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Work-related deaths
Two Iraqis cry today in front of al-Kindi Hospital in Baghdad. Suspected insurgents set off two bombs today in a main square of Baghdad, where scores of Iraqis were waiting for jobs as day laborers. At least 63 people were killed.
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School plans include three
new buildings
By JANESE HEAVIN
of the Tribune’s staff
Columbia voters will be asked over the next six years to approve $180 million in bonds that would allow the school district to build a new high school and two elementary schools without a tax increase.
Campus fires spur push for sprinkler law
By MATTHEW LeBLANC
of the Tribune’s staff
Seven years after a University of Missouri-Columbia student died in an off-campus fraternity house fire, the city will consider a law that would require fraternities and sororities to install sprinkler systems in their houses.
Another suitor wooing hospital
By JACOB LUECKE
of the Tribune’s staff
An old suitor has returned to Columbia with a new attempt to steal Boone Hospital’s heart just as hospital leaders seemed ready to renew their vows with BJC HealthCare.
Tax-revision advocate spices up policy discussions
By JASON ROSENBAUM
of the Tribune’s staff
JEFFERSON CITY- Gov. Matt Blunt met with a proponent of dissolving the state income tax yesterday as lawmakers in the General Assembly are openly talking about cutting or simplifying the state’s tax code.
Presidents confer on education
By TERRY GANEY
of the Tribune’s staff
JEFFERSON CITY - Gov. Matt Blunt met with the presidents of some Missouri public colleges and universities this morning about tuition, accountability issues and funding, but no final decisions were made.
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NEIGHBORHOOD ROUNDUP
Recall rumblings spread through First Ward
By MATTHEW LeBLANC of the Tribune’s staff
In the history of the city of Columbia - as far as anyone knows - there has been only one attempt to recall a sitting member of the city council.
In Politics Blog
More on Moore
Being for lower taxes is a common political stand, often in the same league of being in favor of cuddly puppies. But a new study from the Show Me Institute wants to go a step further by completely eliminating the state's income tax in less than two decades.
Blunt keeps mum on Mitt
Remember when National Review Online mentioned that Gov. Matt Blunt would announce his endorsement of soon-to-be former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney “probably in the next few days?”
Well, it’s been exactly 11 days since that blurb hit the blogosphere, and there’s been no such announcement. So I asked Blunt today during a conference call whether he’s going to back Romney in 2008.
