The Star: Authorities charged three people Friday with murdering 23-year-old Carol A. Thomas, who was abducted and shot this week. [...] 
The Star reports on a 2 year-old movie that sounds sort of interesting given that local Jazz connection. [...] 
New Kansas City restaurant Element is opening without a liquor license thanks to panicky Crossroads neighbors and the local reasoning that uses the term "hip-hop" to stomp all over the rights of people of color. [...] 
In a tragic accident, a car wash is owned by Congressman Emanuel Cleaver was the site of a runaway SUV car wreck. It's not more important than any other fatal car wreck but will probably be used as yet another worthless teabagger political point. [...] 
Fourth District Congressman Ike Skelton, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, will be one of the guests on the CBS show Face the Nation Sunday morning. [...] Crepes in the City, a popular downtown eatery, closed last month month after only a year in business. New owners are taking over the space and plan to reopen with the same menu and name. Changes will be minor. For example, more comfortable seating, I’m told.
Each weekend the line was [...]
David Humphreys of TAMKO in Joplin, contributed $10,000 to Republican state auditor candidate Thomas Schweich, according to a 48-hour report filed Friday with the Missouri Ethics Commission. [...] 
Frequent bus riders will know that 3 of my 4 brothers live in Florida. I'm not sure why, they just do. 
Congressman Ike Skelton will appear on CBS' Face the Nation Sunday. Other guests on FACE include: Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Republican political consultant Ed Rollins. Get the entire Sunday Morning Show line-up HERE.***Meanwhile: On' [...] West St. Louis County townships provided more votes last Tuesday in St. Louis County for banning smoking in indoor public places, but the strongest sentiment for the ban came from townships in the central part of the county.
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KMBC: "While the recession is supposed to be over, the unemployment rate has broken through the double-digit 10.2% barrier in October." [...] 
Good job to NBC Action News who obtained a copy of the P&L District discrimination report that TKC readers previewed on Halloween. [...] MoDOT Director Pete Rahn has received a well-deserved award from Governing Magazine for his work at MoDOT. I eagerly second the award. (A quick note on Governing: I used to read it regularly. You might assume that most of the writers and readers here, coming from a free-market perspective, would [...]
JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri’s plan to cut about 100 state parks workers has been scaled back, according to the Springfield News-Leader’s Chad Livengood. After various workers exercised seniority rights and jobs were moved around, only 48 jobs were cut, according…
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Opting not to shoot his farm-raised fowl at the Ozark Wings Hatchery and Hunting Preserve in Caulfield, Roy Blunt and friends will be hunting for birds Monday morning just outside of DC at an NRSC fundraiser. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) promised earlier this week that [...]
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ST. LOUIS — Alderman Joe Roddy is known around City Hall for a wry sense of humor, using his perch as one of the board’s senior members to take lighthearted cracks at his fellow lawmakers.
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7th District Republican Congressional candidate Michael Wardell called Sen. Gary Nodler's comments about the influence of lobbyists on campaigns "astounding" and said it exemplifies "so many of our problems."On Thursday, while explaining his endorsement from Washington, D.C. lobbyist Gregg Hartley, Nodler told The Notebook that lobbyists [...] 
JEFFERSON CITY — The day after Secretary of State Robin Carnahan announced that her office has made past state Blue Books available online, Sen. Kevin Engler, R-Farmington, has issued a news release repeating his past call to do away with the…
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Missouri Republicans hopped all over the new unemployment rate Friday, which hit double-digits for the first time in 26 years. GOPers said the 10.2 percent jobless number proved that the Obama administration's massive economic stimulus package failed to accomplish its intended goals, eight months after [...] The House Committee on Education and Labor has a neat-o interactive widget summarizing the benefits of the House Dems' health plan for different groups.
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The Kansas City Star reports that on Sunday, the state’s Department of Revenue began enforcing a 4-percent tax on yoga and Pilates classes. Why the change? Missouri officials have decided that yoga and Pilates are places of “amusement, entertainment or recreation” and therefore taxable, rather than spiritual practices that [...]
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