Fired Up Missouri is slowly dumbing itself down to the equivalent of the The National Enquirer. You know when you grab the Enquirer off the newsstand, most of the articles you’re going to read are either total fabrications, total stretches, or littered with countless mis-information and half truths. With the same morbid fascination human beings […]

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JEFFERSON CITY – A federal budget bill approved by Democrats in which taxpayer dollars would be used to pay for a needle-exchange program in Washington, D.C., is exactly the kind of radical proposal supported by Kay Barnes, who publicly backed a similar idea during a 1999 mayoral forum. The approval of funding by the U.S. […]

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U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt toured a new Eagle-Picher battery manufacturing plant in Joplin on Monday, but could not say much about what was happening inside the plant because of military secrecy. Blunt said the company, which has received two federal research appropriations, is “heading the lithium-ion battery effort for the Defense Department.’’ Read more…

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We’d love to read a Show Me Institute opinion on this program. The Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations’ mailed checks worth $470,000.02 this week to compensate victims through the Tort Victims’ Compensation Program. “This program assists people who have been injured due to the negligence or recklessness of another person and who have […]

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By Sen. Kit Bond I have been a long-time advocate for children in the U.S. Senate. I have worked hard on children’s health issues, the Parents as Teachers program, Family Leave, Child Care, you name it. I believe — and I know you do too — every child deserves the opportunity to reach his or […]

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We agree with 24th State 100%! I subscribe to the Politics Blog from the Columbia Tribune, and I have to say, if you’re looking for an example of how to run a newspaper blog, you have to pick up the phone and talk to Jason Rosenbaum. I’m constantly pleased with the quality of the reporting, […]

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The “new media” demonstrated it’s power to affect government at all levels recently. On the statewide level, the governor’s veto of HB327 last Friday – due mainly to a PubDef documentary and the Post Dispatch consequently following up with a story a few weeks – later doomed this legislation. Both stories suggested that St. Louis […]

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Told ya so. For immediate release Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri Ronnie White, a former Chief Justice of the Court, is retiring from the bench and joining as a partner in the newly named law firm of Holloran, White & Schwartz LLP. Partner James Holloran said, “It is a tremendous coup for us […]

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I recently received a personal phone call from U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill saying she had seen my son while visiting Iraq. She wanted to tell my wife and me that he was doing well, and to thank us for our sacrifices as parents. She then forwarded pictures her aide had taken during the visit. Now, […]

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FOR IMMIEDIATE RELEASE Contact : press@mike4missouri.com or 1.314.601.3674 Mike Evans, Democrat for Lt. Governor, released the following statement on Governor Matt Blunt’s decision to veto HB # 327. “Governor Matt Blunt stood with the people of the state. There was a message from the people of Missouri that HB # 327 is not going to […]

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