Jack Stapleton Jr.
NewsDecember 27
NOVEMBER TOUGH ON RIVERBOATSJEFFERSON CITY -- For the first time since riverboat gambling began in Missouri in May 1994, both monthly admissions and profit registered declines in November. Only one of the seven casinos in the state showed an increase in both categories. A computer-generated a...NewsDecember 16
MEDICAID REFORM PLANS MOVE AHEADJEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri's efforts to make major changes in its Medicaid program and reduce its annual $2 billion costs are progressing better than originally expected. That's the view of officials in the Missouri Department of Social Services, the huge Jefferson...NewsDecember 12
STATE SENATE CONSERVATIVE RESISTS BONDS FOR HIGHWAYSJEFFERSON CITY -- The campaign to sell state lawmakers on a $500 million highway construction bond issue has lost a passenger: Sen. Emory Melton, a 23-year veteran legislator whose fiscal conservatism has often led the General Assembly on a right turn...NewsDecember 2
METRO AREAS HIGH ON HIGHWAY MONEY LISTJEFFERSON CITY -- When it comes to where highway tax dollars are being spent, Missouri's two metropolitan areas are in the fast lane, with more than a fourth of the state's counties facing a 45-month project detour. A computer analysis of the current $2.6 billion h...NewsNovember 17
NEW HIGHWAY PLAN FACES ROADBLOCKSJEFFERSON CITY -- A three-year, $2.6-billion state highway program may encounter some bumpy traveling before it reaches its destination at the end of 1998. The ambitious construction program, announced recently by the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department'...NewsNovember 15
MISSOURI AMONG 20 STATES WITH CHARTER SCHOOLSJEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri is among 20 states experimenting with charter schools, a concept that provides additional funding to public schools, grants funded programs academic and administrative autonomy, and empowers them to adopt their own curriculums...NewsNovember 12
UNIQUE HOUSING PROGRAM TURNS 50LILBOURN -- This month marks the 50th anniversary of the formation of a unique, nonprofit housing group that assumed ownership and management of 600 low-rent housing units in 10 villages in five Southeast Missouri counties. Delmo Housing Corp., which was organized ...NewsOctober 26
FARM EXPORTS ADD $1 BILLION TO STATE ECONOMYJEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri's farmers have become a vital part of an effort to enhance the economy through increased export sales, says a just-released report by the state Department of Agriculture. Farmers in the state now account for $1 of every $5 in goods export...NewsSeptember 21
MISSOURI INITIATES REFORMS TO WELFARE AHEAD OF CONGRESSJEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri's Department of Social Services has implemented several welfare reforms even before Congress agrees to a series of welfare reforms, given a major boost by House Speaker Newt Gingrich's Contract with America. Such welfare correctives as ma...NewsSeptember 13
SMALL STRIDES FOR STATE BOOT CAMPJEFFERSON CITY -- The Missouri Department of Corrections is looking for a few (not-so-good) men. State prison officials haven't turned Marine recruiters, but they are now studying ways to secure more qualified recruits for what is known as the Regimented Discipline...LOAD MORE
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