Missouri on Tuesday June 30, 2009

MO: Mo. employers seeking health care workers
By The Associated Press, The News Tribune (Tacoma)
A report by the Missouri Department of Economic Development says employers are working hard to fill jobs in health care and social assistance.
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MO: Court temporarily blocks judge firings
By The Associated Press, The News Tribune (Tacoma)
A Missouri court has temporarily blocked the firing of three administrative law judges who decide workers compensation cases.
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Furloughs cut into state services
By Pauline Vu, Stateline.org Staff Writer
With states facing a $121 billion shortfall in the next fiscal year, a growing number of them have turned to squeezing their workforce for savings, and effects both great and small will be felt.
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MO: Court rejects Mo. appeal on funeral protest law
By The Associated Press, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider Missouri's appeal of a court order barring the state from enforcing a law restricting protests near funerals.
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MO: Critics of affirmative action try again to get on Missouri ballot
By The Associated Press, Kansas City Star
The sponsor of an initiative limiting affirmative-action programs says he plans to submit a new version after a court ruled against his first try.
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MO: Missouri toughens efforts against 'puppy mills'
Staff reports, Kansas City Star
Missouri's attorney general and agriculture director are launching the next phase of a crackdown on unlicensed dog breeders.
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MO: Illinois borrowing measure to avert cuts
By Kevin McDermott, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois House on Monday overwhelmingly approved a complicated $2.2 billion borrowing plan designed to forestall massive social service cuts in the shadow of the state's protracted budget crisis.
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MO: New law expands investments for Missouri treasurer
By The Associated Press, Kansas City Star
Gov. Jay Nixon signed legislation Monday that expands a low-interest loan program and lets Missouri earn more interest on the money it keeps in local banks.
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MO: Debate heats up over who runs state license fee office
By Steve Kraske, Kansas City Star
Even before Gov. Jay Nixon took office in January, he had declared that the "era of license office patronage in Missouri is over."
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ND: Delay in Canada, Missouri lawsuits against N.D.
By Blake Nicholson, The Associated Press, The Bismarck Tribune
A resolution may not come until next year in lawsuits filed by Canada and the state of Missouri that challenge North Dakota's plan to divert water from the Missouri River to the state's northwest communities, the project's manager said Monday.
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US: Ruling adds teeth to state oversight of banks
By Neil Irwin, The Washington Post
For years, state governments have had little power to enforce consumer-protection and lending rules at the country's biggest banks. No more.
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US: Obama steers health debate out of capital
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times
WASHINGTON — With Democrats deeply divided over health legislation, President Obama is trying to enlist the nation's governors and his own army of grass-roots supporters in a bid to increase pressure on lawmakers without getting himself mired in the messy battle playing out on Capitol Hill.
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US: A green way to dump low-tech electronics
By Leslie Kaufman, The New York Times
Since 2004, 18 states and New York City have approved laws that make manufacturers responsible for recycling electronics, and similar statutes were introduced in 13 other states this year.
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