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By Michael Jensen – Publisher Eliminating affirmative action would adversely impact minority participation. But the other side of that coin is that when anyone is given a preference over another based on race or gender, someone suffers. Someone with better scores, someone with better skills and experience pays the price for affirmative action. And since [...]

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What irony! People who cling to a totally discredited political philosohy claiming the Missouri Civil Right initiative will “take us back 40, 50, 60 years?” In Missouri, the Working to Empower Community Action Now (WE CAN) coalition is organizing on several fronts to defeat the inappropriately named Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, including their “Think Before [...]

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The Current: (Univ. of Mo-St. Louis) By Paul Hackbarth function goPage(newindex) { currentLocation = getThisPage(); cleanedLocation = \’\'; // If this is an SHTML request. if (currentLocation.indexOf(“.shtml”) > -1) { // Detect if this is a request that already has a page specification. if (currentLocation.indexOf(“-page”) > -1) { cleanedLocation = currentLocation.substring(0, currentLocation.indexOf(“-page”)) + \’.shtml\’; } [...]

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By Chris Packham An ambiguously named group called the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative Committee wants to end affirmative action with a constitutional amendment. The group is headed up by Ward Connerly, a black man from California tired of seeing white people in Missouri denied employment or advancement, etc., etc. It’s like the opposite of annoying [...]

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IMMEDIATE RELEASE 01/07/08 Contact: Tim Asher Cell: (816) 868-3933 Grain Valley-(Today) In an unprecedented move, Circuit Court Judge Richard Callahan revised and certified official ballot title language for the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative (MoCRI), a proposed constitutional amendment scheduled for the November 2008 election. The previous ballot title language, drafted by Secretary of State Robin [...]

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