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In the wake of Friday’s agreement on spending for the rest of the 2011 fiscal year, it’s worth reflecting on how far Democrats were forced to come from their initial offers on how to respond to Americans’ message to Washington to get the country’s fiscal house in order. During the first week of February, Senate […]

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It looks like another front has been opened up in Aldermanic President Lewis Reed’s war of words with his fellow elected Democrat officials. Reed, who called last week for state Senator Maria Chappelle Nadal to resign and who has put up a mean spirited Facebook page attacking her, is a little miffed that St. Louis […]

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The AP reported yesterday, “Congress sent the White House its first rollback of the new health care law on Tuesday, a bipartisan repeal of a tax reporting requirement that was widely unpopular with businesses. The Senate voted 87 to 12 to repeal a requirement that would have forced businesses to file tax forms for every […]

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Geez! After the recent ‘Air Claire’ disaster, you would think these people would be on their P’s and Q’s??? I called Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Washington DC office around 12:45pm yesterday (while I was at the prolife lobby day in Jefferson City, MO because I was listening to Abby Johnson speak and she said call your […]

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“Missourian’s paid their taxes, and if there’s debt, Missouri kids and grandkids will pay that debt off.” –Gov. Jay Nixon Over the past few weeks, Republican state senator’s Jim Lembke and Brian Nieves have been leading an effort to prevent Chinese money, including a 20-week extension of unemployment benefits from 79 weeks to 99 weeks, […]

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  The New York Times reports, “The Obama administration, ending more than a year of indecision with a major policy reversal, will prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other people accused of plotting the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks before a military commission and not a civilian court, as it once planned. Attorney General Eric H. […]

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Polls have consistently told us over the years that city and county voters are fiercely opposed to a merger between the two. Is this a backdoor way to have the public accept a merger proposal in the future? 2011: “This is a regional economy, it’s not a city economy and a county economy,” Slay recently […]

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On Friday, The Hill reported, “Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is betting that as many as 15 Senate Democrats will back a GOP-led bill that strips EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. His estimate of Democratic support is far above what is widely believed and would put the measure — which might receive a Senate vote […]

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