Political consultant Jeff Roe and K.C. Attorney Phil Levota discuss the Michigan and South Carolina primaries. Click here to listen

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RACHEL ANNE SEYMOUR/St. Joseph News-Press. Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee greets Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon. From JackeHammer blog: Will these unfounded recommendations never cease!? In Checks not a problem, city officials say, Didi Tang reported: “Contrary to a claim in the audit report that some checks had been outstanding for more than four years, […]

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By Don Corrigan As a journalism history teacher, I always enjoy the press accounts of tar and feathering from the Colonial era. After 1776, dollars replaced feathers, on occasion, to protest the value of the worthless currency paid to soldiers. Punishment by hot tar and a coat of chicken feathers was eventually deemed cruel and […]

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Credible sources are telling the Missouri Political News Service that Chip Robertson is the big name behind the lawsuit filed last week by Scott Eckersley against Governor Blunt. The lawsuit was signed by uber-plaintiffs’-attorneys (there’s that word again that I said I would never use) Steve Garner and Gene Graham, attorneys our sources tell us […]

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Mark Siettmann, of Axiom Strategies, commenting on efforts to get Huckabee supporters to Iowa. “We took over 50 people to Iowa. And when we can get 50 on a bus to Iowa, you can be sure we have a lot more than that.” (Hat tip: SNL Ozarks Opinions)

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When Missourians head to the polls this November for the general election, voters will have more than just two choices when it comes to candidates for many offices being elected. That is because the state recognizes three “established” political parties, with the Libertarian Party being the third. In this week’s Missouri Viewpoints interview, the group’s […]

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The Show-Me Institute will release a policy study today analyzing the fiscal effects of tuition tax credits in Missouri. SMI argues that tax credit programs have helped to reduce inequality of educational access in states where they have been adopted, and in many cases, they have also helped save taxpayer dollars by lowering the per-student […]

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By Timothy Sandefur On Thursday, January 17, I will be at the Missouri Supreme Court making the argument in City of Arnold v. Tourkakis. This is the case in which a small city south of St. Louis is trying to condemn the dentist office of Homer Tourkakis, so that they can construct the Arnold Commons, […]

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Piney Watering Hole (Houston Herald): A rural Missouri school district’s long-standing practice of allowing the distribution of Bibles to grade school students is unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled. An attorney for the school district said Wednesday he will appeal. For more than three decades, the South Iron School District in Annapolis, 120 miles southwest […]

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