Get Tough With Drug Pusher Bill Moves In Missouri House
Blue Springs Democrat Glenn Binger urged a House panel to back a measure imposing 15 years to life for selling or delivering any drug to someone under 18 with no parole or probation. An amendment excludes marijuana from the harsher penalties, while probate code reforms and tougher assault penalties also drew attention.
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Jefferson City
Blue Springs
Glenn Binger
House
Susanne Night
Bingen
Binger
House Judiciary Committee
Kansas City man named to Missouri revenue post
James T. LePage, 43, a Kansas City bank consultant, was named head of Missouri Department of Revenue tasked with tax collection and licensing. Phillip J. Sweeney, 42, an Illinois lawyer living in St. Louis County, was named chairman of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission over unemployment compensation.
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Jefferson City
Joseph P. Teasdale
Department of Revenue
Labor and Industrial Relations Commission
James T. LePage
Kansas City Bank
Revenue Department
Phillip J. Sweeney
Illinois
St. Louis’ County
Revenue Director Linked to Midwest Institute and Law Career
Revenue Director claims he serves as a consultant to the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City and runs his own bank consulting business. He holds a economics degree from St Louis University and taught at Rockhurst College in Kansas City for 15 years. Sweeney attended St Louis University and earned a law degree in 1962. He works at Keefe and DePauli near Belleville and has served as assistant circuit attorney and as a lawyer in the St Louis Division of Workmen's Compensation.
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LePage
Midwest Research Institute of
Kansas City
St. Louis University
Rockhurst College
Sweeney
Keefe and DePauli
Belleville
St. Louis
Workmen's Compensation
Statewide Meramec Vote Tabled In House Committee
The Missouri House State Parks and Recreation Committee tabled the Meramec Dam referendum bill after executive session. Proposals to limit a statewide vote to 41 counties or to three counties were debated, with the 41-county amendment defeated 17-1 and a substitute bill tabled 11-8. The Senate version, favoring a regional 13 county vote, remains the active path.
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Jefferson City
State Parks and Recreation
Army Corps of Engineers
Ron Bockenkamp
Dionne Terre
Wayne Goode
Normandy
Ment
Bockenkamp
Senate
House
Harry Hill
Novinger
Ralph Jones
D-Overland
Crawford
Washington
Franklin
Jones
Meramec Dam
Soweto Schools Closed After Tear Gas Student Protests
South Africa orders full-day curfew for Soweto students as police disperse about six thousand demonstrators during exams. Brig. Jan Visser says schools reopen Thursday with classrooms closed to all during curfew hours 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Authorities warn tougher action for youths on streets.
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Soweto
South Africa
Jan Visser
Johannesburg
Soweto Exams Protests Over Language Policy
Police used tear gas and baton charges to disperse thousands of students at multiple Soweto high schools protesting exam disparities between white and black facilities. Books were burned at several schools. no casualties reported. Exams had been postponed last year due to anti-government demonstrations starting June 15 over Afrikaans language requirements in black schools.
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UN Wren
Soweto
Tough-talking bus driver as town marshal in small WA town
Paul Jackson, a 49 year old school bus driver, serves as town marshal in Law Center Washington on a 24 hour on call basis. He says the role gives him a legal reason to observe residents and assist with issues like suicides and marital problems. The 460 person town has seen car thefts and Jackson recalls past incidents including taking his own daughter to jail long ago.
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LA Center
Wash
Paul Jackson
Jackson
Perynekbon
Law In Law Center
North Vanridings
Drugs In Jail: Grand Jury Faults St Louis Workhouse
A St Louis Circuit grand jury charged the Workhouse houses drugs in jail and that 60 percent of men and 95 percent of women there are using drugs. It urged crackdowns on drug traffic including ending contact visits and periodic dormitory shakedowns.
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James Riley
Richmond Heights
Missouri
Robert S. Cohen
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R-Kirkwood
Missouri Boarding Home Association
House Public Welfare and Safety Committee
Steve Taylor
Glen Kallenbach
Ford Tractor
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John Deere
Crow
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Forney
Knipco
Ladies of Beaverdam Club
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Carl McCowan
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