With a bird’s eye view of the encroaching Mississippi, Attorney General and Democratic candidate for governor Jay Nixon addressed the city’s business crowd this afternoon.

The speech, hosted by the Regional Chamber and Growth Association, was held at the Noonday Club,…

Here’s a rough cut of Sen. John McCain’s speech from Springfield. The Town Hall lasted about two hours, so this is a quick take of McCain’s energy proposals that he has been pushing around the nation.

Atop Sen. John McCain’s energy wish list: new offshore exploration for oil. McCain reiterated today in Springfield his belief that states should be free to write their own laws on the matter.

He believes that many would jump at the…

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A response from McCain’s campaign: “While hardworking families are hurting and employers are vulnerable, Barack Obama has promised higher income taxes, Social Security taxes, capital gains taxes, dividend taxes and tax hikes on job-creating businesses. Barack Obama doesn’t understand…

With Sen. Barack Obama campaigning as though he’s the Democratic nominee, I sought out some analysis from the folks he’ll need come November: voters in rural Missouri.

Yesterday, I spoke with Brenda Woemmel, the chair of Cape Girardeau County’s Democratic central…

The Democratic Party’s push to re-gain the White House is slowly but surely drifting from the nomination process to the November election.

But are the unions already there?

The Missouri AFL-CIO, along with the state’s bricklayers’ union, announced today that…

I was down in Cape G along with Political Fix Czarina Jo Mannies this afternoon for the visit by Sen. Barack Obama. Obama spent about an hour talking to workers at a clothing factory about his economic plans.

The speech itself reiterated a lot…

The president is somewhere between Lambert International and the factory here. In the meantime, everyone here has been chatting a bit and listening to some music pumped over the stereo.

The play list seems a bit ecletic, ranging from some…

Here’s a little more prep reading for anyone paying attention.

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I’m planning to blog as quickly as possible once the president arrives. But my internet connection and this toy PC are a little squeamish, so cut me some…

President Bush plans to address the economy and in particular defend the economic stimulus package. World Wide Technology has been on the receiving end of parts of that plan that Congress passed and he signed recently.

His visit is also…