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Missouri’s worst schools spotlighted

by Bob Priddy on March 12, 2010

in Education, Human Interest, Miscellaneous

The state has compiled a list of Missouri’s 52 worst schools.

Forty-nine of those schools are in the St.Louis and Kansas City metro areas. Three of the Kansas City schools are among those the school board voted earlier this week to close. The three outstate schools are Caruthersville Middle School, The Colgan Alternative Resource Center in St. Joseph, and the Hayti High School. [click to continue…]

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More bad news from the state budget office

by Bob Priddy 03/11/10 10:00 PM

More budget cuts now and even bigger ones to come will mean more cutbacks in state services, some of them right away. .
Governor Nixon has outlined his ideas for reducing spending in the next fiscal year by another $500-million. But before making that announcement, Nixon has authorized cutting another $126-million out of the budget for [...]

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Casino closing; license chase opening

by Bob Priddy 03/10/10 10:01 PM

A highly-prized state license soon will be open for competition…and it might be years before there’s another one.
Pinnacle Entertainment will give up its license to the President Casino in St. Louis by July first.The state gaming commission had told Pinnacle in January it would take away the license because the casino’s income has been dropping [...]

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Anti-death penalty advocates say Clemons case raises questions

by Bob Priddy 03/9/10 10:01 PM

The discovery of long-hidden evidence in a 19-year old murder case fuels hopes of death penalty opponents that the state will declare a moratorium on executions for two years. Reginald Clemons, Marlin Gray, and two others were convicted in 1993 of the rapes and murders of two St. Louis sisters who were thrown off a [...]

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Senate votes to dump the plate

by Bob Priddy 03/4/10 11:27 PM

The state Senate votes to save millions of dollars a year by getting rid of one piece of metal that most of us have to buy. Senator Matt Bartle wants to solve what he calls “a terrible inefficiency in our system,” with a move he says will save the state three million dollars a year.
Bartle [...]

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