Commissioners in Dent County, Mo., made it clear they’re not interested in having the federal government sticking it’s “nose” into the business of area land owners. In a Feb. 24 letter to Matt Meacham at West Plains (Mo.) Council for the Arts — the local front group for the National Park Service effort to designate [...]
Entries from February 2011
Missouri Land Owners Continue Fight Against ‘Ozarks National Heritage Area’ Designation
February 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment
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Soldier Seeks Refuge in the Black Forest (Update)
February 28th, 2011 · No Comments
UPDATE 10/01/11 at 3:05 p.m. Central: With my book, Three Days In August, scheduled for release Oct. 19, I’ve removed posts containing content found in the book and ask readers to visit the book’s website to learn more about it. Thanks! FYI: If you enjoy this blog and want to help keep reading stories like [...]
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Democrats and Labor Bosses Said, ‘It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government’
February 24th, 2011 · 1 Comment
By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Republican governors Scott Walker, Chris Christie, John Kasich, and Mitch Daniels are not the originators of the fear of the overreaching power of public employee unions. That credit goes to FDR and the president of the AFL-CIO, George Meany. In 1955, Meany said, “It is impossible to bargain collectively [...]
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Obama Front Group Recruiting Summer Organizers
February 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment
Courtesy of a friend of mine who is on the e-mail list for Organizing for America, I share below the latest electronic message he received Tuesday evening from the Barack Obama front group. Except for the caricature of the president that I added and the links I disabled, the message appears unedited below: (Salutation: name [...]
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Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley Has Bad Day (Update)
February 22nd, 2011 · 7 Comments
Today might go down in the history books as a bad day for new Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley, a Republican from Perryville, Mo. First, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran an article within which the term “race baiting” was used to describe a member of the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition who had written a [...]
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Doctors Notes Scandal Continues in Wisconsin
February 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment
The scandal involving medical doctors writing notes to excuse school teachers and other public employees union folks from work continues to evolve in Madison, Wisc. In this video, an unidentified school teacher — who, by the way, is skipping work to protest against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker‘s effort to get this state’s fiscal house in [...]
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‘I Pledge Not to Run From My Duties…’ (Update)
February 22nd, 2011 · 2 Comments
After watching the Wisconsin budget battle for more than a week and seeing reports that some of the scenes from Madison are likely to be replayed in other states, I’ve concluded that now might be the time for Americans to require politicians to sign a new kind of pledge before their names appear on any [...]
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