So I was already having a crummy day when I got this comment on an old post:
Hey, um. Fuck you dude. I'd like to see if you knew what it was like here. how rich the culture is. How amazing the food is. Come say ANY of this' [...]
Family Bicycles in Brookside/Waldo has an opening for a part-time mechanic and sales position…
If you or anyone you know has experience working in a bicycle store Family Bicycles has a part-time position. The seasonal PT position includes mechanical and sales work. Shifts are mostly for weekdays: M, W and [...]
A few articles and blogs have recently criticized the Show-Me Institute for moving to our lovely new location in the Central West End. (One article erroneously cites another blog as having broken the news, when it was actually David Stokes here at Show-Me Daily [...]
As many of you are probably aware, the Texas State Board of Education voted on Friday to make a number of changes to the state’s social studies standards. A few of these changes are mildly positive, and some are fairly innocuous, but most are are actively detrimental to the education [...]
Eddie Salazar waived his preliminary hearing Wednesday in Jasper County Circuit Court and was bound over for trial on a murder charge.
In the accompanying video, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. defends her amendment that would cap discretionary spending, and breaks with her party's leadership in Congress, which has proposed a less effective alternative amendment: 
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill tore into her party’s leadership in the Senate today, which has balking at her attempt to impose a limit on Congressional spending.
The Missouri Democrat is sponsoring an…
[...]BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal appellate court said Thursday it wouldn’t reconsider its ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for misuse of the material witness statute after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The ruling came after a majority of the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is backing an immigration bill outline drafted by two senators that says illegal immigrants must admit they broke the law to become citizens.
Obama says in a statement that the outline of a bill Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Lindsey Graham are crafting addresses border [...]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A sobering new report from the Illinois Senate Democratic Caucus details the numbers within the state’s school underpayment crisis. It’s worth a look for anyone weighing in on the debate over the state’s $13 billion budget deficit.…
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WDAF: Parents angry over school closings are calling on teachers and students to stay home from school on April 5th and they're calling it a day of absence.' [...] Today’s Springfield News-Leader has an op-ed (link via Combest) written by a state rep who is seeking to promote the growth of the mafia and loan sharks pass legislation limiting payday loans in Missouri. I never cease to be astounded at politicians, of either party, who consistently attempt [...]
Nasheed
ST. LOUIS – State Rep. Jamilah Nasheed, who is leading the charge in Jefferson City to wrest the St. Louis Police Department out of the state’s grip, will host a forum tonight on the…
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ATLANTA (AP) — Last fall, as swine flu cases mounted and parents desperately sought to protect their kids, the hard-to-get vaccine was handed out in some surprising places: the Royal Caribbean cruise line, the headquarters of drug giant Merck, the Johnson Space Center and a Department of Energy office in [...]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — SC gov will plead no contest to ethics charges, pay $74,000 in fines over travel, spending.
Shouldn't legislators abstain from votes on legislation that affects their personal income?
During this week's House debate on HB1472, Majority Leader Steve Tilley (R-Perryville) and Rep. David Sater (R-Cassville) spoke and voted against an amendment to require prescriptions to buy pseudoephedrine. Under current law, the cold medicine [...]
I stole the title for this blog entry from Gov. Jay Nixon’s speech the other day. I haven’t discussed it sooner, because I wanted to give it the full think tank treatment, not like the usual ephemera I post on this blog. So, I warn you, this will be a long post.
I [...]
Peter Kinder may be silent on how the state should restructure its budgets and programs, what that doesn't mean he's sitting out the budget process. Yesterday, he asked the public to "contact your local representatives and let them know how important [the Tour of Missouri] is to' [...]
Missouri Democrats claim that while Republican Rep. Roy Blunt has been condemning the so-called “deeming” maneuver that the House might use to try and pass health care reform, he used to be for it.
“Deeming,” also known as the self-executing rule, would allow a procedural vote on the health care bill [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have lost an effort to force House Democrats to hold a direct vote on the health overhaul bill.
Democrats want to use a special procedure that would let the House automatically approve the $940 billion measure when lawmakers vote to begin debating a separate proposal that would [...]
The St. Louis Beacon has a story today reprinting excerpts from a Kit Bond press release accusing Democrats of finding "a loophole to our constitution" in their consideration of using "deem and pass" procedures to advance health care reform legislation.
Say what you will about the merits of the [...]
Sarah Palin will appear in Independence on May 1.
Palin will speak at “Winning America Back,” a one-day conference to be held at the Independence Events Center, whose representatives announced the event Thursday.
General admission tickets will cost $50 with priority seating tickets selling for $75.
Tickets go on sale at 10 [...]
On May 1st the teabagger/birther/hopey-changey/hockey universe will converge in the eastern suburbs when Sarah Palin makes a speech at the Independence Events Center. It’s really a perfect venue for this hot mess, you betcha. Not only did Palin try to appropriate Independence’s Harry Truman during [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is postponing his trip to Asia until June so he can stay in Washington for a possible Sunday vote on his health care overhaul plan.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says Obama has called the leaders of Indonesia and Australia to express his regret that [...]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A bill raising the amount of taxes Collinsville’s Fairmount Park Racetrack must pay to the state’s racing authority passed the Illinois Senate today.
Edit: The bill increases the tax rate on the track to 0.75 percent…
[...]President Obama told Fox News Wednesday that the Democrats’ health care plan “tracks” the recommendations offered by some prominent former Republican Senate leaders, Bob Dole and Howard Baker.
But Dole and Baker don’t think so.
The former Kansas and Tennessee senators, respectively, think the plan “has gone off the tracks.”
Here’s [...]
Former Chief’s General Manager Carl Peterson may be long gone from river city, but his Country Club Plaza penthouse was just listed for sale for a cool $4.25 million. The 4800 square foot pad features three bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a 1000 square foot terrace, and [...]
Huffman
Former state Rep. Mildred Huffman of west St. Louis County died Wednesday after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Huffman, who was 89, was the first woman to be nominated for statewide office in Missouri…
[...]Chester E. Finn Jr. is trying to convince conservatives to support the Common Core Standards. Although I don’t know whether he intended to include free-market bloggers in his audience, I’d like to go over his points and consider whether anyone — conservative or not — should be swayed by [...]
JEFFERSON CITY | The Jefferson City sausage factory is running at peak production today.
The House Budget Committee is working round the clock on amendments to next year's budget, making outright cuts to close a projected $500 million shortfall and rearranging funds to boost favored programs.
Committee members met for more than [...]
Watching President Barack Obama fill out his bracket last night , it looked like — for a moment, at least — he had some faith in the unheralded Missouri Tigers.
Obama, whose love of…
[...]TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas House Republicans are proposing a 2011 state budget that would cut government spending and create more than $300 million in reserve, all without raising taxes.
The plan is being outlined by GOP leaders of the House Appropriations Committee. It would close the projected budget shortfall by [...]
from newsbusters
Only Good Morning America on Thursday played the cringe-inducing clip of Joe Biden incorrectly asserting that the mother of Ireland's Prime Minister is dead. Speaking at a St. Patrick's Day event, Wednesday, the Vice President ad-libbed, "His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal grand jury reportedly has issued subpoenas in a probe involving Sen. John Ensign of Nevada.
According to one subpoena obtained by a Las Vegas television station, recipients were ordered to testify March 31 in Washington, D.C., and to turn over documents relating to the Republican senator.
TV [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would simultaneously deliver on President Barack Obama’s promise to expand coverage while slashing the deficit, a strategy aimed at winning over the party’s fiscal conservatives.
Leaving nothing to [...]
Sen. Claire McCaskill will chair a bipartisan panel investigating the evidence in the Senate impeachment trial of a federal judge in New Orleans.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous faces impeachment over allegations that he accepted gifts from lawyers involved in cases before him.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid appointed McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, to lead [...]
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee released a new "No New Jobs" ad highlighting GOP Senate candidates' opposition to the recently-passed jobs bill.
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Yesterday, on a bipartisan basis, the Senate passed the HIRE Act, a commonsense bill that provides hiring incentives and tax relief to small businesses in' [...]
JEFFERSON CITY — The long-awaited ethics bill from the Missouri House was presented in committee today and is likely to be voted out of committee next week.
Among its key provisions:
Campaign contribution limits set at $5,000 across the…
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WASHINGTON - Senior Democratic aides Thursday provided a snapshot of what they say the Congressional Budget Office has found after evaluating the latest revised version of the health care bill — including the package of fixes.
House Democrats say the legislation will cost $940 billion over 10 years [...]
Talk about ugly.
Check out this video of a health reform protest Tuesday in Ohio where opponents bitterly mocked a man who said he had Parkinson's Disease and needed help.
It occurred outside the local office of a Democratic congresswoman still undecided about her vote.
"If you're looking for a handout, you're in [...]
Last night, as the House Budget Committee was debating drastic cuts to public education, Lt. Governor Peter Kinder made his first public request for support of the 2010 Tour of Missouri (TOM).
Kinder and his spokesman directed folks to a new page on the TOM website, [...]
Questions are surfacing once again regarding Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser's speaking fees.
For the record, the mayor does have a side consulting business, with its attendant speaking fees and travel expenses.
He says he had this side business for years, and did outside speaking gigs when on vacation from his [...]
MO House votes down change to school funding formula
Sitting down with the Coffee Party
The Missouri House passes the Health Care Freedom Act, a blogger contends that earmarks should be permanently banned, and a proposal to institute convenant marriage in Kansas didn't make it [...]
With a 95% vote record for Nancy Pelosi, you're going to have a tough time convincing your district you're anything but a hard-line Liberal. What do you do? Apparently, you start recruiting fellow Liberals to start pumping your Conservative credentials.
Not exactly a brilliant plan, but you have to do [...]
The CBO analysis of the compromise health care reform legislation won't be officially released until 11am, but it's being leaked to various outlets. Politico's topline summary:
The Congressional Budget Office has determined that the health reform plan will cost $940 billion over 10 years, but will trim the federal deficit by' [...]
Released late Wednesday:
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Smith was honored by aldermen for his 30 years of service
ST. LOUIS — One of the top members of Mayor Francis Slay’s cabinet is leaving later this month, creating a key vacancy as City…
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I recently stopped at 7-11 located at 17th & Pine to rent a movie from the RedBox.
As I was standing there a customer came out of the store and needed to get past me, he was using a motorized [...]
NBC Action News: Police say more people were arrested for drunk driving this St. Patrick's Day than years past. [...] 
The Star: On final shift before new job beckoned, 7-Eleven clerk killed in robbery
KMBZ: Man killed in 
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Thankfully, sometimes local crooks are 
