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• "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: your Friday news dump

  This is the twenty-first post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB Your Friday news dump from the office [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:14pm EST
  

• Missouri Blue Book hullabaloo

  Typically, the announcement of the reproduction of 80+ years of Missouri in online form would go unnoticed by most people who are not somehow thrilled by these events (you know, history enthusiasts and the such). But Kevin Engler, fresh off his heroic stand against litter, is making a stand to [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:09pm EST
  

• Health insurance profits aren't anemic

  Figures lie and liars, well, you know. Liars in the health insurance industry are going to plenty of trouble to disseminate their latest lying figures. The Post-Dispatch printed them a week ago Monday, in an AP news article. Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:24pm EST
  

• "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: nothing succeeds like success

  This is the twentieth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB At the end of 2007, with a [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:40pm EST
  

• Did your mommy teach you to write thank you notes?

  The House vote on health care legislation, scheduled for Saturday, precedes the Thanksgiving break. HCAN (Health Care for America Now) is urging St. Louisans to turn out and thank the two St. Louis Congressmen who will vote in favor of it: Lacy Clay and Russ Carnahan. Next Monday, Nov. 9, [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:19am EST
  

• The tipping point

  Like many of you, I had become anesthetized by the overabundance of TV specials on global warming, climate change, or whatever you want to call it.  I figured, at my age, what's to worry about?  I'll be long gone when NY City and Miami are under water.  It's up to' [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:17am EST