Bob McCarty Writes

Lisa Payne-Naeger summed up one of the problems related to Family Court justice in Missouri in the opening paragraph of her March 30 post, Best Interests of Children Take Backseat as Bill Advances Thru Missouri Senate “Sight Unseen”: Americans gasped when then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi uttered a few words about the health care [...]

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By Lisa Payne-Naeger, Guest Blogger Americans gasped when then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi uttered a few words about the health care reform legislation known as ObamaCare:  “We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.” One year later, members of the Missouri Senate seem to be following Pelosi’s lead when it [...]

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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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With the primary election for the Missouri U.S. Senate race barely a week away, I received news today that members of three influential Tea Party groups have NOT endorsed Roy Blunt! The groups members hail from Blunt’s “backyard” cities of Branson and Springfield as well as from St. Charles County. The first message, in the [...]

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Nearly 100 people turned out at the intersection of Highways K and N in O’Fallon, Mo., Saturday afternoon to mark the one-year anniversary of the K and N Patriots, an anti-socialism movement launched by local resident and grandmother Janet Allquist.  Joining them today were more than two-dozen members of the St. Louis Tea Party Movement [...]

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A rally Saturday afternoon will mark the one-year anniversary of an anti-socialism movement launched by Janet Allquist. Scheduled to begin at noon at the intersection of Highways K and N in the St. Louis suburb of O’Fallon, Mo., the rally is sponsored by the K-and-N Patriots, a nonprofit group that evolved out of Allquist’s vision [...]

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Twenty-two months ago, I published a post which included a photo (above) of a billboard touting Ameren UE’s “POWER ON” initiative.  I found it ironic that, as shown in the photo, so many power lines hung between me and the billboard.  At the same time, however, I assumed it just a matter of time before [...]

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