Ryan Famuliner

All across the country today, local reporting outlets are putting in calls to their local school district public relations professionals in an attempt to report a story about what would happen if the tragedy in Newtown, CT were to happen HERE.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• An immigration panel meets in Jefferson City
• A state leader talks about the possibility of a Medicaid expansion
• Eminent domain petitions are cleared for signature gathering
• Mamtek's CEO is denied a lower bond

Columbia’s economic development leaders are officially asking the Columbia City Council to effectively drop the effort to create an enhanced enterprise zone, or EEZ, in the city.

This week on the show – New enforcement creates questions about whether organic certification is worth it for farmers. Plus, details about the likelihood of Missouri becoming a right to work state, and a report from Jefferson City about the possibility of Missouri switching to performance based funding for higher education.

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• UM System Students Likely To Face Tuition, Fee Increases Again Next Year
• Columbia P&Z tables South Route K development vote
• Nixon had $414,000 left over from campaign
  

This week on Talking Politics: the latest on Jo Ann Emerson’s retirement and the rush to find a replacement in the US House. Plus, the so-called fiscal cliff, and what it would mean for the University of Missouri system.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Hunters kill more than 200,000 deer in Missouri
• Frontier Airlines begins flights from Columbia Regional Airport
• A man files suit in St. Louis over secret government testing during the Cold War

According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data, 14 percent of people in Missouri live below the poverty line. That’s almost 900,000 Missourians. KBIA’s Harum Helmy finds out how one nonprofit organization attempts to educate the 86 percent about what it’s like to be on the other side.

Ameren Missouri and Westinghouse found out today they were not chosen to receive funding from the US Department of Energy for a project to build Small Modular Reactors at Ameren’s Callaway County plant in Fulton.