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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Bartle doubts donations will help this time

by Bob Priddy on February 4, 2010

in Business, Health & Medicine, Human Interest, Miscellaneous, Recreation & Entertainment

It’s been five years since Senator Matt Bartle’s effort to regulate adult businesses died in the House under circumstances that apparently interest a federal grand jury. Bartle’s new effort looks a lot like the old one. [click to continue…]

Tagged as: ethics reform

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Water Patrol recognized for high-tech tactics

by Jessica Machetta 02/4/10 7:22 PM

The best modern technology has to offer is being used by Missouri divers when something … or someone … is lost in the water.
The Missouri Water Patrol’s dive team was formed in 1979, when dive equipment by today’s standards was rudimentary. Now the team uses high-tech equipment in search and recovery. Sergeant Jerry Callahan says [...]

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Senate advances revived sex shop regs

by Bob Priddy 02/4/10 5:25 PM

Senator Matt Bartle talked about the issue to a federal grand jury in Kansas City Tuesday. Today he won preliminary approval of his bill regulating the adult entertainment industry. The bill has most of the provisions of the 2005 bill that cleared the Senate but was killed by a hostile House committee.

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House advances bill to strip TANF benefits from drug users

by Brent Martin 02/4/10 4:24 PM

A bill that would kick Missourians off a welfare program if they test positive for drugs has advanced in the House.
Do drugs; lose Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) money under HCS HB 1377 that advances in the House on a 113-to-40 vote. The bill would strip TANF money from anyone who tests positive for [...]

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National Guard deploys to Haiti with supplies, help to rebuild

by Jessica Machetta 02/4/10 1:48 PM

Missouri National Guard airmen are preparing to fly relief supplies to Haiti. Another crew heads to Arizona before aiding in reconstruction efforts.
State Adjutant General Steve Danner says eleven National Guard airmen have flown a C-130 to Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina. They deployed from Rosecrans guard base in St. Joseph.
Danner says the C-130 [...]

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