by admin | May 4, 2004 | News
A House committee has voted 20-0 to send a bill to add cell phones to Missouri’s No Call list to the full House. The Committee on Communications, Energy and Technology is calling for the full House to follow the lead of the Senate, which approved the measure in...
by admin | Nov 21, 2003 | News
That telephone call to a soldier in Iraq might bring a big surprise after you hang up. A complaint to the Public Sservice Commission says a Missourian calling a relative in Iraq thought the bill would be about one-dollar a minute, the charge the telephone company...
by admin | Oct 3, 2003 | Education
Students at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin could soon be taking graduate programs from Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville. They’ll be taking the courses through television or over the Internet. The agreement between the schools lets...
by admin | Sep 29, 2003 | Crime / Courts
The Public Service Commission says secrecy is one way to protect domestic abuse victims. Consider this scenario: an abused wife calls a domestic abuse hotline. Later, somebody from the domestic abuse shelter calls back but the abused woman is not at home. Later, her...
by admin | Jul 3, 2003 | News
Two big cell phone companies have struck a deal with the state of Missouri to change their bills. After this, customers will know what parts of their bills are taxes and what parts are add-on charges. The Attorney General had gone after Nextel and Sprint, charging...
