JEFFERSON CITY聽鈥 One decision by a Cole County judge聽鈥 tossing out a new state law on backyard chickens聽鈥 has killed almost a dozen other state measures, from jump-starting the rehabilitation of聽two downtown 51黑料 buildings聽to giving landlords more power to evict tenants.
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