“Baghdad” Tony Messenger – besides his laughingly inept analysis of the new media and his own industry in general – demonstrated yesterday his crack reporting skills and why he’s saddled at a third rate newspaper: “Oops. One comes across a John Hancock and assumes it is THE John Hancock. Well, not THAT John Hancock, but […]

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By Phil Sutin CLAYTON — St. Louis County “will work something out” to resolve a zoning dispute and allow the Islamic Community Center organization to build at a site in south St. Louis County, County Executive Charlie Dooley says. After Tuesday’s County Council meeting, Dooley walked up to four people who had spoken out against […]

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As we are all aware by now, the second quarter ended recently, which means a flurry of campaign finance reports have floooded the newspapers and the blogosphere. The Missouri Political News Service has purposely failed to mention or report the results. One, as we wrote above, other publications will report the results to you. And […]

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It was part of a piece on Midwest congressional races:  Missouri’s 6th (Northwest — St. Joseph, part of Kansas City). Republican Rep. Sam Graves and Democrat Kay Barnes, a recent former mayor of Kansas City, are headed toward an expensive showdown in a district where the Democrats did not seriously compete in recent election cycles. […]

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Photo courtesy of FiredUp Missouri FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: (573) 636-6060 Missourians Encouraged to Take Action: Stop Judges from Legislating from the Bench Advocacy Effort Hopes to Shine a Light on Appellate Judicial Commission by Encouraging Citizens to Say NO to an Activist Court (Jefferson City) – The non-partisan, not-for-profit Adam Smith Foundation announced a […]

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Washington, DC – House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) released the following statement today concerning the new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland: “In hindsight, we should have concentrated our efforts on Al Qaeda in Afghanistan from the beginning. We missed an important opportunity when Bin Laden […]

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JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Matt Blunt’s support for hard-working Missourians was reflected today in campaign finance reports showing that the governor widened his fundraising lead over Jay Nixon, a candidate who prefers to hide from Missourians rather than discuss his liberal vision for the state. Today’s quarterly campaign finance reports show that Gov. Blunt increased […]

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Peter Kinder’s campaign learned a hard lesson today. They learned what can happen when you hire out of town “whiz kid” consultants who don’t have a lay of the political landscape of their clients. David All, Kinder’s “new media” consultant, has been very aggressive at courting the Missouri blog-o-sphere – so aggressive in fact – […]

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From Missouri Politics: Today I received a very nice e-mail from Peter Kinder. Dear Editor MOTO, I just wanted to follow up on my blog posting on Friday afternoon…. You can reach me at (573) 751-4727.  I look forward to talking with you soon. Peter How flattering! I am not a silly blogger though – […]

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By John Gizzi The surprising statement by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D.-Mo.) last week that U.S. involvement in Iraq is “squandering the lives of our bravest” and “squandering the future of our nation” came under sharp fire from both the White House and a congressional colleague of McCaskill from the Show-Me State. Both White House spokeswoman […]

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