The Scott County court clerk confirms a felony complaint has been filed against former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton for an incident that allegedly took place Nov. 15 in Sikeston, Mo.
Casenet says the complaint was filed today, a second degree assault charge. Sikeston police would not comment. The city [...]
The Simmons Firm
The region’s most prominent class-action law firm is reaching across the river to fuel a campaign-funding spending spree.
As Missouri legislators prepare to begin their new session next month, one East Alton law firm — Simmons Browder Gianaris Angelides…
[...]Another Oregon public school plans to become a charter. The ability to enroll students from other districts is an attraction, as it was for the last school I blogged about. But this time, the school also identifies funding as a reason to change its status.
A few years ago, [...]
Missouri Republican Party Communications Director Jon Prouty and Rep. Scott Diekhaus (R-Washington) have both tweeted their outrage today with comments from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who said opponents of health care reform are on the wrong side of history, like opponents of women's suffrage, civil rights [...]
At this morning's news conference, we asked Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale if the clock showed :01 or :00 at the end of the Texas-Nebraska Big 12 title game Saturday:
"Fairly, it did appear there was one second on the clock," Gale said.
Who can we thank for Whitey Herzog’s election to the Baseball Hall of Fame? Ed Martin, of course.
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When I first saw this headline about school district employees in the Kansas City Star, I thought the article would be a classic example of a Kinsley Gaffe:
KC school district has about 1,000 employees too many, official says
But it’s even better than that, because the new Kansas City [...]
Our own Dave Roland published an op-ed in the Springfield News Leader today, “Reports say charter schools aid state’s struggling students.” He discusses a recent study by the Show-Me Institute demonstrating that the proliferation of charter schools is a desirable policy for Missouri and for the country.
Thanks [...]
Somehow, amidst the politically charged health care discussions, it seems that some have overlooked one practical thing: If the health care insurance rolls increase, as some expect, will there be enough doctors in the future? The number of graduates from U.S. medical schools has been constant at about 16,000 per [...]
Sowers
ST. LOUIS — Local Democrats are throwing a Central West End fundraiser for Tommy Sowers, the young special-forces vet who is running for the Congressional seat representing Southeast Missouri.
Sowers, 33, ran counterinsurgency operations in Iraq, winning a pair of Bronze…
[...]Four area secretaries of state held a morning news conference at the World War I Museum to tout recent changes in federal law designed to make it easier for servicemen and women to vote.
Among the changes: Member of the military can obtain a blank ballot (and registration forms) [...]
This Springfield News-Leader editorial is absolutely correct:
It’s not like this family is forcing their products on anyone. They’re simply trying to meet a demand, like a good business is wont to do.
The family in question sold raw (unpasteurized) milk from their farm, as is legal in Missouri. Then, their [...]
JEFFERSON CITY | Longtime Prime Buzzards may remember a 2007 blog post about a certain prominent Kansas City political consultant moving to a certain classy Northland neighborhood.
And if those longtime Prime Buzzards have especially good memory, they may recall that for a short time, the blog post included a photo [...]
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas (and we're not just talking about the giveaways in Congress.) Enjoy...
The Star has an update three years into the transition to K-8 schools. Former superintendent Tony Amato led the initiative to abolish middle schools and move those students into K-8 buildings. So far the data shows big drops in discipline problems and great improvements in test [...]
The Springfield Business Journal published an interview with Seventh Congressional District candidate Billy Long today in which Long continues to differentiate himself from Roy Blunt’s record (1) as a career politician and (2) prolific earmarker.From that interview:
[Q:] Why did you decide to enter politics as [...]
NBC Action News: Police say they found a man who had apparently been beaten to death lying in the driveway of a Raytown home Monday morning. [...]
Rep. Roy Blunt doesn’t seem to miss many high society events in Washington. Last night, he attended a White House reception for the 2009 Kennedy Center honorees: Bruce Springsteen, Mel Brooks, Robert De Niro, Dave Brubeck and Grace Bumbry. The Washington Post captures a laugh between Blunt and [...]
Speaking this morning on CBS’ “The Early Show,” Sen. Claire McCaskill called out Republican senators for their work to slow down and kill health care reform efforts. The Senate GOP has steadfastly refused to produce a real plan for reducing health care costs and expanding access, but has produced [...]
from Reuters
COPENHAGEN - The biggest climate meeting in history, with 15,000 participants from 192 nations, opened in Copenhagen on Monday with host Denmark saying an unmissable opportunity to protect the planet was "within reach."
"The world is depositing hope with you for a short while in the history of mankind," Danish [...]
NBC Action News profiles a local lothario in one of the most unlikely places: "A man with a history of smooth-talking women into becoming his girlfriend in order to swindle them out of nearly $100,000 has allegedly struck again." [...] 
Yikes! After months of supporting and pandering the ‘tea party’ activists, a new Rasmussen poll shows that a hypothetical “tea party” is actually more popular than the Republican Party in a generic Congressional ballot. From Rasmussen’s summary:
In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen [...]
Taking a moment to remember Pearl Harbor
Has the U.S. become a warmonger?
Health care reform is the next big issue for Nixon
A documentary on the national Tea Party movement is in the works, the debate over the judicial selection process is expected to be back on [...]
Credit to The Star . . . A weekend look at the West Edge fail was fairly informative as it brought to light yet another way advertising has nearly ruined Kansas City. [...] 
Unemployed pros are pushing out housewives and students for holiday temp work as box stores have their pick among desperate people. [...] For your Monday morning amusement/confusion, here's one of the least persuasive anti-reform commercials imaginable, starring Rep. Rob Schaaf (R-St. Joseph):
The goal of the ad seems pretty straightforward, though bizarre: to convince opponents of health care reform that they’re somehow oppressed by the 12% of people who told Rasmussen right after [...]
ST. LOUIS – Alderman Sam Moore, a first-term Democrat who represents the Ville neighborhood, reacts to news that Sumner High — whose students have included Chuck Berry, Arthur Ashe and Tina Turner – could be closed by the school district.
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Jenny V. has a nice listing and a bit of description of local luxury chocolate places on her foodie blog. The post is worth a peek for the non-diabetics and other d-bags who think they're too good for M&Ms.' [...] 
Nick Sloan has a nice post which considers Tiger Woods and his alleged mistress who worked at Perkins. 
U.S. Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond, R-Mo., is likely to make news this week as the Senate continues its health care debate.
Exactly how isn't yet known.
But for weeks, the outspoken comments of Missouri's most veteran incumbent statewide official on various topics -- from cap and' [...]
I’m a huge advocate of elected officials using Twitter to communicate with constituents. But for Mayor Slay to use Twitter to suggest a change in a department under his authority seems odd:
If I could text complaints to the CSB, I could attach photos taken by my phone. How about it, [...]
The Star’s Kevin Collison has an in-depth analysis of the West Edge project, the giant unfinished office/hotel/retail complex on the west side of the Country Club Plaza. It’s an interesting look behind the scenes of the local development industry.
Kevin does a mostly good job, but does leave out a [...]
