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Study: Parents Stop Using Booster Seats Too Soon I gave mine up too soon. Arkansas Mulls Alcoholic Beverage Ballot Issue They’ve added spices to it and served it warm?
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Reminds Voters That Robin Carnahan Doesn’t Think You Can Handle Guns, Citizen
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch runs a piece that reminds the world that Robin Carnahan was behind the effort to defeat Proposition B in 1999: Democrat Robin Carnahan’s official campaign bio catalogs her feats in flying (she’s an instrument-rated pilot), endurance (five marathons) and farming (she runs the family cattle ranch). Nowhere in the U.S. Senate […]
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Can’t Spot The Difference. Can You?
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is wetting itself over another tax money sink, a trolley running through part of the Delmar loop: Four decades after they died off like transportation dinosaurs, streetcars took a big step toward returning on Friday as details emerged of a plan for a trolley line from the Delmar Loop to Forest […]
Misattribution
Electric Utility Peak Warnings issued for customers across Southwest, Mo.: Multiple utilities across southwest Missouri issued electric utility peak warnings due to the heat. No, the problems stem from malinformed Missouri voters who passed a constitutional amendment, what, fifteen years ago that mandates power companies produce 8% of their power from “renewable” sources and federal […]
Journalist Discovers System Gaming When He Doesn’t Like It
As masking controversy continues, election to recall Nixa Mayor Brian Steele set for November 2: The lede is the sixth journalistic W (What I Think Of It) before the other five: In a democracy like the U.S., a small band of committed voters can leverage major public debate, and sometimes change, through ballot petitions. Apparently, […]
Where, Exactly, Does She Live?
It’s supposed to be a heartwarming story of people getting out there and voting [the right way], I guess: Michigan woman travels 300 miles to vote: A 94-year-old Michigan woman went more than the extra mile to vote in this year’s election. In fact, [redacted] traveled over 300 miles to make sure her vote was […]
Moving Against One Man, One Vote, Once
Republicans want to make it harder for citizen petitions to change the constitution: Now Republican lawmakers are pushing back, especially on citizen changes to the state constitution, which they can’t reverse without voter consent. Among legislation floated this session are resolutions that would require petitions to get a higher percentage of votes to pass a […]
A Tale of Two Elections
In Springfield, the voters have voted the wrong way: As the votes were being counted, a group of opponents of the controversial E-Verify ordinance waited anxiously at a downtown bar. Marla Marantz, an organizer with Citizens for a United Springfield, watched the results trickle in on a laptop computer on a table near the east […]
A Tidbit from Ozarks Farm & Neighbor Spurs Rant
From the February 6, 2012, Ozarks Farm and Neighbor (registration and subscription required): With the release of the fourth quarter fundraising report, the Your Vote Counts Committee disclosed that the vast majority of their funding comes from the extremist animal-rights groups and donors from outside Missouri. The report, found on the Missouri Ethics Commission’s website, […]
So What Is Missouri Constitutional Amendment #1?
Downstate here, we have not seen any sort of advertising or much explanation of Missouri Constitutional Amendment #1, so voters are a little unclear on it. Let me do my best in layman’s terms to talk about it, and take the explanation with a grain of salt. Here is the text: Official Ballot Title: Shall […]
You Will Keep Doing It Until You Do It Right
Another electoral defeat for a tax increase just leads to a sequel, as the Christian County Library Board reanimates the undead and tries to get it on the next ballot: The Christian County Library Board is expected to decide this month whether to send a proposed property tax increase back to voters. If approved, it […]
Et Tu, Missouri?
No voter identification here: Missouri voters won’t need to show a photo ID at the polls after all, after the state Supreme Court today struck down the new requirement. A lower judge ruled last month that the ID requirement was an unconstitutional infringement on the fundamental right to vote. The Supreme Court agreed in a […]
Confession
My sophomore year in high school, I took a class in Creative Writing with Ms. Williams. It was Mrs. Williams, actually, much to the dismay of fantastic fifteen year-old boys. But I remember the class vividly. For an early exercise in creative writing, the delightful blonde nymph respected shaper of young minds, divided the class […]
But I Voted
I also voted a hearty, hi-ho, heck no, to the Metropolitan Sewer District’s bid to float a bond issue or raise taxes, or whatever MSD might have meant with this glurge: To comply with federal and state clean water requirements, shall The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) issue its sewer system revenue bonds in […]