california

Will the defeat of Prop 37 lead to a national food labeling push?

Abbie Fentress Swanson — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:25:40 +0000

California voters defeated Proposition 37 [PDF] on Tuesday night, the ballot measure that would have required labels to indicate the presence of genetically modified foods. At the polls, 53 percent of Californians voted against the proposition, while 47 percent voted for it.

KBIA Newscast for June 20, 2012

Ryan Famuliner — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:37:48 +0000

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newscast, including:

A one-year-old Columbia tech company is headed to Silicon Valley for a prestigious training program
A clinic in California, MO gets a grant as part of the federal Affordable Care Act
Governor Nixon vetoes a bill he considers unconstitutional

Community health centers get new federal dollars

Jacob Fenston — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:40:41 +0000

Three community health centers in Missouri are getting new funding from the federal government. The grants announced today aim to help expand care for the medically underserved.

House discusses death penalty abolition in Missouri

Marshall Griffin — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:23:43 +0000

A House committee heard testimony Wednesday on legislation that would abolish the death penalty in Missouri. As St. Louis Public Radio’s Marshall Griffin tells us, the bill would also commute sentences of all current Death Row inmates to “life without parole."