by admin | Apr 28, 2000 | Transportation
If you borrow money to buy it now…you might not have enough money to afford something else later. That fundamental argument becomes the focus of a two-billion dollar road-building proposal. A two-billion-dollar bond issue to build roads and bridges is weaving...
by admin | Apr 28, 2000 | Health / Medicine
A Tobacco Trust Fund would be created under a bill approved by the House. But it is much different than the Senate proposal. The bill has been weighted down by amendments numbering in the double-digits, few having anything to do with creating a fund to capture the...
by admin | Apr 28, 2000 | News
The final agreements will be signed today getting the Kansas City YWCA out of the child-care business. The YWCA once ran 14 child care centers in the Kansas City area, but has had lingering financial problems. The Y-M-C-A is taking over most of those programs. It...
by admin | Apr 28, 2000 | Crime / Courts
Hollister resident Trevor Jones is charged with murdering a Branson motel clerk, and might be linked to an earlier shooting that left a Branson man with a face wound. He has not been charged in that case, but a police spokesman says there are no other suspects in that...
by admin | Apr 28, 2000 | Health / Medicine
A new research center is being set up to determine if herbal supplements and related products really can improve your health and well being. The University of Missouri, the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, and the National Institutes of Health are teaming up...
