Archive for November, 2011
Nov 23 – Weekly Capitol Update
NEW FORMULA DROPS MISSOURI’S GRADUATION RATES Missouri’s high school graduation rate for the 2010-2011 school year dropped by 6.6 percentage points under a new federally imposed formula for calculating such rates. Under the old method, Missouri’s graduation rate for 2011 was 86.4 percent; the recalculated rate is 79.8 percent. The new formula is intended to [...]
Nov 17 – Weekly Capitol Update
MoDOT’S I-70 TOLL PROPOSAL GETS MIXED RESPONSE The Missouri Department of Transportation’s push for legislative approval of its new plan to rebuild Interstate 70 and convert it to a toll road won praise for innovative thinking from a legislative committee but also skepticism as to whether Missourians would accept tolling of the state’s primary east-west [...]
House Hearings To Be Held on Mamtek
As a member of the House Interim Committee on Government Oversight and Accountability, Rep. Chris Kelly will participate in a planned two-day hearing on the recent Mamtek failure in Moberly. The hearing will be held in late November. Witnesses before the panel include Economic Development Department Director David Kerr, Moberly Mayor Bob Riley, Moberly Area [...]
Nov 10 – Weekly Capitol Update
FATHER OF THE HANCOCK AMENDMENT DIES AT AGE 82 Former U.S. Rep. Mel Hancock, the author of a landmark 1980 amendment to the Missouri Constitution that restricts how the state collects and spends tax revenue, died in his sleep in the early hours of Nov. 6 at his home in Springfield. He was 82. Hancock [...]
Nov 3 – Weekly Capitol Update
HIGH COURT HEARS CHALLENGES TO LAWSUIT DAMAGE CAPS The Missouri Supreme Court on Nov. 2 heard arguments in a pair of cases that separately challenge provisions state law that cap financial damages that can be awarded to successful plaintiffs in lawsuits. Both cases claim the caps, which the Republican-controlled General Assembly imposed in 2005, violate [...]
