“Several lawsuits have been filed over the establishment of the [trash] program. In one suit, a ruling is pending on how much in damages the county must pay three haulers that successfully argued they did not receive a state-required two years’ written notification before the trash districts’ establishment.” You would think with this sorry history, […]

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STL Post Dispatch: County Executive Charlie A. Dooley announced Thursday that he will seek re-election in 2014. “I love what I do, and I love my team,” Dooley said Thursday afternoon. “County voters have given me a great opportunity that few people get in a lifetime, and I want to continue to work for them […]

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the employment numbers for March today, but news reports suggest they’re disappointing. The Wall Street Journal writes, “U.S. job growth slowed in March, and the labor force shrank, signaling that the economy could be losing momentum. Jobs outside of agriculture grew by 120,000 last month—half the number that the […]

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The Coalition to Protect Missouri Jobs spoke to members of the media yesterday regarding their plans to build a broad based coalition that will educate candidates and citizens on important workplace issues during the upcoming election.  The coalition will highlight facts surrounding job-killing legislation and regulation harming the workplace, and urge candidates for federal office […]

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Credit: KMOX.comYesterday during her so called  “fairness tour,” in Columbia yesterday, the self proclaimed moderate and populist called for the president to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve: “If we would release some oil from the strategic reserve it would cause the price of oil to go down, maybe not permanently, but temporarily, and […]

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Who is paying for this? Missourian: U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill visited a Shell gas station on Interstate 70 Drive as part of her “Fighting for Fairness” tour, which came to Columbia on Wednesday. McCaskill, D-Mo., spoke to a handful of media at the gas station as part of her travels through Missouri focused on a […]

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“Speed is important…Debate starts at 10 in am. Votes late tomorrow aft or early eve. Holding flight home tomorrow night. Hope I make it.” – Sen. Claire McCaskill on Twitter discussing the stimulus vote As she today embarks on a so-called fairness tour to fight for “struggling Missouri families,” Claire McCaskill should take this opportunity […]

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President Obama continues to take criticism for his preemptive attack on the Supreme Court on Monday, when he claimed that if the justices found his health care law to be unconstitutional it “would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” AFP […]

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Governor Nixon’s opposition research team is in full overdrive. Last week it was Reliance Bank and TARP funds, this week it’s personal and business taxes. Here’s an excerpt from today’s KC Star article from Steve Kraske. Examples of Spence’s tax problems: In June 1995, the state of Missouri sued Alpha Packaging for unpaid manufacturers’ taxes […]

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