Fruit growers battle to protect plants from pests, diseases during planting season (AUDIO)
Growing fruit is a labor of love that can be a constant battle against bacterial diseases, fungi, and insects during the Spring planting season. Horticulture specialist Michele Warmund with the University of Missouri Extension suggests that folks plant disease resistant fruit plants to prevent pests and a common bacteria known as fire blight, which occurs early in the Spring planting season. Warmund says weather can be a factor in how susceptible plants can become to fire blight. "Cool, … [Read More...]
Lawmakers split on significance of school intervention bill
Lawmakers disagree on how much impact an education bill that has been sent to the Governor will have. The bill would lift the current two-year wait for the state to intervene in a school district that has become unaccredited. It would let the state replace the failed district's school board, or allow it to keep operating under new rules and conditions. The lack of a clause to make it effective before August 28 could mean it will have little impact in Kansas City, where public schools … [Read More...]
What if the Lieutenant Govenor leaves?
Peter Kinder remains Missouri's Lieutenant Governor. But the possibility earlier this year that he would not has led to a possible new law. Some people started reading the Missouri Constitution when the possibility arose that Kinder might be elected the new congressman from southeast Missouri, leading to his resignation from his present job. The last time a Lieutenant Governor vacated the office was when Roger Wilson became Governor upon the death of Governor Carnahan. He appointed state … [Read More...]
Delay in corn planting season could cause decline in corn yields (AUDIO)
Rainfall and cold temperatures have caused delay in the corn planting season and a worry for corn producers looking to plant their crops. University of Missouri Extension corn specialist Brent Myers says the optimal planting window for corn producers in Missouri is about a month long and ranges from the second week of April to the end of the first week in May; but due to excessive rainfall and cold temperatures, it's pushed the corn planting season back further than producers would … [Read More...]
Bryce’s Law, meant to help get treatment for autistic children, sent to the Governor (AUDIO)
Legislation meant to help the families of children with autism and other disorders has reached the Governor's desk, in the eighth year it has been offered. Representative Dwight Scharnhorst (R-St. Louis) named Bryce's Law for his grandson, who died in 2007 of complications related to autism and epilepsy. It would create a grant program that parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, Angelman syndrome or cerebral palsy could apply for to help cover the cost of … [Read More...]
Legislature
House Republican, Democrat leaders split on session value (VIDEO)
The leaders of the two major parties in the House have opposite assessments of the 2013 legislative session. 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 [...]
