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The head of the Missouri Department of Transportation says charging tolls on Interstate 70 is the only real option for funding reconstruction of the highway, if the state wants to do something about it right now. 

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• $27 million in grant money to health insurance exchange in Missouri has come to a complete halt
• Missouri democrats block weak workplace discrimination bill in State Senate
• ACLU sues St. Louis for inmate grievances
• Big trucks on small roads--cattlemen vs. MoDOT
  

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom:

• Schools front and center for state legislature
• Missouri's higher education commissioner wants to tie state funding to performance
• Tom Schlafly sells off most of his beer company

The 2012 Missouri legislative session is underway – and as St. Louis Public Radio’s Marshall Griffin tells us, much of the first-day talk revolved around the challenges facing the state’s public schools.

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom:

• MO lawmakers have to do more with less
• How do MO colleges match up against our international counterparts?

Missouri lawmakers return to Jefferson City today for the start of this year’s legislative session.  The year 2011 was marked by House and Senate Republicans fighting with each other over tax credits and redistricting, while still managing to take pot shots at Democratic Governor Jay Nixon’s handling of the state budget.  Marshall Griffin takes a look at how the 2012 session may play out.

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Missouri Highway Patrol enforces federal ban on cellphone use on the road
• Timothy Wolfe newest president at University of Missouri
• State auditors missing over a half million dollars in receipts