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• Tell Koster to lay off

  —Show Me Progress

  Democrats need to speak up if we are to protect our state parks and historic sites from desecration by factory farms and the pollution they generate.  The Franklin County Democratic Central Committee voted on November 23 to support a resolution by the Missouri Chapter of the Sierra Club which reads [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:04am EST
  

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• Daily Round-Up (11/9)

  —The Source

  Just in case you missed it, the Senate and House health care bills contain hundreds of instances of the word "tax" (with all its variations).

  DNR Laying Off 48 State Parks Workers (News-Leader)
  After rushing through a decision to lay off 100 state parks workers, the DNR scales [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:44am EST
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• Missouri DNR reduces parks system layoffs to 48 employees

  —Political Fix

  JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri’s plan to cut about 100 state parks workers has been scaled back, according to the Springfield News-Leader’s Chad Livengood. After various workers exercised seniority rights and jobs were moved around, only 48 jobs were cut, according…

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:35pm EST
  by Tony Messenger

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• DNR laying off 48 state parks workers

  —Inside Missouri Politics

  The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has finalized its cost cutting plans in the Division of State Parks and Historic Sites, resulting in the layoffs of 48 employees and retirements of eight more. DNR officials say 77 other employees are transferring into different positions or taking pay cuts. [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:23pm EST
  

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• Disingenuous Democrat Chris Koster

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  Attorney General Chris Koster (D?) has definitely decided to pursue an appeal that would negate last year's court decision keeping CAFOs at least two miles from historic sites. At issue is whether or not buffer zones around state parks and historic sites will be created by the legal precedent of [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 12:09pm EDT
  

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• Long-Time DNR Official Fired, Nixon Appointees Keep Jobs

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  The Kansas City Star is reporting that Jim Yancey, a 25 year DNR employee and head of the Missouri state parks environmental section, has been fired. Yancey was responsible for withholding a set of E. coli test results in around the time frame to E.Coli-Gate.
  
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 11:50am EDT
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• Another One Bites the Dust! Jay Fires Another E. Coli Conspirator

  —Missouri Political News Service

  While Cardetti, Mazur and Templeton keep their jobs after admitting they repeatedly lied to the Governor and the public, another participant in this sorry saga gets the ‘ol heave ho from Jay: Travis Ford, spokesman for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, which oversees state parks, would say only that Yancey’s [...]

  Posted: October 23, 2009, 9:19am EDT
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• Ed Martin: State parks advisory board left in dark about DNR layoffs

  —Inside Missouri Politics

  Ed Martin, the former chief of staff to Gov. Matt Blunt who resigned in the wake of the Blunt administration's e-mail retention controversy, has injected himself into the turmoil in Gov. Jay Nixon's embattled Department of Natural Resources. [...]

  Posted: October 20, 2009, 2:17pm EDT
  

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• Seniority Will Drive Some State Park Cuts

  —KY3 Political Notebook

  Some senior state parks employees will be able to avoid layoffs by taking more junior positions, according to a Department of Natural Resources spokesperson. Employees learned Monday that more than 100 positions will be eliminated due to declining tax revenues. But exactly which employees will lose [...]

  Posted: October 19, 2009, 9:23pm EDT
  

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• Missouri cutting jobs today in Division of State Parks

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  JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is cutting jobs in the state parks division today as a result of continued economic problems, according to a memo obtained by the Post-Dispatch.

  The memo from deputy DNR director Bill Bryan says…

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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 11:50am EDT
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