By Greg Giroux, CQ Staff
Missouri is one of 11 states holding elections for governor this year, and provides what is probably the Democrats’ best chance to capture a Republican-held seat. GOP Gov. Matt Blunt chose to retire rather than face what would have surely been a tough race against Democratic state Attorney General Jay […]

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Click here to listen (Courtesy KCMO)
Jeff Roe and Phil Levota discuss tomorrow’s Indiana and N. Carolina primaries. The reemergence of Rev Jeremiah Wright. Super delegate Ike Skelton choosing Hillary Clinton. The proposed gas tax holiday.

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By Rob Luke
TOPEKA — Kansas Rep. Kenny Wilk is adding more armor for his full-scale attack on a controversial new Missouri law on cross-state taxation.
Wilk late last week submitted an unusual opinion request to Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison. He asked the AG’s opinion on whether a recent Missouri law increasing income taxes on out-of-staters […]

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Mayor Slay has been out of the news lately-it works sometimes Funkhouser, try it-but this morning I noticed this at the News-Leader:
The St. Louis circuit attorney’s office is changing philosophies. Now, the best prosecutors are going after the worst criminals in the hopes of better combating crime.
Well, duh. Only in St. Louis can such common […]

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Sometimes our neighbors’ news is far too rich to ignore.
Libertarian talk hosts, Quinn and Rose, broke a story leaked to them from somebody close to Kansas Senator Sam Brownback. According to their source Democrat Gov. Kathleen Sebelius politicized her state’s recent natural disaster while putting Kansas residents lives in limbo
Jim Quinn told his audience […]

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