Before dawn on a wickedly cold and rainy Thursday morning, fast food workers in black hoodies and t-shirts gathered on a parking lot on
Tag: Missouri
Dems: Stop being “disappointed” and defensive
This is Missouri Governor Jay Nixon’s response to Republican state legislators who tried to trap him into a public embarrassment regarding Medicaid expansion. …That
MO hurries up death sentences before death drugs die: Insane
The very existence of the death penalty in American law is troublesome, to say the least. But, to make matters worse, the 32 U.S.
Missouri’s hypocritical war on poor people
If you qualify for TANF [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families] in Missouri, don’t try to use your benefits card at an ATM near a
Are we all eco-terrorists now?
I wasn’t much interested in all of the hullabaloo about the government spying on our phone calls, emails, etc., until I read this article
Get re-elected. Resign immediately. Go to work for a lobbying group. Repeat.
Political manipulation and cynicism hit a new low in December 2012, when, just 30 days after being re-elected, Jo Ann Emerson, the ten-term Congressperson
Why “The Impossible” makes me think about healthcare
I went to see the movie The Impossible the other day and have since been thinking about how it relates to our situation here
Reforming campaign finance in Missouri
A friend of mine lobbied for campaign finance reform in Missouri for more than a dozen years. He finally gave up in 2000, when
A rural-Missouri progressive reflects on 2012 voters & victories
Like you, I’m still digesting the 2012 election results and trying to make sense of what happened. I worked at a polling station out
GOTV for Claire McCaskill: Scenes from the [strangely numbered] streets of suburbia
I’m knocking on doors for Claire McCaskill’s GOTV effort, in suburban St. Louis [an impressively well-organized and energetic effort, I must say], and here