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Birds Point Levee
2:08 pm
Thu September 1, 2011

Blunt meets with Corps to talk restoration of Birds Point floodway

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Mo. Sen. Roy Blunt.
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Reporting from KRCU's Jacob McCleland was used in this report.

Army Corps of Engineers officials and Mississippi County farmers met with Senator Roy Blunt Thursday to discuss the restoration of the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway.

The Corps is currently building a temporary levee to 51 feet - more than eleven feet lower than the original levee that was detonated in May to relieve massive flooding on the Mississippi River.

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Panama Canal Expansion Project / Missouri Shipping
5:16 pm
Thu August 18, 2011

Panama Canal expansion could increase shipping traffic on Mo. waterways

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Traveling through the Panama Canal.
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Reporting from KRCU's Jacob McCleland used in this report.

Missouri Department of Transportation officials anticipate the Panama Canal Expansion Project will bring more shipping traffic to Missouri’s waterways.

Freight development administrator Ernie Perry says there won’t be a sudden boost in river traffic, but the larger canal will make river shipping more feasible.

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Morning Round-up
9:04 am
Tue August 9, 2011

Morning headlines: Tuesday, August 9, 2011

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A special commission met in Jefferson City on Monday in an attempt to come to an agreement on redrawing State Senate distric boundaries. They adjourned without reaching a deal. The commission has until Aug. 18 to propose a tentative map.
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Commission struggles to reach agreement on Senate districts boundaries

A panel of five Democrats and five Republicans met Monday and adjourned without reaching a deal on a new Missouri state Senate district map for the 34-member Senate. Commission leaders said the St. Louis area seems to be the biggest sticking point in adjusting the outlines of the state and Senate districts.

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Morning round-up
9:24 am
Fri August 5, 2011

Morning headlines: Friday, August 5, 2011

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Missouri's gross revenue collection in July was up by .6 percent as compared to July 2010.
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Mo. Gross Revenue Up Slightly

Missouri’s gross revenue collection in July was up by .6 percent as compared to July 2010.

The revenue increase is driven by strong individual income tax collection, which was up 9.3 percent over the same time last year. Sales taxes remain stagnant, according to state budget director Linda Luebbering. She blames low sales tax collection on a stubbornly high unemployment rate.

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Morning round-up
9:25 am
Mon July 25, 2011

Morning headlines: Monday, July 25, 2011

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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, November 2009. Amish country.
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Missouri's Amish population on the rise

Missouri has the fourth-highest Amish population growth rate in the country. Between 2009 and 2011, the Amish population grew by 15 percent, according to Donald Kraybill at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.

Kraybill says that the population boom is fueled by large family size, high retention rates and immigration.

Missouri is attractive to Amish settlers for a number of reasons, Kraybill says.

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