2008

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…

With all the drama surrounding St. Louis Public Schools any discussion on the subject sounds like a marvelous notion to kick off some progress, so education professionals are preparing their thinking caps for the latest…

Attorney General candidate Chris Koster* landed another big union endorsement this week. The former Republican who is now seeking the Democratic nomination for A.G. has picked up the support of the 4,000-member Springfield Building and…

John Edwards told his group of supporters that one thing was clear from the caucus results tonight: the status quo lost and change won. Current results show Edwards in the second place behind Barack Obama…

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Senate Republicans today unanimously endorsed Sen. Charlie Shields, R-St. Joseph, to serve as President Pro Tem, the Missouri Senate’s top position, for the 95th General Assembly beginning Jan. 7, 2009. Shields must be elected to…

A fourth of St. Louis Public School students missed the first day of school (7,000 out of a projected enrollment of 28,000). Governor Matt Blunt and the man he put he put in charge of…

By Tomminesha Matchingtouch A special education advocate accused public school programs in Missouri and across the nation of having a “wait to fail” model when it comes to educating the learning disabled. At a St.…

The AP is reporting that Senator Claire McCaskill is going to endorse Barack Obama for President today. McCaskill has praised Obama often and was widely believed to favor the Illinois senator over Clinton. But the…