See our radio story with digital audio for more information. The University of Missouri would get the smallest budget increase of any of the state's colleges and universities under the governor's budget plan presented to lawmakers Wednesday. MU would get a 3.5 percent increase while the rest of the schools would get increases ranging from 6.5 percent to more than ten percent. For more information, see our complete newspaper story. Also check out the higher education budget table .
Prisons tops governor's legislative agenda, managed care regulation left off.
Missouri's governor has urged lawmakers to fund construction of two new maximum security prisons and expand two other prisons that are still being built. Left off the governor's legislative agenda was tougher regulation of managed health care plans which has been the focus of a special legislative committee investigation. Our radio story with digital audio. Filibuster predicted in the Senate. The Senate began debate on the controversial package of pay hikes for state officials, but there was no vote before the noon adjournment.