An article in today’s Columbia Missourian discusses Al Sharpton’s solution for reducing the gap between blacks and whites when it comes to health care services … universal health care: Universal health care to me is the only way you are going to bridge the gap to guarantee all Americans health care, Sharpton said. The gap […]

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Bill Funds Effort to Fight Alzheimer’s and Increase Resources & Research Senator Kit Bond announced yesterday that the Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Act of 2007 (S. 898) passed the full Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. Bond co-sponsored the comprehensive legislation with Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) to increase federal resources to fight Alzheimer’s disease. “Alzheimer’s […]

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Having a little time before they had to pick up their children from school or daycare, Code Pink and the Peace Network of the Ozarks activists staged a symbolic one hour protest in front of Senator’s McCaskill’s Springfield office Wednesday. We again have to question the strategies of our anti-war protester friends. This protest was […]

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I was appointed to the Boone County Board of Adjustment toward the beginning of this year, but this month marked the first meeting of the board this year. There were two cases before the board, one of which I considered a slam-dunk approval and the other generated more discussion that I thought would occur (but […]

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By Jen Chen The Hill, a D.C. newspaper that usually covers Congress, announced its fourth-annual list of the “50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill.” The write-ups make for entertaining reading, thanks to The Hill’s vapid, breathless writing. I scoured the list to see if anyone from here is on it. Sure enough, we Midwesterners […]

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Swing State Project: By James L. Since taking office in 2005, Republican Governor Matt Blunt of Missouri has had a bumpy ride in his first term. He started off with a thud by cutting Medicare coverage to nearly 90,00, decimating a crucial service to many of his state’s most vulnerable citizens. Things were slow to […]

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Jeff Roe is committed to attacking judges. Thank goodness is standing up. A new Group was formed, Missourians for Fair and Impartial Courts. They are step up to ensure that the 3rd Branch of Government is not composed of partisan hacks, but intelligent folks who want to follow the law. This isn’t about frivolous lawsuits […]

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IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7/26/07 Contact: Tim Asher Cell: (816) 812-4929 “This is one of the most appalling abuses of a Constitutional Office I have ever seen” Grain Valley-Today the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative (MoCRI) filed a legal challenge to the unfair and inaccurate Official Ballot Title written by Secretary of State Carnahan and approved by Attorney […]

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The Missouri Political News Service tipline has been buzzing with a strange rumor lately. Readers, whom we assume are political insiders, have been asking us if prominent African American Republican attorney Jerry Hunter, “secretly runs MOPNS.” Hunter, a partner with powerhouse law firm Bryan Cave in St. Louis, is a confidante to both Governor Blunt […]

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“Baghdad” Tony Messenger’s acting ability is almost as bad as the flawed analysis he gives us daily. Messenger is feigning ignorance today on why we’ve affectionately named him “Baghdad” Tony Messenger. For those of you who are new readers, click here to be brought up to speed. Mr. Messenger, aren’t most journalists of a curious […]

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