Nixon walks with Brig. Gen. Gerald Lang at a base in Iraq

Gov. Jay Nixon and his Illinois counterpart joined three other governors who spent the weekend visiting military commanders and troops in Iraq and Kuwait.

Nixon announced his whereabouts in an unusual…

A lucrative no-bid contract awarded to John Ashcroft by a former colleague in the U.S. Justice Department has become opposition fodder in the New Jersey governor’s race.

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat feeling the heat…

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Roy Blunt continues to unite disparate factions of the state’s Republican Party.

Over the weekend, the candidate for U.S. Senate announced the support of former U.S. Sen. Jim Talent and current Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, the only GOP statewide official in Jefferson City.

Today,…

A bust of Kit Bond is unveiled in Mexico, Mo.

U.S. Sen. Kit Bond may be retiring at the end of his term, but he’ll preside forever — in bronze — in his hometown.

The city of Mexico, Mo., where Bond has deep…

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Former governor, senator and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft compared his decisions in the Bush administration after 9/11 to those of President Harry S Truman in a commencement speech this weekend.

Fittingly, the speech was made to graduates on Saturday at Truman…

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Matt Blunt has a new line for his post-Jefferson City résumé — teaming up with another former Republican governor of Missouri.

Blunt, who left the governor’s office in January, is joining the Ashcroft Group, formed by former governor, senator and U.S. Attorney…

Carnahan, left, and Ashcroft

Over at The Grade blog, higher ed scribe Kavita Kumar has the scoop that former governor, senator and U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft will be this year’s commencement speaker at Truman State University.

The school will bestow an honorary…

John Ashcroft at the state Capitol with Betty Hearnes

Though the crowd itself wasn’t particularly large at today’s inaugural, the stage was packed with political luminaries from both sides of the aisle.

Among them: Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, who served…

DENVER — U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan remembers 28 years when he and several fellow 20-something friends drove to New York to catch some of the doings surrounding the 1980 Democratic presidential convention.

“We went as party crashers,” the congressman recalled with a…

In a race to represent staunch West County GOP territory, State Senate hopeful Gina Loudon has scored a victory with the support of one of the state’s largest anti-abortion groups.

Missouri Right to Life is endorsing Loudon in her competitive three-way…