jay Nixon on Monday signed the bill, which the administration said would garner enough savings [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Citing a still uncertain state economy, Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday announced $301.4 million in cuts to the fiscal year 2011 state budget. The cuts are in addition to more than $300 million state legislators made to the governor’s original budget plan during the just-completed [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – While many lawmakers decried the dangers of texting while driving early in the 2010 General Assembly, the legislature adjourned without any floor debate on a wholesale texting-while-driving ban. Initial committee hearings for banning bills looked promising for the measure. A House safety committee and Senate [...]
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