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MO legislature creates a new poverty crime

September 20, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Crime/Violence, Health, Missouri region One comment

It’s now a law in Missouri that, if you’re on Medicaid, and you miss your doctor’s appointment without notifying the doctor 24 hours in

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NBC allowed Zika Virus to become political

September 19, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Health care, Media Leave a comment

On the same day as the NBC commander-in-chief forum, Lester Holt (who will host the first presidential debate on Monday, Sept. 26) reported on

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Diaper Banks: How Congressional disdain for poor people makes them necessary

September 19, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Charity & Justice, Children, Health Leave a comment

I’m sad to report that it’s Diaper Need Awareness Week here in St. Louis, and across the country–a program promoted by the National Diaper

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Don’t peace activists have a say in who will be our next commander-in-chief?

September 19, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Military One comment

A lot of Democrats also thought that it was just fine when Matt Lauer and NBC hosted their September 7 Commander-in-Chief Forum and decided

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Please stop calling the 2016 election unprecedented: It’s what Trump supporters want to hear

September 18, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Campaigns, Media Leave a comment

I’ve been thinking about that word—unprecedented. It’s become a buzzword in the 2016 election. Reporters and newsreaders generally frequently use it, but it is

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Kander tries to outgun Blunt

September 18, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Guns, Missouri region, Politics, Violence Leave a comment

  There were rave reviews from a number of Democrats about Missouri Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate Jason Kander’s new ad featuring him

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Debate moderators can learn from pastor in Flint about shutting down Trump

September 15, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Democracy, Hillary Clinton Leave a comment

Do you remember back in 2012 when debate moderator Candy Crowley interrupted Mitt Romney for having his facts mixed up? There was a big

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Who benefits from NRA’s push for MO guns-everywhere law?

September 14, 2016 Willy Kessler Guns, Missouri region Leave a comment

The National Rifle Association will make the override of Senate Bill 656 their top priority in the country this week as the omnibus gun

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“Follies” in the era of Hillary Clinton

September 12, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Literature/Arts/Film Leave a comment

Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies,” first produced on Broadway in 1971, and not seen much since, still has relevance–especially in the era of HIllary Clinton’s run

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The left has no answer for Syria

September 12, 2016 Adam Levin Foreign Policy, Ideas, International, War 2 comments

This year’s catastrophe of an election cycle has led some on the Left to seek refuge with Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein, and

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