Missouri Democrats Dispute Talent's Highway Proposal Missouri Democratic chairman Joe Carmichael says that Republican Gubernatorial candidate Jim Talent has a highway plan that is full of accounting errors. But he subsequently conceded his figures for the cost of the bond issue had been too low. The state prison system does not allow inmates to choose their long-distance carrier. They have to use MCI WorldCom, and can only call collect. State officials say it is economical.
Doctors call on lawmakers to override the governor's partial-birth abortion ban veto.
A group of physicans from across Missouri held a news conference in the statehouse Monday to support legislation to ban partial-birth abortions. The physicans called on lawmakers to override the governor's veto of the abortion-restriction bill. See our newspaper story for details Family-farm legislation is blocked by a federal court. A federal court has issued an order blocking implementation of a state law designed to protect livestock prices for small farmers. The law, passed last spring, would have required that meat packers pay the same price for livestock regardless of the number of livestock being purchased.