By Rob Luke JEFFERSON CITY — A Missouri Supreme Court ruling last Thursday looks like a short-term financial blow to incumbent GOP Gov. Matt Blunt in his re-election bid next year. But longer-term campaign financing for Blunt and his likely Democratic challenger, state Attorney General Jay Nixon, isn’t expected to be seriously impacted by the […]

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Kudos to Greg Young, a citizen activist who cares about the way his-and your- tax dollars  are  being spent. For many years, Greg Young would read a newspaper and turn to his wife, Donna, and complain when he found something that aggravated him. On Nov. 10, 2005, Young came across a story that motivated him […]

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You have to read it to believe it. No matter what your opinion is on embryonic (the distinction was not made in the AP article) stem cell research you must admit the bias is blatant.

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By Rob Luke ST. LOUIS — At least former Missouri Democratic House Minority Leader Jeff Harris will now have to spend some of that campaign cash he’s socked away for his run at state attorney general in 2008. Democratic State Rep. Margaret Donnelly of suburban St. Louis ended speculation by declaring herself a candidate for […]

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Senator Bond was a guest this week on Fox News Sunday with his fellow Senate Intelligence Committee member Democrat Evan Bayh of Indiana. Bond is vice chair of the powerful committee. Also appearing on the show was Homeland Security Director Fran Townsend. See video here.

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GOP House Speaker Rod Jetton is term-limited and therefore cannot seek re-election next fall. But you’d never know it from his most recent Missouri Ethics Commission filing, which reads like the report from a burgeoning young campaign that’s just getting its feet underneath it and its office set up. Read more… Related: Tip Line: Reader […]

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Just when this controversy was starting to die down a little, Fox News over the weekend had a debate regarding controversial K.C. parks board appointee Frances Semler. The debate took place between talk show host Mike Gallagher, and a spokesman for the Hispanic Chamber of commerce. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/GlYCWub5_kU” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

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Arch City Chronicle: Attorney General Jay Nixon’s Former Deputy Chief Counsel Steve Brown Files For 73rd District Nephew of Sue Shear Runs for Her Old Seat ST. LOUIS — Steve Brown, former deputy chief counsel for Attorney General Jay Nixon and nephew of legendary Representative Sue Shear, announced today his intention to run for Shear’s […]

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By John Elliott I find it enlightening to see how quickly letter and editorial writers across Missouri are to push our elected leaders to return to the failed, antiquated policy of excessive spending as the sole means for solving problems. It seems to me that the government can never be satiated, that it can never […]

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Secretary of State Robin Carnahan has exercised tremendous liberty in drafting the language for the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, so much in fact, that organizers will mount a legal challenge to amend the official ballot title through the circuit court of Cole County as prescribed in Missouri Revised Statute 116.190. “We have ten days to […]

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