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Author: Willy Kessler

Willy Kessler is a retired librarian who a few years ago relocated to St. Louis. She is alternately delighted and horrified by some of the more gothic aspects of Missouri politics as well as fortified by the persistence of progressives in a reddening state.

Missouri’s proposed sales tax hike: A question of fairness and progressive identity

June 16, 2014 Willy Kessler 2014 Election, Infrastructure, Missouri region, States, Taxes Leave a comment

[by Willy Kessler] So, on the heels of a tax cut for the wealthy that insults every middle and working class person in the

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For Pope Francis, the road to church modernization runs through Missouri

March 13, 2014 Willy Kessler Missouri region, Religion in Politics Leave a comment

Pope Francis seems to be taking on many of the more moribund aspects of the culture of the Catholic Church – a task that

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Dear Congresswoman Wagner: Disinformation about Obamacare can’t hide the facts

February 13, 2014 Willy Kessler ACA/Obamacare, Consumer issues, Employment, Health care, Missouri region, Politics, Republicans One comment

Rep. Ann Wagner’s (R-MO) hopping mad — or, more likely, hopping around — trying to get off the liar’s hot seat (remember the refrain “liar,

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The old GOP folks at home: Light-bulb wars

January 22, 2014 Willy Kessler Congress, Consumer issues, Energy, Politics, Republicans, Technology Leave a comment

After Mitt Romney’s humiliating defeat in 2012, many pundits explicitly or implicitly agreed with bloger Ted Frier who wrote that the GOP had deteriorated

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Boeing’s corporate-extortion scheme, Missouri edition

December 11, 2013 Willy Kessler Business, Corporations, Economy, Government, Missouri region, Politics, States, Taxes Leave a comment

In an earlier post on the way that Missouri politicos are tripping over themselves to try to lure Boeing away from Washington, I noted that

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