Tagged: california

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. 

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

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.

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."