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Senate sends redistricting back to House (AUDIO)

April 13, 2011 By

The senate’s plan for eight new congressional districts has been approved, but not without some ruffled feathers.

Opposition to the House version of the new map stalled the process Tuesday.   But right after the senate’s afternoon session began yesterday, the sponsor brought up a new version of the bill, and moved into position for a final vote before the leading opponent got into the chamber.

Senator Bill Stouffer of Napton was in a press conference on another issue.  He had no way to introduce his proposed map. Afterwards he openly said, ‘I blew it.”

The senate version differs in several ways from the House version…and sponsor Scott Rupp of Wentzville says passage of it is a big step because senators let it be known they would not accept the House map….

Stouffer’s only hope now is if the House refuses to take the senate plan and asks for a compromise committee to draw something acceptable to both chambers.

Stouffer says he knows money is being put together in his counties to launch a legal challenge of a plan that lumps three rural central Missouri counties in a district with Kansas City.

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Census officials reach out to “hard to count”

January 17, 2010 By

April 1st is the day Americans will be called on to count themselves in and the effort to inform us of the importance of filling out and returning the 2010 U.S. Census forms is already in full swing. But a greater effort has been launched to reach a group of people known as the “hard to count.”

The “hard to count” includes quite a list. [Read more...]

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Total Census count critical to Missouri’s holding all nine congressional seats

January 13, 2010 By

State officials involved in the 2010 U.S. Census count are spreading the good word that the latest projections from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate Missouri will likely hold onto all nine of its Congressional seats. But those same officials caution Missouri will hold on by a razor thin margin.

“The projected population for Missouri was 6,022,430 people,” said Matt Hesser of the Office of Administration’s Division of Budget and Planning during an information seminar for State Senators at the Capitol. “We retain the seat by 5,271 people.” [Read more...]

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Census Figures Show Where St. Louis Sprawl Spreads

June 28, 2007 By

New census figures show St. Louis urban sprawl is growing rapidly, but nowhere faster than the city of Wentzville.  Wentzville ended the 20th century with 7,000 people.  The census bureau says the population is now almost 21,000.  But other cities in the collar-areas of St. Louis and St. Louis County also are growing quickly. O’Fallon’s population has increased 57% in the same period.  O’Fallon has grown by more people than live in Wentzville now; 26,000. Troy, in Lincoln County to the north, increased by 63 percent and now has 11-thousand people.

 

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Missouri’s Immigrant Population on the Rise

August 15, 2006 By

The Census Bureau says Missouri has 28 percent more immigrants living in it than it had when the 2000 Census was taken. That’s the 13th largest increase among all the states. The Census Bureau says 194,000 immigrants have moved here in the last five years. It does not try to determine their legal status.

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