MVI averages official electoral votes for statewide offices and compares the county-level totals to the statewide averages. The [...]
Lost in all the back and forth in the nonstop health debate this weekend was a late night procedural vote that put a lot of Senate Republicans on record as voting against money for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Among them: Kansas’ two Republicans, Sens. Pat Roberts and Sam [...]
Schools in the City of St. Louis, and in much of the region, need help to improve performance and perceptions. On December 17th the state took action to help one such district:
The Missouri Board of Education today voted to merge the Wellston School District in St. Louis County with the [...]
Republican Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder was the lone "no" vote on a Missouri Housing Development Commission proposal that would use state dollars to pay the property taxes of income-eligible homebuyers next year. The vote on the $35 million dollar plan was 7 to 1. The [...] Things just got a little messier in Topeka. A group representing 60 public school districts in Kansas voted unanimously today in Salina to ask the state Supreme Court to reopen a landmark lawsuit that prompted the Legislature to budget hundreds of millions of dollars more for schools.
If the high court decides [...]
At this morning's Missouri Housing Development Commission (MHDC) meeting, Lt. Governor Peter Kinder cast the only vote against a proposal to pay the first year of property taxes for working families making less than $98,000 a year who purchase a new or existing Missouri home [...]
The Missouri State School Board voted today to close the Wellston School District. Wellston students will be Normandy students after this school year.
Normandy is only provisionally accredited; its student MAP scores are better than Wellston’s, but not by much. Normandy has shown admirable willingness to accept new students; however, [...]
Colleen Wasinger
St. Louis County Councilwoman Colleen Wasinger, R-Town and Country, says Metro should have more oversight if county voters approve a half-cent sales tax for the transit agency on April 6.
Wasinger wants the county council to require that Metro do…
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A new Rasmussen telephone survey of 500 likely voters shows some slippage in Roy Blunt's performance against Robin Carnahan in a hypothetical general election contest, though the difference between the candidates is still within the margin of error (+/- 4.5%).
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey [...]
The decision that senators make can be fraught with consequences.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Twitter, spent a couple hours yesterday answering phone calls from Missourians. How she intends to vote on health care reform was a popular topic.
“One caller said I would go to hell if I voted yes,” [...]
Dan Lee
JEFFERSON CITY — Casino executive Dan Lee had a bad day. But he didn’t violate any state laws or gaming regulations.
That was the conclusion today of Missouri gambling regulators, who voted to let the former Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. chief…
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Via MPNblog.com, I see that Vicky Hartzler thinks climate change and global warming is just one great big "hoax."
Given the importance of military issues and voters in the 4th District, maybe Hartlzer can explain why Pentagon planners now officially consider global warming a threat to [...]
Sen. Claire McCaskill was one of three Democratic votes over the weekend to reject the $1.1 trillion end–of-the-year spending bill.
It still passed, even with the Democrats’ no-room-for-error margin. Sixty votes are necessary these days to pass any bill laden with controversy and avoid a potential filibuster.
The bill squeaked [...]
Ninety-five percent of the readers that voted in the poll last week agree that the City of St. Louis needs new zoning. 95%!
Q: Kansas City, Denver and other cities are replacing their old zoning codes to reflect current views/vision. Should St. Louis replace its 1947 zoning code?
Yes, we need zoning [...]
Glenn Burleigh, the communist who heads Missouri ACORN, has been identified as the media consultant for the Jefferson County Dispatch 911 campaign. Glenn's work with Jefferson County elections (he assisted SEIU member Mike Frame's campaign) was part of a targeted strategy from the Missouri ProVote board to put progressives in [...]
Rep. Cynthia Davis is no longer running for State Auditor, as she's told the Missouri Ethics Commission. Instead, she's endorsing House Budget Chair Allen Icet over the insufficiently conservative (in her mind) Thomas Schweich. KY3's Dave Catanese has the details:
"I don't understand how Republican voters could support' [...]
