ST. LOUIS — They don’t allow laptops in federal court rooms, but there is no prohibition against Twitter.

State Rep. T.D. El-Amin will appear in court today, the third St. Louis area Democrat in the last month to face corruption charges in…

Slay with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey

ST. LOUIS — When Mayor Francis Slay welcomed Twitter founder and St. Louis native Jack Dorsey to his office today, the mayor — who’s been logged onto the cyber craze for almost exactly a year — mentioned that…

Michael Steele

WASHINGTON — It may not have been the apology that Rep. Roy Blunt’s allies were seeking, but it was something.

Elsewhere on Political Fix, colleague Jake Wagman relates the ensuing ruckus after Republican National Chairman Michael Steele passed up the opportunity last week…

McCaskill

When Claire McCaskill lost the 2004 election to Republican Matt Blunt, her dreams of being the state’s first woman governor were wiped away– and so too, she thought, was her political career.

After the race, McCaskill told business school graduates at Missouri State…

JEFFERSON CITY — As the Legislature has been ramping up in the final month, so has the Jefferson City tweeting.

Claire McCaskill

WASHINGTON — There is a reason Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., is known as a twitter-queen of Congress.

Since joining the micro-blogging website, McCaskill has been named second only to Karl Rove as most influential Washington tweeter by Politico. She has more…

JEFFERSON CITY — St. Louis-based lobbyist Travis Brown is using the social networking software Twitter to help track over-sized campaign contributions.

Brown, who Tweets at www.twitter.com/pelopidas, today kicked off a feature that ought to make The Turner Report quite happy: Brown will be…

If you’re getting annoyed with all the talk of Twitter, move along to the next post.

But in Jake Wagman’s last post about Twitter, a commenter asked which legislators have Twitter accounts. Below is a list, although probably not comprehensive, of the Missouri public officials I…

State Sen. Brad Lager boasting that his district is larger than Rhode Island, St. Louis Democrat Rachel Storch having trouble getting extra money for meals-on-wheels and prosecutors lobbying to pack heat in the courthouse — these are just a few of the tidbits…

Bryan Pratt

JEFFERSON CITY — The House of Representatives today passed Speaker Pro Tem Bryan Pratt’s bill criminalizing what it calls abortion coercion.

The debate, which once again got a bit personal, lasted about an hour.

“Please join me to reduce the number…