Maybe too much beer, St. Louisan Claire?  Journalgezette.net: (Ft. Wayne, IN) McCaskill was to be the featured speaker Sunday when Obama’s Economic Policy Tour came to Fort Wayne. Although a missed connecting flight forced McCaskill to miss the Fort Wayne stop Read more…

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From Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal The key for me is good reporting in both analysis and opinion writing. The difference is one of intention: opinion should be about changing hearts and minds with knowledge and wisdom; analysis should be about knowledge and wisdom (i.e. organized information embedded in a context and the capacity to know what […]

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Chris Howard with state committeewoman Mary Kay St. Onge and current 88th district rep. Neal St. Onge. 88th District Republican State Representative candidate Chris Howard, will host a town hall meeting next month to discuss illegal immigration. The town hall will be held Thursday, May 1, 2008 at The Pointe at Ballwin Commons, Meeting Room […]

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By Dudley Sharp Often, the death penalty dialogue gravitates to the subject of innocents at risk of execution. Seldom is a more common problem reviewed. That is, how innocents are more at risk without the death penalty. Living murderers, in prison, after release or escape or after our failures to incarcerate them, are much more […]

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“I ran as a friend to the Missouri Bar Association…” (8/1/07) From the Jeff Harris Campaign” “Sticking with the Republican Playbook he’s followed during the (sic) most of his term in the state Senate, Chris Koster continues to side with corporate special interests, voting for a bill that will make it easier for telephone companies […]

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We’ve leveled our fair share of criticism (see related) at Clay -who we all know that if not for his father – would NEVER be a member of the United States Congress. But today, we want to applaud the Congressman for his efforts to address the current epidemic (tongue firmly planted in cheek) of online […]

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 A contentious battle in the Missouri legislature came to a head last week when an education compensation bill was set aside in the House. According to legislators, the education establishment’s setback was largely due to its inability to come to terms with parent demands for special needs scholarship tax credits. A protracted floor debate ended […]

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By Joseph Haslag Senate Bill 1234 is currently rolling through the Senate. It expands the enterprise enhancement zone, and by identifying “megaprojects” that consist of capital investment of at least $300 million over an eight-year span, it is intended to create more than 1,000 jobs that pay higher-than-county-average wages. Under the new law, megaprojects would […]

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Quote Hat tip: KY3 Political Notebook “I do have an online subscription to the Wall Street Journal. The first things I usually check in the morning are corn prices and sports scores.” Congressman Hulshof   We haven’t seen many sports scores in the Wall Street Journal lately, but that gaffe seems to be the least […]

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