by admin | Apr 29, 2003 | News
Bills ranging from Life Sciences to restrictions on abortion funding pass the Missouri House and move on to the Senate. A bill earmarking 25-percent of the national tobacco settlement for Life Sciences wins broad support, with an effective date of 2007 when supporters...
by admin | Apr 23, 2003 | Crime / Courts
The $111-Million that tobacco companies will pay to about four-dozen Missouri lawyers who helped sue them have been upheld by a state appeals court. A couple of St. Louis County taxpayers have challenged the fee arrangement worked out between Attorney General Jay...
by admin | Apr 23, 2003 | News
Life science research at both public and private institutions in Missouri will get a $40-Million a year boost – eventually – under a bill moving forward in the House. Speaker Catherine Hanaway of Warson Woods sponsors the measure that would dedicate...
by admin | Feb 20, 2003 | News
A change in the plan to help the current state budget crunch and the future one gets a favorable response from House Speaker Catherine Hanaway. Hanaway says she is less concerned about the financial mechanism used than in limiting how much can be used to ease the...
by admin | Feb 19, 2003 | News
The State Senate has passed on the opportunity to go along with the Missouri House plan to authorize the sale of $150-Million in bonds to help ease the budget crisis for the remaining months of the current fiscal year. In its place, it has approved a proposal to sell...
