Thursday’s weather looks to be clear and mild, and bicycling is a great way to beat the traffic jams at the Plaza lighting ceremony. While the Country Club Plaza isn’t ideal for bike parking, there are a few options besides trees and street lamps.
There is an indoor bike rack in [...]
On a relatively slow news day, a hot topic of discussion seems to be David Lieb's analysis piece for the AP about the personal relationship between Gov. Jay Nixon and Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder. There isn't a whole lot of new information in the articled, but I I' [...]
ZING!
Asked if he supported a sales tax hike to shore up Springfield's police and fire pension fund, newly minted Democratic State Senate candidate Michael Hoeman noted he wasn't a city resident.
But Hoeman went on to say he would've voted for the hike if he could've.
*WATCH Q & A ABOVE*
"I think" [...]
Sophie and her Grandpa Jim at Disney World last week:Meanwhile, back in Missouri, The PvtRn's brother is up from Texas. He is a master of the grilled onions, green peppers and hot sausage grilled over a hot Weber. Lil Jim's birthday was last week (he turned 33), [...] 
Sen. Claire McCaskill yesterday twittered this:
"If we printed the health care bill in regular size font it would be same legnth as Sarah Palin's book, but with more meat on the bone."
Snappp!
Nick Sloan isn't quitting after all . . . Sometimes a lack of commitment is a good thing, or at least that's what I tell just about every broad I know.' [...] Speaking at last night's term limits forum, Ed Martin let it slip that his "Term Limits for Missouri" organization isn't expected to gather enough signatures for the term limit initiative he filed last December.
"We could gather signatures. I don't know that we will," he said about his proposal [...]
The Lafayette County Republican Central Committee is proudly celebrating a new crazy billboard on I-70 near Grain Valley. It calls for citizens to "starve the beast" and "vote out incumbents" -- and if that doesn't work, "PREPARE FOR WAR."
It was a good thing I wasn't drinking coffee when Charles Jaco asked why Tea Partiers call their opponents socialist. The resulting outrage wouldn't have been good for my carpet or couch. We call our political opponents socialists and Marxists because they call themselves socialists and Marxists. If Jaco [...]
There are communists among this. Many younger people don't recognize or don't see it as a problem. Communism was defeated in 1989, and twenty years is a long time to worry about the ghosts of a Cold War.
But communism isn't dead. The ideology itself, abhorrent to anyone with an' [...]
The Federal Reserve, like a knight in shining armor, is riding forth to protect consumers from a fearsome dragon: gift cards that expire within five years from date of purchase.
If retailers are not informing customers about the terms and expiration dates of the cards, I can understand a regulation [...]
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Mo Rage doe
