by admin | Apr 17, 2006 | Politics / Govt
Missouri has now passed the one-billion dollar mark in money resulting from the 1998 national tobacco settlement. But Attorney General Jay Nixon isn’t pleased with how the money from that settlement has been and is being spent. One of the main reasons for suing...
by admin | Jan 21, 2006 | Politics / Govt
The 2006 election year is just underway, and a poll centering on Missouri’s U.S. Senate race indicates a close battle between incumbent Republican Jim Talent and Democrat challenger Claire McCaskill, the current State Auditor. The survey, conducted earlier this...
by admin | Jan 12, 2006 | Health / Medicine
A compromise has been reached between the two organizations that had launched competing tobacco tax ballot initiatives. The Committee for a Healthy Future had begun collecting signatures with the primary aim of raising money for anti-tobacco efforts. The Alliance for...
by admin | Dec 20, 2005 | Politics / Govt
Competing tobacco tax initiatives prompt concerns from the group that got the ball rolling. The Committee for a Healthy Future was the first to file a tobacco tax initiative. This coalition – made up of such organizations as the American Lung Association, the...
by admin | Dec 19, 2005 | Politics / Govt
A second tobacco tax initiative could end up on next November’s ballot. The Missouri Alliance for Health and Justice has filed an initiative to amend the Constitution to increase the tax on tobacco by eighty cents a pack. Leslie Holt, with the Alliance, wants a...
