Missouri

updated 12:05 a.m.

Why Cynthia Davis fumes about educational reform.

Earlier in the week I wrote about State Rep. Cynthia Davis' diatribe about the Department of Education's Race to the Top grant program. Two events today, however, have helped me to better understand the source of Davis', and, I think, general conservative hysteria about public education. The first of these events was the decision of the The Texas State Board of Education to revise American... ...
Show Me Progress - Sun 12:03 a.m.

Let's fudge a little on the First Amendment, shall we?

That First Amendment will make you crazy. It's like we have a choice between protecting free speech (down with dictators!) or keeping corporate money from buying elections for the wealthy (down with the oligarchy!). But censoring corporate speech without weakening the First Amendment is nigh onto impossible, according to William Freivogel. Freivogel, a former editor at the Post-Dispatch whose... ...
Show Me Progress - Sat 12:47 p.m.

One-note McCaskill - and it's not always the right note

While digging around on the Web, I came across a couple of blog posts concerning Claire McCaskill. In response to a letter concerning the miscues of Democrats in Congress, McCaskill sent the blogger this response boasting about her wise stewardship of tax dollars - and addressing none of the concerns about which the blogger had contacted McCaskill. This inappropriate, one-note response struck me.....
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Health Care Reform: republicans freaking out edition

Leave it to republicans. Our friends at Fired Up posted on this Twitter item by Renee Hulshof, spouse of former Congressman and unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate Kenny Hulshof (r): My husband is convinced that the dems will get healthcare passed. This educated prediction from him is freaking me out. [Note: according to Twitter - "This person has protected their tweets."] Huh? Why, because......
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These things sometime happen when you afflict the comfortable

The March 11 issue of the Muleskinner, the weekly student newspaper at the University of Central Missouri, included a front page article on an unfilled Missouri Sunshine Law request pertaining to the search for a new president for the institution. This morning a significant number of newspapers were scattered about the University's visitor lot (and the University president's designated parking... ...
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Eyes On the Street

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STL Rising - Fri 6:27 a.m.

Roy Blunt should give it a rest

Roy Blunt may be a little too obsessed with Robin Carnahan; she may not be quite as powerful as he thinks. According to Big Bucks Blunt, he is opposing not "Obamacare" which seems to be the bane of most members of the Party of No, but Carnahan's government takeover - as he twittered earlier: According to @RasmussenPoll 60% of Missourians support our position on health care. Only 37% want... [[...
Show Me Progress - Thu 10:00 p.m. - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Jane Cunningham's tenther bill and Missouri's uninsured

Earlier, I noted that State Senator Jane Cunningham attended Todd Akin's kill-health-care-reform pep rally to push her Health Care Freedom Act. This bill would put a constitutional amendement on the Missouri ballot this fall that is based on fringewingers' wistful reading of the tenth amendment, which they insist permits states, Civil War to the contrary, to opt out of federal legislation they... ...
Show Me Progress - Thu 3:01 p.m. - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Fixing the leaky roof

I don't know why the President let the Republicans get eight months ahead of him in selling health care reform to the public. Now that he's started, though, he's saying all the right things. He needs to convince people that if we don't make these changes, even middle class people who currently have health insurance are going to be priced out of the market. And he needs to allay their fears that,.....
Show Me Progress - Thu 12:48 p.m.

Education – Kansas City Style

The plan will leave the district operating 33 schools, the fewest in 120 years. The district’s enrollment in 1889 was less than 18,000 — the same as its current enrollment. At its peak in the late 1960s, Kansas City was using more than 100 buildings and serving some 75,000 students. – Kansas City Star As the school system in Kansas City, Missouri takes the national stage it...
DailyKos (Missouri) - Thu 11:24 a.m. - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Cynthia Davis doesn't want us to race to the top - she likes the view from the bottom

I wait with the proverbial baited breath for each and every one of State Rep. Cynthia Davis' (R-19th) Capitol Reports; I am filled with anticipation to learn just how absurd her latest effort to deal with the complexities of government will be. Her most recent effort (printed here at The Turner Report) does not disappoint. It brings us Davis' musings on educational reform, specifically the Race......
Show Me Progress - Thu 10:03 a.m.

Butter and Lemon go great with this:

Dungeness crab is a rare treat. You can get it fresh out on the west coast, or frozen here in St. Louis. If you steam the frozen ones, they still taste very good. Served with melted butter, garlic, lemon, white wine and french bread and you have a great meal. More and more regional delicacies can be found here in St. Louis. It's a nice add-on to our quality of life. A Dungeness crab has...
STL Rising - Thu 6:40 a.m. - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Missouri unemployment - January 2010

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for January 2010: ...The largest over-the-month decreases in employment occurred in Missouri and Ohio (-12,800 each), followed by Kentucky (-11,800), New Jersey (-9,100), Florida (-6,100), and Nevada (-5,700). Kentucky (-0.7 percent) experienced the largest over-the-month percentage decrease in employment, followed by Missouri and Nevada (-0.5 percent....
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Arch Design Competition "Statements of Intent"

Design philosophies for the nine competing Stage Two design teams have been published on the City + Arch + River Competition website. Statement of Intent PDFs ...
STL Rising - Thu 4:47 a.m.

Todd Akin holds a pep rally - calls on divine intervention

Since President Obama was to be in St. Louis today on Wednesday pushing for health care reform, Rep. Todd Akin (R - 2nd) thought he would jump the gun and rally the president's right-wing foes via a video town hall in St. Charles. Attended by about 2,200 people, the event consisted of presentations of the same ol' same ol' talking points by Akin and a handful of other retrograde Missouri... [[ ...
Show Me Progress - Wed 10:23 p.m. - 4 clicks 4 clicks

A barn burner

At St. Charles High School in suburban St. Louis this afternoon, Barack Obama laid out the argument for the health care reform bill. He was thorough. He was clear. He made that audience understand that we must have reform and that we can, even in these recessionary times, afford it. Indeed, we can't afford not to have it. I'll write more tomorrow about how he laid out that argument, but right... ...
Show Me Progress - Wed 7:23 p.m. - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Robin Carnahan (D) in Washington, Obama in St. Louis

Sometimes the scheduling just doesn't work out. I'm not in St. Louis for President Obama's visit. I wanted to be. This from the Kansas City Star on March 9th: ....Since she [Robin Carnahan] also has a couple of campaign fundraisers scheduled while she's in the capital, Zakula said the campaign is paying for the trip. Still, the president is not the most popular guy in Missouri, lately. He only....
Show Me Progress - Wed 5:40 p.m. - 4 clicks 4 clicks

A tribute to a middle school principal

From someone else it would sound corny but when Joplin East Middle School Principal Ron Mitchell greets his faculty each year, the message always carries a potent punch: “We’re not here to teach math,” the tall, chrome-domed Mitchell says. “We’re not here to teach science or social studies…We’re here to teach children.” ...
DailyKos (Missouri) - Wed 5:40 p.m. - 5 clicks 5 clicks

Even Bill Nelson wants Reconciliation

Via HuffPo's Ryan Grim, even Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) supports passing the public option through reconciliation: Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) became the 41st senator to say that he would back the public insurance option as part of a health care bill moved through reconciliation. Nelson, asked by HuffPost if he would vote for a public option on the Senate floor, was unequivocal. "Yes," he said firmly.......
Show Me Progress - Wed 2:08 p.m.

Can-do attitude

In the early part of the last century, St. Louis was growing rapidly. Lots of buildings were going up and streets were being widened. In downtown Dutchtown, property values were increasing and the area was thriving with activity. One block south of Meremac, off an L-shaped alley on the west side of Virginia, there's a relic from those busy times. A family operated a tin shop up on Meramec....
STL Rising - Wed 6:02 a.m. - 7 clicks 7 clicks

Senator Kit Bond (r) was for reconciliation before he was against it

Via Think Progress, the usual suspects: ...Senator Kit Bond: The Constitution says nothing of the subject of filibuster and it says nothing of the power of a minority to defeat the president's judicial nomination.... ....It is the product of a rule of the Senate, passed many years after the ratification of the Constitution. This rule does not derive from the authority of the... [[ This is a...
Show Me Progress - Wed 5:28 a.m. - 7 clicks 7 clicks

Vicky Hartzler (r) in the 4th Congressional District - campaign finance

Show Me Progress - Tue 6:49 p.m.

Bill Stouffer (r) in the 4th Congressional District - campaign finance

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A reasonable facsimile of Baltimore

This snug row of buildings along Broadway, just a little southwest of the Off Broadway night club, has always been one of my favorites. The grade of the street and the turn in the road reminds of the style of architecture you see all around Baltimore. Some say St. Louis is the "western-most eastern US city", and buildings like this show it. The historic collection is located in the Marine ...
STL Rising - Tue 6:20 a.m. - 6 clicks 6 clicks

Candidate filing review for 3/8

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Eiler view

STL Rising isn't the most tech savvy blog around. In fact, it's probably one of the least. So we are just now figuring out how to upload pictures from an old camera phone to the internet. At the end of last week, a commenter on the River City post requested pics of the cool views we found there. So, the team here at STL Rising did some homework over the weekend and we are now able to provide...
STL Rising - Mon 3:01 p.m. - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Vicky Hartzler (r) in the 4th Congressional District

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"Cynthia Davis rule: Ignore hungry kids, force-feed comatose patients"

Show Me Progress - Mar 7 - 6 clicks 6 clicks

Another great moment in political stenography

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Laying siege to the banks

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Candidate filing review for 3/5

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Manifesto falls victim to the Dalzell fall, Pizza Bella hangs on

Manifesto, Ryan Maybee’s popular and critically-acclaimed speakeasy, has fallen victim to the collapse of the Dalzell restaurant group.  Manifesto is located in the basement of the closed 1924 Main restaurant and apparently operated under  the restaurant’s liquor license.  The bar’s Facebook page indicates they hope to reopen, but don’t know [...]...
BlogKC - Mar 5 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

HCR 69: the republicans have no clothes!

Show Me Progress - Mar 5 - 7 clicks 7 clicks

Sitting on Claire's chest

Show Me Progress - Mar 5

Views from River City impressive

With over $400 million invested, the new River City Casino in South County raises a lot of curiosity. To find out more about it, I ventured over there this morning for a look. The location is rare in St. Louis: a true riverfront setting. Just south of the confluence...that is the confluence of the Mississippi River and River Des Peres, you find it: an entertainment oasis equal to or super...
STL Rising - Mar 5 - 7 clicks 7 clicks

Kelly’s roof deck opening Friday

A new rooftop deck is opening Friday atop Kelly’s Westport Inn. Actually it’s on top of Joe’s Buy the Slice Pizza, just behind Kelly’s – so technically is preserves the historic integrity of the oldest standing building in Kansas City.  The 1,000 square-foot deck will hold a hundred-some people and will [...]...
BlogKC - Mar 4 - 6 clicks 6 clicks

Candidate filing review for 3/4

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A secret plan to reform the Government

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Stop pushing for a public option

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The Art and Science of Demolition

With gentrification the topic of tonight's City Affair, here are some random things to consider... St. Louis city population has dropped from 800,000 + persons to 350,000. Our region has a stable population, with a 50 year history of people moving to the suburbs. The result is a lessening demand for our older housing stock, creating an inventory of vacant and abandoned buildings in the urban co...
STL Rising - Mar 4 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

New Chamber CEO might not ease regional tensions

Exchanging Leawoodie Pete Levy for Mission Hillbilly James Heeter probably won’t do much to stop the growing consensus that the City needs put itself first going forward. News reports are making a big deal out of new Chamber of Commerce CEO James Heeter being a former KCMO City Councilmember and [...]...
BlogKC - Mar 4 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

The Art and Science of Demolition

STL Rising - Mar 4 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

HB 2276: take that, you union thugs

Show Me Progress - Mar 3 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Candidate filing review for 3/3 and a Get Well Soon

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City vying for super-fast Google broadband network

Last week the City Council formally endorsed an application to be a test city for Google Fiber for Communities, the company’s plan to build its own high speed Internet networks around the country.  The gigabit/second speeds would be 100 times faster than most DSL and cable modem lines. Competition will be fierce. Our suburban neighbors in [...]...
BlogKC - Mar 3

Missouri Compromise

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Jim Bunning (r) bunts into a triple play, sort of

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Using the vacated television broadcast spectrum to bridge the digital divide in rural America

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Domestic terrorists take heart from trial of Tiller murderer

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Candidate filing review for 3/2

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Anonymous commenters say the darnedest things...

Over at STL Today, there is continuing discussion on the editorial about planning for removal of the I-70 lanes through downtown. An anonymous commenter (posting under the pseudonym name "Renew STL") hits the nail on the head with this comment: "Big Ups to the Post for supporting this idea. There is a great amount of positive energy working in STL right now, and it will lead to great things. ...
STL Rising - Mar 2 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

ACORN vindicated

Show Me Progress - Mar 2 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

The fruits of last weeks labor

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I-70 commuters screwed this year

If you commute on I-70, get ready for a long year as two big construction projects will make driving very painful: The I-70/I-435 intersection is getting completely rebuilt. Eventually there will be six full lanes under I-435, reducing one of the metro’s biggest freeway bottlenecks. Several bridges are being rebuilt between the [...]...
BlogKC - Mar 2

We're all Sally Quinn now

Show Me Progress - Mar 2

Rural Communities and the Cost of Doing Nothing

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Blacks, gays, you name it, Missouri university president will discriminate

DailyKos (Missouri) - Mar 2 - 6 clicks 6 clicks

Listen-up Claire McCaskill - Missourians support Cap-and-Trade

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Kelly and Tilley want to put Missourians to work

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Candidate filing review for 3/1

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Blunt got the most money from big banks.

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"...most heedless example of highway planning in the age of urban renewal."

St. Louis Post Dispatch on removal of I-70 lanes adjacent Arch, riverfront. ...
STL Rising - Mar 1 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

The cost of doing nothing

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"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: project much?

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Constitutional Amendment Could Take Away Local Control & State CAFO Standards

Show Me Progress - Feb 28

Tom Schweich and Saying Sorry

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Chain down the loose cannons.

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Pass. The. Damn. Bill.

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Remember, Remember the 24th of December

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Liz Lauber's Delusions of Grandeur

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Wheels of justice turn slowly in case of rape/murder of nine-year-old

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 27 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Best healthcare in the world?

Show Me Progress - Feb 27

Wheels of justice turn slowly for accused rapists/murderers of nine-year-old

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 27

Ike Skelton - et tu Brute?

Show Me Progress - Feb 27 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Libertarian Show-Me Institute not good with the money

Libertarian think tank The Show-Me Institute is missing hundreds of thousands of dollars that was apparently stolen by an employee taking advantage of lax internal financial controls. The St. Louis Riverfront Times has the story. The Show-Me Institute is highly critical of government agencies and their management of public money, especially the [...]...
BlogKC - Feb 27 - 5 clicks 5 clicks

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: a phone call from out of the blue

Show Me Progress - Feb 26 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Chief Corwin dispels some Waldo/Brookside rapist rumors

Rumors are running wild on some of the Facebook groups organized to talk about the rapist.  The “Let’s Get This Prick” group is getting especially out of control riding the line between vigilant and vigilante.  KCPD Chief Corwin dispels some of the rumors on his blog and explains that there [...]...
BlogKC - Feb 26 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Black in Waldo/BKS roundup

It sounds like a lot of Waldo and Brookside folks are basically calling the police every time they see a black man on their street.  And a guy that tried to take the law into his own hands almost got himself nominated for a Darwin award. Meanwhile, no one is organizing vigils for two sexual [...]...
BlogKC - Feb 26

Roy Blunt on the Health Care Summit

Show Me Progress - Feb 25 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Candidate filing review for 2/25

Show Me Progress - Feb 25

Public option? We don't need no stinkin' public option.

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"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: Who's the more foolish...

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Health Care Summit Dumping Ground

Show Me Progress - Feb 25

Sprawly annexation up for a vote this afternoon

Update: The annexation fails 5-8. Yeas: Ed Ford, Russ Johnson, Beth Gottstein, Cindy Circo, Mark Funkhouser. Nays: Deb Herman,  Bill Skaggs, Melba Curls, Sharon Sanders-Brooks, Jan Marcason, Terry Riley, Cathy Jolly, John Sharp Today’s 3:00 p.m. City Council meeting will likely include votes on the Tomahawke Ridge annexation… ...
BlogKC - Feb 25

Northland Sun stops publishing

Sun newspapers has suspended publication of the Northland Sun Tribune, which covered northern KCMO, Gladstone, Parkville, etc.  For the moment, Sun continues to publish newspapers in Liberty, Smithville, Johnson County, and south KCMO. Business Journal: NPG Newspapers suspends publication of the Kansas City Northland’s Sun Tribune ...
BlogKC - Feb 25

DREAM Act 2010

Today I had a hearing on SB783 , the DREAM Act, in front of the Senate Education Committee . The legislation makes certain students eligible for instate college tuition regardless of their immigration status. The bill creates the “Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act,” otherwise known as the Dream Act. The legislation requires any higher education institution in Missouri ...
Jolie Justus - Feb 24 - 5 clicks 5 clicks

An entrepreneurial idea

Show Me Progress - Feb 24

Candidate filing review for 2/24

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7 of 9 Missouri Congressmembers vote to repeal Health Insurance anti-trust exemption

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Call McCaskill - let her know she's got something to lose.

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CasiNO

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HB 2139, et al: Rep. Chuck Gatschenberger (r) takes it for a spin...

Show Me Progress - Feb 24

Insurance lobbyists plan three fundraising soirees in nine-day period for Roy Blunt

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 24

Fake Katie Horner on Twitter

BlogKC - Feb 23 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

PenroseOnPolitics: Troughin' With Senator Bond

Show Me Progress - Feb 23

Mark Parkinson: Legislative Supergenius

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First Day Filing Review

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March Forth on March Fourth

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Residents going online to organize against the Waldo/Brookside Rapist

BlogKC - Feb 23 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Keeping Missouri Coal-Dependent

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The chronically corrupt Jackson County Legislature

BlogKC - Feb 23 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

It's candidate filing season

Show Me Progress - Feb 23

University board member resigns after "fag lion" comment

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 22

Claire McCaskill: Part of the problem

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"Oho, the Wells Fargo wagon is a-comin' down on the Dow"

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Priorities

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Waldo Rapist moves into Brookside?

BlogKC - Feb 22 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

East Riverfront Improvements

While this blog has focused a lot of attention on the Missouri side of the river, the National Park Service has made plans to improve the east riverfront a focus of its new General Management Plan for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. Just as St. Louis has spent years trying to figure out how to reconnect the city to the riverfront and Arch grounds, there has been a lot of attention ...
STL Rising - Feb 22 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Missouri chooses irresponsible tax cuts over responsible taxation

Show Me Progress - Feb 21

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: fools rush in...

Show Me Progress - Feb 21

Win in '10: Senate Carnahan (D) vs. Blunt (R)

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 21

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: fools for spin

Show Me Progress - Feb 20

Desperate times call for ...

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Because quitting early as governor of a small state and being fact challenged is the ultimate cool?

Show Me Progress - Feb 20

Roy Blunt on government and jobs

Show Me Progress - Feb 19

Communes rixatrices ... but they just can't help it.

Show Me Progress - Feb 19

Dueling rankings say KC is simultaneously awesome and miserable

BlogKC - Feb 19

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: and we should give weight to your opinion...

Show Me Progress - Feb 18

Photo For a Friend

STL Rising - Feb 18

The last big push for health care/insurance reform - take it to DC

Show Me Progress - Feb 18

HB 2176: Rep. Jim Guest (r) is late with the "tenther" drivel

Show Me Progress - Feb 17

Dunkin' Donuts coming to the MO suburbs

BlogKC - Feb 17

Riverfront Boulevard Plan Reconnects City to River

"City to River", a citizens group formed to advocate for improved connections between downtown St. Louis, the Arch grounds and the riverfront, has developed a plan to reconnect the city to its historic riverfront through the creation of a new Memorial Drive. Check out the group's proposal at the new City to River website . ...
STL Rising - Feb 17 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Because Missouri education professionals only teach our children

Show Me Progress - Feb 17 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

A march on DC, named for Melanie

Show Me Progress - Feb 16

Two kinds of cities...

...those with symbols and those without. St. Louis has a symbol: the Fleur de Lis. Can you think of any other cities with a symbol? Big cities? Does Denver have a symbol? What about Austin, Nashville, Portland, Seattle, LA or San Francisco? I don't think any of those places have a unique symbol. They all have flags , but are they recognized by a symbol? What does it say about St. Louis th...
STL Rising - Feb 16 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

123rd Legislative District: Patty Johnson (D) announces

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Melanie Shouse's memorial service

Show Me Progress - Feb 15

Enemy of the people or people are the enemy?

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Senator Kit Bond (r): the White House smacks back...again

Show Me Progress - Feb 14

State senator's opposition to Don't Ask, Don't Tell designed to appeal to Missouri bigotry

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 14

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: never mind the facts, here's right wingnut talk radio

Show Me Progress - Feb 13

A moderate Republican

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Rule of law in a nutshell

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1924 Main is the next Dalzell restaurant to close

BlogKC - Feb 13 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Senator Claire McCaskill (D): A Twitter flurry with the media...

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Third verse, same as the first: THIS SHT NEEDS TO BE UNIVERSAL!!!

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City Budget proposes more cuts, modest tax increase

BlogKC - Feb 12 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

City Street Parties Coming in 2010

These promise to be fun and healthy unique city events. ...
STL Rising - Feb 12

Which is harder: Fix the Public Schools or Build a New Memorial Drive?

The debate over the city's public schools has gone on for a long time. Everyone wants to see them improve. Many people are working to make them better. A new Memorial Drive is a dream for some of us. Like fixing the public schools, it's a complex challenge too. So, which do you think is more doable? Fixing the schools or building a new Memorial Drive? Which do you think is more complicated?...
STL Rising - Feb 12

Why we're losing the message war

Show Me Progress - Feb 12

Women of Color and the Anti-Choice Focus on Eugenics

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 12

From Allen to Claire

Show Me Progress - Feb 11

Carondelet Impressions Rising

Twice now in the past 24 hours, I have heard the name, "Carondelet" on the radio. This is more than I can remember hearing it in the past 6 months. And this is only the beginning. The new River City Casino is about to open, and advertisements on major radio stations are telling people to exit I-55 at the Carondelet or Germania exits. Everytime you hear the name Carondelet or Germania, you are r...
STL Rising - Feb 11

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: a different choice of phrase would have made it all better

Show Me Progress - Feb 11

No noodle Nodler

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Voter ID Debate Weathers Storm: Bill Passes in S.C., another Brews in Missouri

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 11

Repower America: Going to the Wall

Show Me Progress - Feb 10

Senator Kit Bond (r): "Respect my @&%$in' authoritayyy!"

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McCaskill "Asks" R Legislators in Missouri Which Stimulus Money They Want to Give Back.

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 10

Interesting twist provides scenario to resolve Tomahawke Ridge sprawldivison controversy

BlogKC - Feb 10

Local chef Debbie Gold on Top Chef Masters

BlogKC - Feb 10 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

City + Arch + River Design Competition Update

For Immediate Release: ST. LOUIS -- Contest organizers today announced the names of nine design teams selected to advance to the next round of the competition to invigorate the park and city areas surrounding the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. The lead designers and design teams are: Behnisch Architekten, Gehl Architects, Stephen Stimson Associates, Buro Happold, Transsolar, Applied Ecological Se...
STL Rising - Feb 10

Roy Blunt Hit Where it Hurts

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Roy Blunt's flirtation with Sarah Palin

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 10

"Speed Camera Enforced"

Could signs like these soon be rising in neighborhoods across St. Louis? STL Rising hopes so. Reducing speeding traffic on residential streets has been a long time effort here at STL Rising. The host of this blog has served as a St. Louis regional contact for the Keep Kids Alive - Drive 25 program for almost ten years. Just this week we received a telephone call from a nice lady in Univers...
STL Rising - Feb 10 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

No shame, no gain

Show Me Progress - Feb 9

Senator Claire McCaskill (D): What portions of the stimulus funds do Missouri republicans not want?

Show Me Progress - Feb 9

VoteVets calls out Roy Blunt with $600,000 ad campaign

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How to save the state a bundle

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HB 1781: High Noon in the capitol

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Tough revenue picture

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"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: a simple question

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R.I.P., Corner Restaurant

BlogKC - Feb 8

Missouri state senator on the prowl for perverts in the classroom

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 8

Bandits terrorizing the suburbs

BlogKC - Feb 8

Missouri senator on the prowl for perverts in the classroom

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 8

Snow 2.0 coming, City asks residents not to park on the street

BlogKC - Feb 7 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

National event open thread

Show Me Progress - Feb 7

Should we listen to the wingnuts about Melanie?

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Robin Carnahan's opinions

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Editorial on pollution permit fees

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Don't blame teachers when violence hits our schools

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 6

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: a conversation with the Muleskinner

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Fixing the deficit vs. fixing the economy

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Linked Deposit progam helps small business owner

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Yes, you can pollute the river for a price (a small price)

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Missouri legislators approve amendment requiring drug testing for themselves

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 5

Energy efficiency equals job creation and home improvement

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Missouri legislators approve amendment requiring random drug testing for themselves

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 5

Fitting for a Friday

STL Rising - Feb 5

President Obama on Melanie Shouse: "How can I say to her, 'You know what? We're giving up'"?

Show Me Progress - Feb 4

Even more shameless posturing from Senator Kit Bond (r)

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The heat is on against Koster's appeal of CAFO ruling

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Senator Kit Bond (r): "Apologize, who me?"

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HB 1952: an extension of vote caging techniques?

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Comparing the intelligence of these guys to that of plants insults plants.

Show Me Progress - Feb 4

Chinese New Year at the Nelson

BlogKC - Feb 4

Chinese New Year at the Nelson

BlogKC - Feb 4

Missouri representative Davis: Tea Party yes, All-Perot choice- not a chance

DailyKos (Missouri) - Feb 4

The pro-Tomahawke response

BlogKC - Feb 3

The pro-Tomahawke response

BlogKC - Feb 3

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: those people from Denmark, you know, the Dutch

Show Me Progress - Feb 3

February 2, 2010 Missouri House Special Election Results

Show Me Progress - Feb 3

Senator Claire McCaskill (D): Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on DADT

Show Me Progress - Feb 2

Karma strikes again

Show Me Progress - Feb 2

Carnahan tiptoes into combat waving a fiscally responsible banner

Show Me Progress - Feb 2

End the Ban

Today I introduced a Senate Concurrent Resolution urging the Missouri General Assembly to send a message to Washington, D.C., that it is time to end the outdated military policy known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." The following is the text from my floor speech. I will post the language of the concurrent resolution as soon as it is available online. This summer I had the privilege of attendi...
Jolie Justus - Feb 2

Trucks on a new Memorial Drive

One of the biggest concerns about merging I-70 and Memorial Drive through downtown into one at grade boulevard is what would happen with the trucks? The answer is simple. Trucks would either be allowed on the new boulevard, which is the way it is now, or the road would prohibit through truck traffic. Today, as I was driving on Memorial Drive, I was next to a full size, semi tractor-trailer rig....
STL Rising - Feb 2

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: welcome to the party, four months late, part 2

Show Me Progress - Feb 2

Sprawl vs Sustainability showcased in KC this week

BlogKC - Feb 1

Sprawl vs Sustainability showcased in KC this week

BlogKC - Feb 1

Death of an activist

Show Me Progress - Feb 1

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: welcome to the party...

Show Me Progress - Feb 1

The lucky homeless

Show Me Progress - Jan 31

Representative Denny Hoskins (r) is feeling picked on

Show Me Progress - Jan 31 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

KC Design Week

BlogKC - Jan 31

KC Design Week

BlogKC - Jan 31

Time for a big piece of humble pie

Show Me Progress - Jan 29 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

President Obama engages in a battle of ideas with unarmed Congressional republicans

Show Me Progress - Jan 29

Dr. George Tiller

Show Me Progress - Jan 29

Ingredient now open on the Plaza

BlogKC - Jan 29

Ingredient now open on the Plaza

BlogKC - Jan 29

Senator Claire McCaskill (D): try as you might, you can't do much when you're in the minority party

Show Me Progress - Jan 29

"We don't quit."

Show Me Progress - Jan 28

Republican legislature robbing the middle class

Show Me Progress - Jan 28 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Missouri Republicans say SOTU to you too

Show Me Progress - Jan 28

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: a lesson on how not to attempt damage control, part 2

Show Me Progress - Jan 28

It isn't torture, except it is and it works, except it doesn't

Show Me Progress - Jan 28

Urban Mining

There was a time when mining was common practice in St. Louis. Mostly, mining was done for clay to make bricks. And back then, people probably didn't think of it as "urban mining". In those days, there wasn't much if any focus on the difference between "urban" and "suburban". Pretty much everybody lived in the City. Or on a farm. If anything, the difference was between "urban" or "rural". ...
STL Rising - Jan 28 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Gov. Tim Kaine in St. Louis

Show Me Progress - Jan 28 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Time to Strengthen DWI Laws & Expand DWI Courts

On Wednesday I filed SB836 , legislation to combat repeat drunk driving. The bill closes a loophole that allows multiple convictions without a central reporting mechanism, it institutes harsher penalties based upon the level of intoxication, it mandates minimum jail sentences for offenders, and it provides courts the authority to establish a DWI Court for offenders with alcohol problems simil...
Jolie Justus - Jan 27

The end of the republic

Show Me Progress - Jan 27

Those ethical PR people

Show Me Progress - Jan 27

McCaskill should get some backbone

Show Me Progress - Jan 27 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Claire McCaskill: Wimpiest. Senator. Ever.

DailyKos (Missouri) - Jan 27

79th Legislative District: January 2010 campaign finance reports

Show Me Progress - Jan 27 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Missouri legislators and columnist to live-tweet State of the Union

BlogKC - Jan 27

Missouri legislators and columnist to live-tweet State of the Union

BlogKC - Jan 27

Akin, Luetkemeyer Heart James O'Keefe

Show Me Progress - Jan 26

"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: a lesson on how not to attempt damage control

Show Me Progress - Jan 26

What's good for the goose ...

Show Me Progress - Jan 26

ptdb

Show Me Progress - Jan 25

Soulmates

Show Me Progress - Jan 25

1st Legislative District: January 2010 campaign finance reports

Show Me Progress - Jan 25

Rex Sinquefield's earnings tax petitioners out in force

BlogKC - Jan 24 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Rex Sinquefield's earnings tax petitioners out in force

BlogKC - Jan 24 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Words of praise for Claire

Show Me Progress - Jan 24 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

54th Legislative District: January 2010 campaign finance reports

Show Me Progress - Jan 24 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

113th Legislative District: January 2010 campaign finance reports

Show Me Progress - Jan 24

PenroseOnPolitics: Stan and Ida

Show Me Progress - Jan 24

Cleaver on health care reform

BlogKC - Jan 23

Northland sprawl proposal to move forward today

BlogKC - Jan 23 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

KC Restaurant Week benefits Harvesters

BlogKC - Jan 23 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Pitch finally publishes piece on Armour Boulevard crime wave

BlogKC - Jan 23

Snowgasm open thread, city officials to discuss snow plowing

BlogKC - Jan 23

KC burger rage goes international

BlogKC - Jan 23

Great rebuttal to the Pitch's Hyde Park story

BlogKC - Jan 23

First batch of Ripple Glass has been recycled into insulation

BlogKC - Jan 23

I-70 among country's worst commutes

BlogKC - Jan 23

City Council discusses snow plowing

BlogKC - Jan 23

"Extreme Makeover - Riverfront Edition"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE St. Louis, Missouri "Extreme Makeover - Riverfront Edition", a new reality show based in St. Louis, Missouri, begins production this month for airing in the spring of 2010. "Extreme Makeover - Riverfront Edition" will showcase the efforts of the National Park Service and the City of St. Louis to revitalize the historic Mississippi Riverfront, the Gateway Arch, and d...
STL Rising - Jan 22 - 4 clicks 4 clicks

Southwest Avenue outdoor dining expansion planned

STL Rising - Jan 22

Reality Programming - Arch Design Competiton Q and A

Organizers of the Arch design competition have recevied lots of questions from Stage One participants in the process. Here are highlights from the questions and answers received to date: Q67: What role will the Casino play in the project? January 19, 2010 – 2:28 pm A67: Design and operational parameters of this specificity will be discussed with the Stage III participants at the Stage III Bri...
STL Rising - Jan 22

Fixing the hail problem

STL Rising - Jan 22

Slay, by a yawn

Here's how things look to me in the St. Louis primary election to be held a week from today: Democratic Primary All the so-called "smart money" is on St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay to win renomination and reelection easily. I think the election will be closer than most people expect, but that Slay will still win. Slay enters the campaign with enormous advantages: Financing . The last repo...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

McCaskill suffers wasted hit over ‘card check’

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) wasted some of her political capital this month defending the “card check” provision of the proposed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). That provision would have required employers to recognize a union as soon as a majority of workers signed cards saying they wanted a union, without a secret-ballot election. While supporting that provision in a conference call with Miss...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

RIP, Compassionate Conservative

Former President George W. Bush coined the term "compassionate conservative" when running for his first term. It turns out he never was compassionate as most of us understand the term, and his administration's moves to nationalize banks with its TARP program also undercut his claim to have been conservative. Bush has ruined the brand for the foreseeable future. Yesterday, the nation lost a politi...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

Solving that vacant building problem

STL Rising - Jan 22 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Downtown's Year-End Economic Stimulus

STL Rising - Jan 22

Reconnecting the city to the riverfront

STL Rising - Jan 22

Neighborhood Association Promotes Architectural Guidelines

With the help of an architectural student, the City of St. Louis, and a local urban planner, the Southwest Garden Neighborhood Association has established a set of recommended architectural guidelines to foster new development and existing building renovations, "The Southwest Garden Neighborhood Association's Suggested Architectural Guidelines for Exterior Facades". Washington University archi...
STL Rising - Jan 22

Urban St. Louis Forum Goes High Speed

One of St. Louis' best issues forum is now also one of her fastest. Urban St. Louis has always been filled with interesting discussions and information, but the site was so painfully slow that it was almost impossible to access. Those problems have now been solved, with all the interesting discussions continuing at the site. STL Rising will permalink Urban St. Louis on our links section. I...
STL Rising - Jan 22 - 8 clicks 8 clicks

Holiday Special

STL Rising - Jan 22 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Arch Design Competition Begins Today

Efforts to reconnect the Arch, the Riverfront and Downtown St. Louis begin today. The chosen method begins with an international design competition. The design competition program will lead to a plan for repositioning the way the Arch connects to the region. That plan comes with the possibility of substantial federal funding to make the project reality. Among the world's most famous landmarks, ...
STL Rising - Jan 22 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Ignore party base at your peril

Unprincipled "win at any cost" advocates received a bipartisan jolt of reality this week in Maryland. Two incumbent congressmen, one Democrat and one Republican, who strayed from their parties' ideological principles by staking out "moderate" voting records, were overwhelmingly defeated for reelection. Neither could draw more than a third of the vote in their own primaries. Congressional Quarter...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

Is mystery Coleman filing a Mac attack?

The mysterious last-day filing of attorney Denise Watson-Wesley Coleman for mayor in a field that was supposed to include another Coleman, Sen. Maida Coleman, has lots of fingers pointing at Mayor Francis Slay for encouraging the former to serve as a stalking horse to hinder the challenge of the latter. Slay vehemently denies any connection. The motivation for the Slay camp is clear: Split the vo...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

The disheartening fall of Jeff Smith

This week, State Sen. Jeff Smith (D-St. Louis), State Rep. Steve Brown (D-Clayton) and Nick Adams, a graduate student who served as Smith’s campaign treasurer in his 2004 congressional campaign, pled guilty to federal charges concerning a cover-up of their involvement in illegal (but less serious) coordination of that campaign with purported “independent expenditures” by a separate one-man committ...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Big banks’ ‘briar patch’ strategy

Remember the Uncle Remus fairy tale in which Br’er Rabbit pled to his captors not to throw him into the thorny briar patch, the very place the conniving rabbit wanted to be all along? Representatives for big banks seemed to have that tale in mind when they cried crocodile tears and warned of disastrous consequences if Congress passed the so-called credit card reform bill. The banks got their secr...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

Chronicling the digital divide

STL Rising - Jan 22

Meet the author: Nini Harris at Urban Eats

STL Rising - Jan 22 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Open Letter to Participants in Arch Design Competition

STL Rising - Jan 22 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Dems should be wary of Specter party switch

There's "less than meets the eye" in the surprise switch of Sen. Arlen Specter (PA) from Republican to Democrat. All the talk about Specter giving the Democrats the magic 60th vote (counting the expected seating of Democrat Al Franken of Minnesota) overlooks the fact that the Democrats already had Specter's vote in every meaningful vote this session, including the stimulus bill and the budget. Mo...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

Koster ‘pays back’ mentor Nixon with whitewash of E.coli scandal

Attorney General Chris “The Imposter” Koster swept the first major scandal of Gov. Jay Nixon’s Administration under the rug. What a team player! The scandal involved the Nixon Administration’s Department of Natural Resources’ month-long delay in releasing the results of the May monthly water quality tests taken at Lake of the Ozarks until after Memorial Day weekend, so that tourists (mostly from ...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Ballpark Village Residential

STL Rising - Jan 22

Jury Selected for Arch Design Competition

STL Rising - Jan 22

National 2010 preview: candidate recruitment is key

This appears to be one of those times when a mid-term election will be an important trendsetter. The 2010 elections will determine whether President Obama is able to translate his personal popularity into a generation-long realignment that gives the Democratic Party - and especially its progressive wing - total control over government policy, or whether the public will react negatively and pare b...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

Obama's very own 'Willie Horton' ad

“I’m Barack Obama, and I approved this message.” Those words may be the most damning of this contentious presidential campaign, the ones that cost Obama my vote. They appear at the end of a disgusting, ageist attack ad released this weekend by Obama for America. In a campaign susceptible to appeals that are racist (against the African America Democratic nominee), sexist (against the female Repu...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Sotomayor is good progressive court pick

President Obama is to be congratulated for his nomination of 2nd Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Sotomayor’s record of decisions is encouraging. The only question mark is the absence of a record on abortion rights. Some have raised the prospect that, as a Hispanic Catholic, Sotomayor could actually provide the decisive vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. It wouldn’t be t...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

Dual milestones for racial equality

On January 20, 2009, the United States inaugurated its first African American president. I need not repeat what so many have observed how this is the successful culmination of the struggle of African Americans to overcome the stigma of slavery. The American Dream has become a reality for what was once the most oppressed class of our citizens. Ten days later, a second, less visible achievement de...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

Obama-Biden: It’s numerologically correct!

Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting Barack Obama’s pick of Deleware Sen. Joe Biden seeks to complement Obama where he is perceived to be weak – foreign policy. Obama’s message to the public is clear: Biden’s the guy who will take the 3 a.m. phone calls. (I guess the red phone has call forwarding.) My friend and fellow blogger (and newly elected Democratic committeeman) Antonio French obs...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

Obama transparency: How about campaign finance?

Accusations are circulating about possible illegal campaign contributions to President Obama’s successful campaign. They are quite serious on their face, but the President could nip the problem in the bud by being as forthright and open as he has promised to be. Most of the charges are chronicled in an online article at conservative news site Newsmax.com. (Though infused with loaded rhetoric, ...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

St. Louis gets a new center hall

STL Rising - Jan 22

NPS clears way for 2010 Arch design competition

STL Rising - Jan 22

Obama stronger nationally against McCain

Here's something for undecided superdelegates to consider. According to comparative polling by Rasmussen Reports in 29 states, Barack Obama runs stronger against Republican John McCain than Hillary Clinton in 21 states, while Clinton is stronger than Obama in 8 states. Missouri, though, is one of Clinton's eight. Perhaps more significantly, there are five states (Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico, Ore...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Planning to build markets

STL Rising - Jan 22 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

Not just a vacancy. A vacuum.

It isn’t exactly a Pulitzer Prize worthy observation to note the obvious, that Sen. Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy (D-MA), who succumbed to brain cancer this week at the age of 77, will be sorely missed. Almost anyone who served in Congress’ senior chamber for over 46 years would be missed after they were gone, but Kennedy was something special. Kennedy, in spite of his privileged background, was a pri...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

Some 4-letter options for John McCain

No, not that kind of 4-letter word. Names. As I noted in my previous post , Democrats have adopted the “10-letter strategy” that Republicans have used in all seven of their wins over the past ten presidential elections. The surnames of Nixon Agnew, Reagan Bush, Bush Quayle and Bush Cheney all added up to 10 letters. Now, for the first time in 84 years, Democrats have selected a 10-letter tick...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

I want a 3-car garage...

STL Rising - Jan 22 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Analysis of Slay's primary win

Mayor Francis Slay won renomination for a third term by a larger margin than I expected. (I correctly predicted the order of finish, but anybody could have done that.) What happened and what does it say about next month's general election? This election was a rematch of the 2005 primary (with a different third candidate). In most rematches, the winner repeats with a larger margin than before. Thi...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

Special interests wreck 'cap and trade' bill

Last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed the so-called American Clean Energy and Security Act (commonly referred to as “cap and trade”), but what it passed was a severely watered-down version that takes only the smallest steps toward reducing greenhouse gases. While it may be marginally better than no act at all, it fails the people in these ways: The bill’s targets are far less ambit...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

Rhode Island effort to reconnect city, river

STL Rising - Jan 22 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Locations for Transit Oriented Developments

STL Rising - Jan 22

Guide for watching presidential returns

Barack Obama enters Election Day with a six point lead in national polls measuring popular vote. But, as Al Gore supporters well remember from 2000, the electoral vote is all that matters. States whose polls close first in the eastern time zone will provide plenty of clues as to the actual winner. State-specific polls indicate an approximate order of finish, from strongest Obama to strongest McCa...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22

And now for a new front door....

STL Rising - Jan 22

LA Football Stadium in Planning Stage

STL Rising - Jan 22

Why No Pipe Organ at College Church?

STL Rising - Jan 22 - 2 clicks 2 clicks

Does Steelman inspire gender backlash?

The (apparently) last pre-primary survey of the Missouri governor’s race by Survey USA (released August 1) discloses an interesting non-event: In the high-visibility contest between Congressman Kenny Hulshof and State Treasurer Sarah Steelman in the Republican Primary, there is little or no difference in how the candidates perform with male and female voters. While the typical partisan gen...
St. Louis Oracle - Jan 22 - 3 clicks 3 clicks

"Just Plain Wrong"

Show Me Progress - Jan 22