It seems a bit unusual to change campaign managers after running a successful primary, but that’s what Ninth District congressional candidate Blaine Luetkemeyer has done.

After winning the crowded Republican primary with Jerry Dowell at the helm, Luetkemeyer is turning to Kyle…

Got a tip last night in the newsroom from some young men from New York who apparently have been traveling the country putting up some legal (and maybe not-quite legal) murals. Here’s another blog chronicling their sojourn.

Yes, they are taggers. Graffiti…

Gov. Matt Blunt and state Rep. Steve Hobbs, R-Mexico, asserted this morning that there’s no doubt presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain will play better in rural Missouri than his Democratic rival, Barack Obama.

Even though farmers may disagree with McCain on…

Young Alderman Kacie Starr Triplett, who many at City Hall believe is becoming politically what her middle name already suggests, will participate in a discussion panel at next week’s Democratic Convention in Denver.

Triplett, 28, was an early Barack Obama supporter.

In March…

Renewable energy is so hot right now that Barack Obama met this week with oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens – who helped finance the “Swift Boat” campaign against the last Democratic nominee for president — to hear his ideas on wind.

Missouri,…

Gov. Matt Blunt and state Rep. Steve Hobbs, R-Mexico, will participate in a conference call Tuesday morning to promote GOP presumptive presidential nominee John McCain.

Blunt and Hobbs (a farmer and chairman of the House Committee of Conservation and Natural Resources) will…

Almost two weeks after the GOP primary for governor, victor Kenny Hulshof and loser Sarah Steelman met Monday morning in an undisclosed location in Jefferson City.

The private session was “very cordial,” said Hulshof spokesman Scott Baker. But he declined to comment…

U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow talked with my colleague Jo Mannies at a rally downtown today.

Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat, was at the event with displaced or soon-to-be-displaced autoworkers, all of whom contended that the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee, Barack Obama, best understood…

Now that the general election candidates for governor have begun jawing at each other, it looks like the honeymoon is over for the down ticket races, too.

State Rep. Clint Zweifel, winner of a crowded Democratic primary for treasurer, today…