JEFFERSON CITY – Better Courts for Missouri Executive Director Jonathan Bunch today shared several letters submitted by legal scholars urging improvements to the Missouri Plan for selecting judges. According to Bunch, “Legal scholars who have studied judicial selection issues at the federal level and in other states have delivered a clear message: The Missouri Plan […]

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We found this advertisement today for Rep. Cleaver. Cleaver is apparently looking for a little office help in Washington. It’s your standard description for a Capitol Hill position; drafting statements, meeting deadlines etc. With Cleaver proving his undaunted loyalty to Senator Clinton recently, we have a few suggestions he should add to that job description. […]

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From The Riverfront Times: By Chad Garrison Early last month Riverfront Times sent Mayor Francis Slay’s office a list of questions concerning the city’s use of red-light cameras. Slay’s spokesman Ed Rhode answered some of our queries, but he ignored others entirely despite numerous follow-up calls. Curiously enough, one query — concerning how people who […]

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The Missouri Political News Service has learned that Mike Mills, deputy director over at the Department of Economic Development is leaving his post. Mills is rumored to have accepted an offer to work for former Bond staffer Jason Van Eaton’s new consulting firm. Developing…

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Tony “Baghad” Messenger laments today on his being shut out AGAIN in the local blogger awards: “Once again, the Springfield bloggers have deemed me unworthy. I was shut out in the second annual Blogaroni contest. Sadness reigns in the Messenger household.” As critical as we’ve been towards you Baghdad, we don’t expect you to heed […]

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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 St. Louis Federalist Society will present an all-star panel of property rights experts debating the law of eminent domain. Eminent domain remains a hot issue in Missouri, as evidenced by the publicity surrounding City of Arnold v. Tourkakis. On Thursday, March 6, 2008, come to the Missouri Athletic Club in downtown St. Louis and […]

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We have some advice for our Democrat friends in North St. Louis. Maybe if they click their heels three times and chant “change” over and over, they’ll be able to miraculously work out this little disagreement. Want a definition of political insanity? The infighting of minorities – within a minority party! (at least at the […]

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