May 21, 2013

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Missourinet Mornings–Mizzou baseball preview, Boggs homer pitch nearly lands in trash (VIDEO)

May 21, 2013 By

The Missouri Tigers face Mississippi State in their first SEC Tournament game…it’s a battle of the defending tournament champs. Mizzou won the Big 12 title last year and the Bulldogs won the SEC crown. Their head coach John Cohen was an assistant under Tigers head coach Tim Jamieson.

The Royals are 3-11 since May 6th. Their 6-5 loss to Houston last night was their seventh, one-run loss in that span.

Mitchell Boggs recall from Triple-A Memphis, nearly has a home run pitch deposited into a trash can at Petco Park as the Padres beat the Cardinals. I’ve got the video for you to watch.

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Missouri native witnesses Moore, Oklahoma tornado (VIDEO)

May 21, 2013 By

Park Hills native Nick McMillian was one mile away from the tornado that devastated much of Moore, Oklahoma yesterday afternoon.  He’s a student at Freewill Baptist College there.  Shortly after the tornado swept through town, he talked with his cousin, Stuart McMillian, at Missourinet affiliate KJFF, Festus.

AUDIO: Stuart & Nick

He also has posted video of the storm he shot

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Storm, debris hit Missouri

May 21, 2013 By

The storm system that produced the devastating tornado in Moore Oklahoma has brought debris into southwest Missouri, about 200 miles or more from Moore.  It also has brought some high winds, big hail, and heavy rains to various parts of the state. 

Joplin, which commemorates the second anniversary of its tornado tomorrow, is sending emergency first responders to Moore, where the death toll is now put at at least 51. Missouri Task Force One, based in Columbia, is readying supplies to send to Moore but has not been deployed.  Task Force One is a search, rescue, and recovery team that is mobilized for major disasters. 

The only confirmed tornado to cause damage in Missouri overnight hit Hannibal where  some roofs have bee torn off and homes have been damaged.  Emergency crews have been called in from neighboring counties.

Ameren reported about 5:30 this morning that 93-hundred customers are without power, mostly in the St. Charles and Franklin County areas and near Farmington.  Kansas City Power and Light has about 900 outages in the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Warrensburg areas as well as in Clinton, Nevada and Lamar areas, to the south.

Flash flooding has been reported in scattered areas with some observers reporting as much as two inches of rain in a short time.

We have no reports of injuries in any Missouri storm.

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House Republican, Democrat leaders split on session value (VIDEO)

May 21, 2013 By

The leaders of the two major parties in the House have opposite assessments of the 2013 legislative session.

House Speaker Tim Jones addresses the media at the close of the 2013 session (photo and videos courtesy: Missouri House Communications)

House Speaker Tim Jones addresses the media at the close of the 2013 session (photo and videos courtesy: Missouri House Communications)

Missouri’s Speaker of the House, Tim Jones (R-Eureka), calls the legislative session “historic,” and a success.

“We wanted to do more for the people so they would have more freedom and opportunity for themselves, and the more government you have the less freedom and opportunity the people have. This session, from beginning to end and everywhere in between, was about doing more for the people of Missouri.”

Jones highlights the passage proposals to cut individual and corporate income taxes and a fix to the state’s insolvent Second Injury Fund as key accomplishments. He also points to the House’s passage of tax credit reform legislation as a breakthrough, even though that bill didn’t reach the Governor.

“Remember, to this point the House was very adverse to doing major cuts to programs. I think we finally realized … if we have to be the body that has the stiff upper lip and is willing to sacrifice in order for the greater good, then we’ll do that.”

Jones has since before the session start touted a “Triple E” agenda that stressed economic development, energy policy and education. He says several key issues were passed falling under each of those categories.

House Minority Leader Jake Hummel (D-St. Louis) says he thinks those three “E’s” stood for “extremism,” and criticizes Republicans for passing legislation barring drone aircraft, the implementation of foreign laws in Missouri and making it a crime to enforce federal gun laws in Missouri.

He says the session was an “abject failure” because the legislature rejected Medicaid expansion.

“We failed to create 24,000 jobs under Medicaid, we failed to let billions of dollars of our taxpayer dollars come back from Washington to our state and we failed to put 300,000 Missourians back on healthcare … I considered it a failure three weeks ago.”

The session closed on Friday.

See the end-of-session media conferences from the House Republicans (top) and Democrats (bottom) below:

 

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Not enough government rules? Why?

May 21, 2013 By

It is not often that we hear members of the legislature complain that there are too FEW rules and regulations.  But that complaint has been raised by the chairman of a committee that specializes in state rules and regulations, Senator Eric Schmitt of Kirkwood, who heads the legislature’s Joint Committee on Administrative Rules.  The committee was set up in 1975 to keep state agencies from making rules and regulations without legislative scrutiny. Sometimes the rules committee rejects an agency proposal. 

But the legislature’s probe of the revenue department’s document scanning operation has opened the issue for investigation for Schmitt and his committee.  He says the number of rules set forth by the revenue department has shown a “dramatic” decline in the last two or three years.  He thinks there is a “growing trend” of agencies to do what they want to do and hope the legislature doesn’t notice. 

Lawmakers investigating the revenue department says it has changed the process for getting driver’s licenses without publishing a new rule.  Schmitt says the department finally has admitted it should have done that.  But he worries agencies operating in a term-limited world avoiding legislative oversight.  He targets natural resources and elementary and secondary education as other agencies that should have advocated rules for some of the things they’re doing, but haven’t. 

Schmitt says Jay-car, as the JCAR committee is called, is a check and balance on government growth.  He says agency failure to have rules reviewed by the committee weakens public confidence in government.

AUDIO: Schmitt

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