Gov. Matt Blunt and his Democratic nemesis, Attorney General Jay Nixon, made their public appeals tonight about the state of the state.

Blunt says times are good. Nixon says they’re not.

For those who missed one or both addresses, here’s your chance…

Tonight, the focus of Missouri politics is in Jefferson City, where Gov. Matt Blunt will deliver his fourth - and, Democrats hope, his last - State of the State address.

Will it be filled with surprises - or littered with proposals…

This just in from the Associated Press:

 A lawsuit by state Rep. Margaret Donnelly, D-Richmond Heights, ”reveals that 28 candidates are seeking exceptions from refunding money received in excess of Missouri’s campaign contribution limits.
 
“A Cole County judge says he…

State Rep. Margaret Donnelly, D-Richmond Heights, was the first statewide candidate today to announce that her campaign finance report — among hundreds due today — is in.

She’s among three Democrats who are declared candidates for Missouri attorney general.

 Donnelly’s…

Perhaps feeling more confident about their candidate’s presidential chances, Missouri supporters of U.S. Hillary Rodham Clinton , D-N.Y., are holding “watch parties” Tuesday night in St. Louis and Kansas City, to monitor Tuesday’s televised Democratic candidate debate in Nevada.

 St. Louis’…

Americans for Prosperity – a fiscally conservative, pro-business, low-tax group — has begun airing ads in Missouri that take aim at school districts that have participated in the law suit seeking changes in the state’s school-aid formula.

The ad began airing late…

Former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., may be looking to Missouri as among the Feb. 5 primary states that could keep him in the presidential-nomination game.

His campaign confirms that Edwards is to be in St. Louis on Saturday morning,…

State Rep. Margaret Donnelly, D-Richmond Heights and a candidate for Missouri attorney general, will be back in court Tuesday in her fight to force the Missouri Ethics Commission to open the hardship hearings to the public.

According to her release,…

Mike Ferguson, a Missouri Libertarian who regularly has posted interviews with various state political figures on his Web site, is reminding people that the state Libertarian Party:

A) Still has automatic ballot access, and will have a presidential ballot on…

“The Missourian,” a mystery figure who’s obviously a Democrat, just posted a new YouTube video that marks the new legislative session by jabbing at the Republican legislative leaders (with muted tweaks at their Democratic counterparts) and Gov. Matt Blunt.

It’s…