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...council voted 9-0 to spend $1.5 million to restore playgrounds and playing fields at Magazine Beach in Cambridgeport, following a bill that was co-sponsored in the state legislature by Barrios and Travaglini...
...council seemed equally thrilled by the developments. For about a half-hour before the vote, councillors complimented State Rep. Jarrett T. Barrios '90, State Sen. Robert E. Travaglini, the city manager, and the Friends of Magazine Beach for completing a new joint management and license agreement between the city and the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) to renovate facilities at the beach...
...years, Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie L. White, the state's first African-American Supreme Court judge, languished somewhere in the Senate Judiciary Committee, his nomination to a Federal District Court post on hold. During a 1998 re-election campaign, Missouri's slightly less conservative senator, Kit Bond, said White had the "necessary qualifications and character" for the position and pledged to bring his nomination to the floor for a vote...
...Senate campaign in my home state of Missouri began almost as soon as the 1998 elections were over. For a year now, everyone has known that Gov. Mel Carnahan, a moderate Democrat, will be challenging the incumbent Sen. John Ashcroft (R-Mo.), a conservative Republican and a favorite of the Christian Coalition. With such a stark contrast between the candidates' positions, there's no question that some otherwise forgettable decisions might take on great political significance and that impartial government might fall by the wayside. Unfortunately, with such a long race, the casualties--including some very talented people--are already...
...these years you've prayed silently for your high school football team to score; now, the United States Supreme Court is going to decide whether you can do it out loud. The battle over the separation of Church and State in schools moved onto the sports field Monday, as the Supreme Court elected to review a Texas high court decision banning student-led group prayers at football games. The case arises from a 1995 complaint in the Santa Fe school district near Galveston against the local school board's decision to allow students to read any message or "invocation" over...