Ryan Famuliner

With the cost of a college education continuing to increase and state funding simultaneously decreasing, some are beginning to question the value of attending a university at all.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• The Senate passes a bill to push back Missouri's party primary filing deadlines
• More talk of how to fund reconstruction of I-70
• Changes to workplace injury laws are making their way through the Missouri legislature

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• The state Supreme Court tosses out ethics rules passed by the legislature in 2010
• Derrick Washington pleads guilty to assault
• A trial judge throws out a lawsuit concerning the new congressional house districts
• Attorney General Chris Koster writes to the SCOTUS concerning the federal health care mandate

Regional News Coverage from the KBIA newscast, including:

• The head of MODOT tells the legislature I-70 may need to become a toll road
• Ed Martin drops out of the Congressional race to join the race for MO Attorney General
• The Missouri Supreme Court decides not to rule yet on the new state legislative districts maps

A member of the University of Missouri Board of Curators has stepped down.

The University of Missouri system has announced its new Chancellor of the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including: 

• Understanding the Amber Alert system
• Trooper's body found in NW Missouri

This week on the show: farmers in the Midwest still have some of their money in limbo after a huge bankruptcy late last year. Plus, Governor Nixon touts his new plan for job creation in Missouri, just as Republicans question his past efforts.

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom:

• Missouri senate considers a measure that would try and prohibit government mandates to have health insurance
• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says they won't have levees repaired by spring
  

The University of Missouri system has seen record enrollment year after year. But the University’s leaders are keeping an eye on that growth to ensure it’s in the University’s best interest.