by admin | Aug 21, 2008 | Politics / Govt
Next time, the US Army Corps of Engineers might allow farmland to be flooded, on purpose. The Corps has devised a plan to prevent the massive flooding that took out cities and towns, wiped out crops and devastated the upper Mississippi River earlier this year. The...
by admin | Nov 3, 2006 | Weather
Hydroelectric power barely trickles from Bagnell Dam at The Lake of the Ozarks as Ameren U-E tries to conserve water. Plant Superintendent Phil Thompson says the lake is experiencing its fourth-straight year of drought. Thompson says the plant relies soley on the...
by admin | Jul 27, 2006 | Business, Transportation
Attorney General Jay Nixon has sent a letter to the United States Army Corps of Engineers in which Nixon claims the Corps has reneged on its promise to keep a deep enough channel in the Missouri River to keep barges afloat. Nixon says the Corps has allowed the...
by admin | Jul 26, 2006 | Business, Politics / Govt
The Missouri Gaming Commission meets with its new leader for the first time today. Former St. Louis County Executive Gene McNary admits he knows little about the gaming industry, that the only time he’s been in a Missouri casino was for a business meeting when...
by admin | Jul 24, 2006 | Business, Transportation
The United States Army Corps of Engineers is draining water out of three lakes in Kansas to keep enough water in the Missouri River for barges to operate. That water supplements releases from the big upstream dams, where water levels already are 30-feet below normal....
