November 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I’m not a smoker, but I might have an answer to the mystery of why, according to a just-released report (pdf) from a coalition of public health organizations, Missouri ranks 49th in the nation in funding programs to protect kids from tobacco.
First, some background from a news release about the report:
Missouri currently spends $2.7 million [...]
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Yesterday, Barack Obama’s plan to bankrupt the coal industry appeared as one of the Ten Reasons NOT to Elect Barack Obama in 2008. A day later, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) appeared on Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends morning program to run interference for the Democratic Party presidential nominee.
What Senator McCaskill didn’t mention — and, [...]
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A crowd estimated at 17,000 welcomed John McCain and Sarah Palin to Missouri.
An estimated 17,000 supporters turned out this afternoon at T.R. Hughes Ballpark, home of the River City Rascals minor league baseball team in O’Fallon, Mo., to welcome Republican presidential nominee-to-be John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, to the Show-Me State. The [...]
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If the non-liberal, non-Democrat accounts I’ve read about Sarah Palin today are accurate, the Alaska governor appears to be a no-holds-barred anti-corruption Republican who doesn’t mince words and is not afraid to take on a challenge. That in mind, I wish we had more politicians like her in Missouri to take care of government excess like [...]
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Two days after learning Michael E. Carter had lost his Democratic Party primary bid for Missouri’s lieutenant governor position, I thoroughly enjoyed writing the headline, Missouri Robo-Call Candidate Loses in Landslide. Today, however, my post-primary bliss turned to disappointment upon learning the “robo-call candidate” has reinvented himself and pulled “a Lieberman.”
Remember Lieberman? Sen. Joe Lieberman [...]
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