“Ice Princess” Julie Myers For those of you not keeping score, Ms. Myers is the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is the second cousin of Sen. Bond by marriage. Sen. Bond was a big booster of her husband John Wood to become U.S. Attorney in Kansas City. Myers got into a [...]

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By Brad Belote Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and Attorney General Jay Nixon have slight leads in the latest polls in Missouri for their respective 2008 races. In hypothetical match-ups, Huckabee leads New York Sen. Hillary Clinton 45% to 43% and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama 45% to 41%. In the heated likely contest for Missouri [...]

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 From the Missouri Bar website: Bar-Drafted Family Law Bills Prefiled in Missouri House “Rep. Tim Flook got a head start on the 2008 legislative session this week, prefiling two bar-drafted/Board approved family law bills – Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act (HB1358) and Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) (HB 1360). He also prefiled the [...]

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Hat tip: Not Ready For Prime BUZZ Let’s face it folks, the Funk has got to go. Kansas City needs to open the discussion. We need a city that works, and it’s obvious that Funkhouser isn’t the solution. We’re not working for any candidate or group. We’re just citizens like you, who have had enough. [...]

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At this House hearing on global warming a couple of weeks ago, Congressman Cleaver laments on his teenage years in Wichita Falls, Texas of growing up three hundred yards from a landfill and six hundred yards from a waste treatment plant. Cleaver describes how the smell “changed the tone” of his neighborhood, keeping people inside [...]

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In an obvious attempt to upstage Governor Blunt’s announcement yesterday of tough new immigration measures, Jay Nixon trumpeted the sentencing of a Lake of the Ozarks developer to five years probation and roughly $1 million in penalties and fees for hiring thirty illegal immigrants. We’re pleased that Jay’s pollsters and consultants have told him that [...]

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