News & Notes

7-29 Columbia---Hinkson Creek grant details
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/07/28/boone-county-focus-commercial-interests-hinkson-grant/

7-29 Gulf of Mexico---Dolly stirs things up
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DEAD_ZONE?SITE=MOCOD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-07-28-20-26-02

7-29 Legislature---Studying ethanol mandate
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MO_ETHANOL_REQUIREMENT_MOOL-?SITE=MOCOD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

7-29 St. Louis---Algae-based fuel?
http://southsidejournal.stltoday.com/articles/2008/07/29/news/sj2tn20080728-0730hil-tech0.ii1.txt

7-31 Springfield---DNR UAA meeting
http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080728/COMMUNITIES0501/807300310/1146

7-31 Marshall---DNR permit issues from 20  years ago---bottom of story
http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1448785.html

8-1 Salt River---Closed
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2008/Jul/20080731News020.asp

8-1 Saline County---Algae-based fuel future?
http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1449096.html

8-1 Lake Oz---Sewage spill guilty plea
http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/729300.html

8-1 Nation---Earmark issues
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/washington/story/211113E076EBC1F286257498000512F9?OpenDocument

***KICKERS***
New York---A "very large lady" at the New York Sports Club was "sling-shot" off equipment known as the "abductor" - and had to be hauled from the gym in a rescue basket by firefighters, authorities said. The accident was reported when a 38-year-old woman was using the machine, which firms muscles of the hips and inner thighs, witnesses said. "She didn't close [the machine] properly," said one source who asked not to be identified. "She was supposed to exit it from the side but tried to go over the leg bar and her loose pants got caught in the handle. She put too much weight on the machine and she was, like, sling-shot from it." [[That’ll spice up your exercise routine.]]