The Pitch: By David Martin A few weeks ago, Kansas City, Missouri’s City Council let a piddly $36,000 contract with an engineering company bloat all the way up to $22 million. (You read that right: three additional zeroes.) That same day, the council held up a nonprofit group’s measly $125,000 funding request. Care to guess […]
Entries from September 2007
Haves, Have Nots: Here’s a Little Tale About Two Kansas Cities
September 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Kansas City · Mayor Mark Funkhouser
Old Soldiers Never Die; They Just Run for Office Again & Again….
September 13th, 2007 · No Comments
It seems former state representative, congressional and state auditor candidate Col. Jack Jackson, is aiming to be his party’s Claire McCaskill in combat boots. We should have seen this coming with the Jetton/Jackson “upstage the governor tour” earlier this summer. Republican insiders are asking today why would Speaker Jetton – who makes the arrangements and […]
Tags: Decision '08 · Matt Blunt · Spkr. Jetton
You Mean Democrats Can Be Uncle Toms Too?
September 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Fellow slaves whipping another slave at the “Massa’s” behest Tomorrow is the deadline for newly appointed St. Louis City Public Safety Director Charles Bryson (an African American – and Democrat) to “discipline” the African American fire chief Sherman George for refusing to make mandated promotions. The civil rights “industry”- and the mainstream press – have […]
Tags: Mayor Frances Slay · St. Louis
Do Not Pre-Judge Chief Sherman George
September 13th, 2007 · No Comments
St. Louis Metro Sentinel: Too often, the process for judging a person is breached by the major media, just for trying to be number one in the media or trying to influence those who follow the media. In particular, it appears that when a Black man attains a position of prominence, such as Fire Chief […]
Tags: Mayor Frances Slay · St. Louis
“Baghdad” Tony Messenger Sees No Evil, Hears No Evil, Speaks No Evil
September 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Since Baghdad Tony has woken up and discovered Missouri’s “Sunshine Law” in his recent posts, we asked him yesterday when he was going to write about Judge Stith and the judicial panel’s recent disregard for the Sunshine law? You know, the violation Judge Stith admitted to in Tuesday’s Senate Rules Committee hearing. Here’s Baghdad’s response […]
Tags: Media Bias · MO Supreme Court · Tony Messenger
Is This What You Get for $7,500 a Month?
September 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Two posts since August 15th? We expected a lot more from Peter Kinder and internet guru David All.
Tags: Decision '08
Speeding Tickets, Taxes, and the “Politics of Driving”
September 12th, 2007 · No Comments
KMOV News 4 Investigates: Daily Briefing: So what did you do with your Friday night? A fella by the name of Brett Darrow spent a good chunk of it driving around in his Nissan Maxima, running a radar detector and recording video from a camera mounted over his shoulder. Why would he want to do […]
Tags: David Stokes · Show Me Institute · St. Louis · Videos
UMKC Editor Pushing “Gay Agenda?”
September 12th, 2007 · No Comments
University News “culture editor” Jessie Burche, certainly has been a good friend to the campus’ LBGT community. For those of you not up to speed, LBGT stands for lesbian, bi-sexual, gay, and transgendered. Mr. Burche informed us three weeks ago that the University of Missouri-Kansas City was declared by The Advocate College Guide for LGBT […]
Tags: Kansas City
Messenger: “Have They No Shame?”
September 12th, 2007 · No Comments
“Are there any state public officials who believe in the Sunshine Law? Any at all? It appears not after the Missouri Ethics Commission of all groups appears to have clearly violated the open meetings law in deciding how to force candidates to comply with campaign donation limits. I don’t care which way they rule on […]
Tags: Decision '08 · Tony Messenger
Mortgage Company Executive Challenges Carnahan in ’08
September 12th, 2007 · No Comments
By Greg Giroux Republican Chris Sander, a mortgage company executive, has filed papers with the FEC to prepare a campaign for the seat held by two-term Democratic Rep. Russ Carnahan. Carnahan, a son of the late Gov. Mel Carnahan and former Sen. Jean Carnahan, was first elected in 2004 to succeed Democrat Richard A. Gephardt, […]
Tags: Carnahans' · Decision '08