2008

The City of St. Louis will balance its budget with a tax increase. Sounds like everything Republicans say about our Democratic city is not all untrue. While many different elected officials and editorials spoke out…

According to a story published just today on FirstAmendmentCenter.org, Charles Lee “Cookie” Thornton, who allegedly walked into the Kirkwood City Hall and shot seven people, including Mayor Mike Swoboda, had just lost a federal court…

Amid a growing distrust among her conservative Christian supporters of anything Islamic, Sarah Palin goes on record stating that Republicans and her ticket welcome all Muslims, adding “it is not acceptable in my book” to…

Missouri may have lost its reputation for accuracy in choosing the president (McCain is leading by less than 7,000 votes with thousands of provisional ballots still to be counted), but it definitely retained its status…

http://mccaskill.senate.gov/multimedia/042208mccaskill.flv On Tuesday, which was Equal Pay Day, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill joined several of her female colleagues in speaking on the Senate floor in favor of legislation that clarifies laws related to pay discrimination.…

As Democrats around the state begin to come down from the high of Barack Obama’s election as the next President of the United States, many are beginning to ask questions about what happened here in…

Perhaps the biggest winner of Election 2008 is Tina Fey and “Saturday Night Live”. Millions of viewers have made it a point to tune in each week to see the opening sketch, which will undoubtedly…

State Rep. Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D-University City) is one of the more liberal members of the Missouri Legislature, but that isn’t stopping her from throwing her support behind the Republican candidate for Attorney General — in…