Bob McCarty Writes

Get ready! On Monday, I’ll publish an eye-opening piece about low-income housing rehabilitation efforts in St. Louis and reveal how as much as $381,750 is being spent to fix up homes that, upon completion, will be valued at approximately $110,000. My interest in the issue stems from the publication Friday of an article in the [...]

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Though natural gas pipeline explosions like the one that leveled a neighborhood and left several people dead in San Bruno, Calif., Sept. 9 are rare, having petroleum product and natural gas pipelines running through her yard still makes Shelley Miller of St. Peters, Mo., nervous and scared. “I started shaking from the inside out,” said [...]

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File this under, “Everything Changes After the Primary Ends.” St. Louis television station Fox2News caught me on video at the Midwest Region 9-12 Rally Sunday afternoon at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. The cameraman caught me during the moment I was having a handshake conversation with Missouri Republican U.S. Senate Nominee Roy Blunt. I [...]

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Interviewed Sunday afternoon at the Midwest Region 9-12 Rally at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Republican Congressional Nominee Ed Martin told me his opponent, incumbent Democrat Russ “Rubber Stamp” Carnahan, has agreed to a pseudo debate Friday morning on The Charlie Brennan Show on St. Louis’ KMOX-AM 1120. Unfortunately, according to Martin, he and [...]

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I’ve written 41 posts about or related to the K and N Patriots, a group that’s been staging weekly anti-socialism rallies in O’Fallon, Mo., and neighboring areas for more than 15 months.  Today, I share news that two of the group’s key players, Janet Allquist and Sandy Garber, were recognized in front of a crowd [...]

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An estimated 14,000 people from across the country rallied in St. Louis Sunday afternoon for the Midwest Region 9-12 Rally under the Gateway Arch.  For those of you who missed it, the video below captures the flavor of the rally. The list of speakers was long and included, but was not limited to, the following:  [...]

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It didn’t take long to decide what I would publish as my first video from the Midwest Regional 9-12 Rally at the Gateway Arch held in St. Louis this afternoon — The Sounding Fathers. Behind frontman Chris Loesch, the group did such a fabulous job of entertaining the estimated 14,000 Tea Party activists in attendance [...]

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