Senate Panel Bans Secret Committee Votes in Missouri
The Missouri Senate Rules Committee approved 7-0 a House concurrent resolution to end secret voting in committees. The panel added a full disclosure requirement and ordered the committee chair to announce the vote after executive sessions, with a potential full Senate vote Wednesday.
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Donald Yeats
Columbia
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Missouri Senate advances billboard compromise bill
The Missouri Senate advanced a compromise billboard regulation proposal to avert 11.5 million in federal aid cuts. The plan requires the government to fund removal of billboards, with payments by billboard owners for permits and inspection fees, and a 75 percent federal share of removal costs. Landowners would be compensated. debate noted over state cost uncertainty and lobby influence.
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Bond enters governor race as Missouri Republican
State Auditor Christopher Bond declares his run for governor, saying government is a tragic charade for taxpayers. Bond, 32, promotes merit hiring, ethics, campaign spending limits, and education funding, positioning as third major GOP candidate alongside King and Burns with Euge also in the field.
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Kit) Bond
Bond
Jefferson
City tax statements mailed out by alphabetical order
City collectors began mailing 1971 city personal and real estate tax statements in alphabetical order. Taxes are due by March 31 with penalties starting April one percent per month from January 1. Total 1971 tax bill is 1,144,044.97, down from 1,401,526.08 in 1970 due to a one cent sales tax related valuation change.
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Ed Cole
Cole
Cedar City to vote on school merger
Cedar City residents will vote in April on annexation of their district by Jefferson City. Board members differ on the plan with Mayor Corley opposing annexation and some members supporting it to gain better opportunities. high school students currently attend Jefferson City Senior High. See CEDAR CITY, page 6
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Cletus Haid
Tontrd
Wallace Campbell
Geing
Campbell
Callaway County
South Callaway County
Lou Corley
Jefferson
Cecil Horn
Orley
Corley
Patsy Davidson
North Callaway
Jefferson City considers covered pool plan impact
Jefferson City Park Board and a City Council subcommittee discussed covering a new Ellis-Porter Park outdoor pool. The subcommittee backed a resolution seeking federal outdoor recreational aid to cover 50 percent of the pool's estimated cost over 300000, effectively ending the idea for the new pool but leaving room for possible future options to cover Community Pool.
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Council
Subcommittee
James Strong
Park Board
Strong
William Byrd
Census Officials Move St. Thomas On Official Map
St. Thomas in Cole County gains recognition after a late census count of 237 residents. Officials must certify the unofficial tally in Washington DC to create official records and unlock state gasoline tax rebates of about 130 to 150 dollars monthly for street work. Mayor Dan Schmidt said timely certification could yield February rebates and acknowledges past miscount despite a 3600 federal census cost.
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St. Paul Mini
Missouri
St. Thomas
Dan Schmidt
Schmidt
Tornado season opens with caution for February worst
Kansas City AP reports the National Weather Service marks the start of tornado season and warns February could mirror 1971, when 879 tornadoes struck the year and 157 people died. The four-tornado February 23 in the Mississippi Delta killed 121 in four hours.
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Allen Pearson
National
Mississippi Delta
Cary
Miss
Middleton
Tenn
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