In Poplar Bluff, Slay finds church founded by his uncle

Mayor Francis Slay hit the road this week to lobby southeast Missouri legislators on bringing control of the St. Louis police department back to City Hall.

Along the way, Slay took in a…

If you missed the health care debate between on Wednesday between Howard Dean and Newt Gingrich in Cape Girardeau, you can still watch part of it online — but you’ll have to rely on your imagination for sound.

Per…

Ed Martin

WASHINGTON — Predictions of a big anti-incumbent election in 2010 might or might not be valid given the many advantages sitting members of Congress hold at re-election time.

But the anti-government sentiments afoot in recent months are providing a bounty…

Rice

St. Louis officials have sparred for years with the Rev. Larry Rice, whose New Life Evangelistic Center downtown caters to the city’s homeless population.

Though Rice brings a preacher’s zeal to helping the homeless, City Hall and other social service agencies…

Judge Limbaugh

If you’re the only Republican on stage at inauguration day, why not make a statement.

Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, the lone member of the GOP to win statewide office in November, will have U.S. District Court Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. swearing…

Limbaugh

Cape Girardeau native and conservative icon Rush Limbaugh loves Barack Obama’s selection of Hillary Clinton, but not necessarily because he’s a fan of either Democrat’s policies.

For Obama to appoint his former rival to a key post in his administration, Limbaugh says, is a…

Warming up the crowd at Sarah Palin’s rally in Cape Girardeau on Thursday, Republican U.S. Sen. Kit Bond was criticizing Democrat Barack Obama for supporting judges that would empathize with, among others, homosexuals — “the gay,” as…

Obama in Florida, Palin in Cape Girardeau and Biden in Arnold

Barack Obama will headline a 9:30 rally tonight on the Mizzou campus, making him the third member of the major party tickets to speak in Missouri today.

Some states don’t get that…

I just returned from Cape Girardeau, where I watched Sarah Palin give a speech to thousands of supporters. I talked to some of them after her talk to get their thoughts on the candidate and the upcoming election.

Here’s one of…

For more video from the Sarah Palin rally in Cape Girardeau, go to youtube.com/stlpostdispatch.