Bob McCarty Writes

On several occasions during my lifetime, I’ve found myself thinking maybe there should be a law against political campaign consultants and other “handlers” telling their candidates what to do.  Why?  Because, sometimes, they give bad advice.  One of those occasions happened early on a Friday afternoon almost two weeks ago following a speaking engagement I [...]

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Eleven days after publishing an exclusive story about Missouri health agency officials refusing to answer questions or inform St. Charles County (Mo.) residents about a new Weldon Spring cancer report, it appears that story is beginning to attract attention from St. Louis-area news media outlets. Yesterday, I received an email from Blythe Bernhard, medical reporter [...]

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Though the primary races are heating up among Republicans, the results of a Public Policy Polling poll released today prove money doesn’t always result in support — especially among those battling for the chance to face incumbent Democrat Gov. Jay Nixon in November. Most surprising in the GOP gubernatorial primary — and the focus of the [...]

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Around 9:30 a.m. Central, I posted the following paragraph as a status update on my blog’s Facebook page: The Facebook account belonging to Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder (R), the guy who’s political stature shrunk somewhat after news of his strip club attendance got out, appears to have been hacked this morning (or maybe not). [...]

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I’ll be making a guest appearance Friday afternoon on The Dana Show on FM NewsTalk 97.1. During the show’s last half hour, starting around 3:30 p.m. Central, host Dana Loesch and I will discuss an exclusive article I published Monday about a new Weldon Spring Cancer Report I obtained from the Missouri Department of Health [...]

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On March 11, 2011, a major earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a tsunami that, in addition to killing more than 15,000 people, contributed to the disaster at the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant — the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.  After watching the Fukushima disaster unfold for three weeks, I began [...]

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In response to pressure from two freedom-loving attorneys representing them, charges against two petition circulators who were cited last weekend for gathering signatures on the public sidewalks of St. Charles, Mo., will be dropped, according to an announcement this morning by the city’s attorney, Mike Valenti. What kind of petition were the two unnamed individuals [...]

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