JEFFERSON CITY _ Two-term Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour will be the featured speaker at the Missouri Republican Party banquet at 7 p.m. on Friday, February 8 honoring Gov. Matt Blunt during the 109th Missouri Republican Lincoln Days at the University Plaza Hotel in Springfield. “In a year of great opportunities for Missouri Republicans, we are […]

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  Eugene Doaks, Republican St. Louis County Council candidate The Missouri Spectrum PAC, a new auxiliary of the Missouri Republican State Committee, is holding a complimentary meet and greet reception in St. Louis on January 31st (Thursday) at the Drury Plaza Chesterfield. (355 Chesterfield Center East) The event, scheduled to start at 6:30 pm and […]

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Has Montee performed another “friendly” audit for a fellow Democrat? From Wake Up Call Missouri: St. Peters is involved in a project known as Lakeside 370. The city began purchasing land for the project in 2000 and has purchased 1552 acres for a total of 9.1 million. Montee reports that the city did not obtain […]

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Sources tell MOPNS that Democrats who dislike Jay Nixon — a famously flawed candidate — are quickly organizing to decide what to do in light of Matt Blunt’s decision not to seek re-election. Word is surfacing that Democrats “in the know” see this as an opportunity to take back the state. They reportedly believe Nixon’s […]

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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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Hat tip: JackeHammer What was Susan Montee’s biggest concern about the audit on City Utilities? Could City Utilities be breaching the Missouri Constitution? What is now contingent on the citizens because of the audit? Do the audit suggestions have to be followed? Is City Utilities supposed to be non-for-proffit? What should take place in open […]

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Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal: Professor Hazinski is worried about citizens practicing journalism for themselves–exactly what citizens did during the colonial and revolutionary period of American history. He’s so worried that he’s willing to entertain the idea that the professional institution of journalism should regulate citizen journalism–something like herding cats, I suppose. From his column in the […]

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From Wonkette.com: Welcome to Congressional Catfight. Through several highly scientific Wonkette reader polls, we will determine who is the most insane, badass, bitchiest congresswoman out there. We’ve drawn up a list of eight competitors, who will be pitted against each other in a series of no-holds-barred catfights. For now, let’s plunge straight into the action. […]

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The News Muse: Jean Maneke, the Missouri Press Association’s legal counsel, writes in the December issue of Missouri Press News that the state fails miserably when it comes to appealing denials of sunshine requests. That should come as no surprise to anyone who has tried to appeal a a denial. The failing grade comes from […]

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The Pathway: It is the sort of thing we’ve come to expect at places like the University of California at Berkley where atheistic Marxists are on faculty, or at Princeton University in New Jersey, a school founded by orthodox Presbyterians which now hires faculty who value animal life more than human. Such institutions of “higher […]

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