Sarah D. Wire

Sarah is a senior journalism major at the University of Missouri. Sarah's work with Missouri Digital News focuses on Missouri government processes and the interplay of the two major political parties.

She is originally from Denver, CO.

Sarah D. Wire Stories

• 5/14/2008: Newspaper Story - Republicans slowed passage of several bills and called for the ouster of House Speaker Rod Jetton on Wednesday.
• 5/13/2008: Newspaper Story - Whispers of a special session began after the Senate added a controversial amendment to a key immigration bill
• 5/12/2008: Newspaper Story - Senate Republicans pushed forward with a proposed constitutional amendment which would allow voter identification laws in the state. The issue is one of the most partisan issues to be raised in the session.

Stories by Sarah D. Wire Sarah D. Wire include:

• 12/ 5/2007: Newspaper Story - Governor calls for $31.2 million for Ellis Fischel Cancer Center
• 12/ 3/2007: Newspaper Story - Several pieces of legislation filed reflect recent national events
• 12/ 3/2007: Newspaper Story - A look at what Columbia legislators would like to accomplish in the 2008 session
• 11/28/2007: Newspaper Story - The State and utility company Ameren reached a $179,750,000 settlement resolving a civil suit filed by the Attorney General and all other state demands for compensation.
• 11/26/2007: Newspaper Story - Whack-a-mole style game portrays governor deleting e-mails
• 11/20/2007: Radio Story - Governor removes Ed Martin as Chief of Staff
• 11/20/2007: Newspaper Story - Gov. Blunt's controversial chief of staff resigns
• 11/16/2007: Newspaper Story - A background feature on organization seeking to change Missouri's nonpartisan court plan.
• 11/16/2007: Newspaper Story - A background feature on the debate on changing or repealing Missouri's non-partisan court system for selecting judges. Part 1
• 11/14/2007: Radio Story - State Auditor finds criminal checks necessary for three state departments
• 11/ 7/2007: Newspaper Story - Capitol chandelier raised almost a year after falling
• 10/22/2007: Newspaper Story - University of Missouri System adopts code of conduct agreement
• 10/17/2007: Newspaper Story - Cole County Judge Richard Callahan decided in favor of the State in the last stage of the school funding lawsuit which has gone on since 2004.
• 10/10/2007: Radio Story - Committee hears testimony about regulating high school sports agency
• 10/10/2007: Newspaper Story - A state committee wants to regulate the Missouri state activities association
• 10/ 5/2007: Newspaper Story - The number of politicians using YouTube to campaign seems to be increasing
• 10/ 1/2007: Newspaper Story - The University of Missouri system has not been contacted about signing a state sponsored student loan code of conduct regarding their preferred lender list,
• 9/28/2007: Newspaper Story - Can the attorney general be fired from state cases?
• 9/19/2007: Newspaper Story - As of this month, that truck you pass on Interstate 70 could be a Mexican or Canadian vehicle. And the new North Amercian trucking system is generating arguments about safety from the union for American truckers.
• 9/12/2007: Newspaper Story - TV personality Bob Barker inducted into the hall of famous Missourians
• 9/10/2007: Newspaper Story - The MoHELA Lawsuit begins Tuesday to try to stop the state mandated transfer of funds on Friday
• 9/ 7/2007: Newspaper Story - Judge to hear whether state is doing its part for lower education funding
• 8/29/2007: Newspaper Story - Senate approves tax break bill in special session
• 8/27/2007: Newspaper Story - The Senate Economic Development Committee approved the economic development bill Wednesday in an unanimous vote
• 8/22/2007: Newspaper Story - A bill moving through the legislative special session could speed up a bridge rebuilding program
• 8/22/2007: Newspaper Story - Missouri's Health Department dumps the Attorney General as its lawyer in an abortion-rights lawsuit.
• 8/20/2007: Newspaper Story - Missouri's legislature begins its special session with a near-empty House chamber.
• 5/19/2007: Newspaper Story - Legislative term limits had its biggest impact yet on Missouri's legislature
• 5/18/2007: Newspaper Story - One word marked Democrat's feeling of the legislative session -- Punks
• 5/18/2007: Newspaper Story - The passage of the governor's medicaid proposal was overshadowed Thursday when the Senate Minority Leader called the Republican senators
• 5/15/2007: Newspaper Story - The uproar caused by Sen. John Loudon came to a head Tuesday with the approval of an amendment that will outline how midwifery will work and requiring licensing and oversight of all state midwives
• 5/ 3/2007: Newspaper Story - The governor's Campus Security Task Force met for the first time to begin plans for a report on Higher Education.
• 5/ 1/2007: Radio Story - Missouri's House Higher Education Committee voted Tuesday to keep an amendment which allows legislators without a graduate degree to teach political science at state universities.
• 4/19/2007: Newspaper Story - The state's flagship university lost most of it's construction funding through the proposed MOHELA sale after a nine hour Democratic Filibuster in the Senate
• 4/17/2007: Newspaper Story - Virginia's shootings prompt Missouri's governor to appoint a task force on college safety.
• 4/12/2007: Newspaper Story - Republican leadership said they have been patient with the Democrats objections with the higer education bill but that patience may be wearing thin
• 4/10/2007: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Veteran's Commission celebrated it's 75th anniversary Tuesday followed by a rally to support the troops fighting in Iraq and Afganistan
• 3/29/2007: Newspaper Story - A proposed four cent tax on fuel would raise money to rebuild I-70, improve state public transportation and improve the state's ports.
• 3/27/2007: Newspaper Story - As the 2008 budget came before the House of Representatives Tuesday the amount of funds being designated to higher education and the purpose behind doubling the virtual schools program was questioned
• 3/26/2007: Newspaper Story - Gov. Matt Blunt was named to a national panel of Governors to improve national health care systems
• 3/15/2007: Newspaper Story - The Missouri House passed legislation today protecting journalist and their sources during legal proceedings
• 3/13/2007: Newspaper Story - Republicans approached Democrats Tuesday encouraging a compromise after a 15 hour hour filibuster Monday kept the Senate in session overnight
• 3/ 8/2007: Newspaper Story - State Democrats called for a audit of all state employees to ensure salary equity
• 3/ 6/2007: Radio Story - Medicaid debate tied up the Senate Health Committee for three hours Tuesday with the accountibility issue coming up repeatedly.
• 2/27/2007: Newspaper Story - Democrats are asking for an investigation into the Governor's actions following allegations of sexual harassment in the Agriculture Department,
• 2/22/2007: Radio Story - Top ranking State Republicans proposed a new healthcare bill Thursday that would replace Medicaid.
• 2/20/2007: Radio Story - A bill requiring solicitors using automated messaging to adhere to Missouri's do-not-call list was approved by the state senate Tuesday/
• 2/15/2007: Newspaper Story - UM System President Elson Floyd wants to keep medical research out of any building construction with funds from the proposed MOHELA sale
• 2/ 8/2007: Newspaper Story - The legislative sponsor of the state's school funding law defended his proposal in court Thursday.
• 2/ 6/2007: Radio Story - Representative John Bowman declined to comment on his indictment Thursday although many questioned his future role on Missouri's Powerful State Budget Committee.
• 2/ 6/2007: Radio Story - The House Health Committee heard testimony on a bill to undo provisions of the stem cell research amendment approved by voters in November.
• 2/ 1/2007: Newspaper Story - Legislators passed the bar back and forth about the role a recently indicted house member will play on the powerful budget committee
• 1/30/2007: Radio Story - The day after news broke of Repulican John Bowman being indicted for credit fraud fellow budget committee members and black caucus members declined to speak on the matter
• 1/25/2007: Newspaper Story - Senate confirms two new members of UM Board of Curators
• 1/25/2007: Newspaper Story - State auditor Susan Montee on how her past carried her to politics, controversial decisions she's made and her propsed audit of MoHELA
• 1/23/2007: Newspaper Story - An audit released found the First Steps program for children to be underfunded and understaffed.
• 1/10/2007: Newspaper Story - Gov. Blunt commended State Auditor Susan Montee on her plan to audit MoHELA