In the past few months, Gov. Matt Blunt and his office have come under increasing fire for their policy on saving e-mails that go through the office as a part of handling government business. The issue has led to the appointment of an investigative team.
According to our story on STLtoday right now, “Attorney General Jay Nixon appointed the independent team last November to investigate accusations that Blunt’s staff has destroyed e-mails that should be preserved under state laws mandating open records and record preservation.”
The story starts with:

Gov. Matt Blunt’s private lawyer has told a investigative team that it…

Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt says he will not seek re-election for a second term. According to the story we’ve prepared for STLtoday:

Blunt released a TV address “announcing that having achieved virtually everything he set out to ahe set out to accomplish when he ran for governor he will not seek a second term.”

Will you be sorry to see Blunt go when his term expires? Or are you pleased to know he won’t be back? Is this the end for Blunt’s political career or is he destined for bigger things? And if that’s what you think, where do you think he’s…

As the Rev. Scott Weldon of Marshfield, Mo., said in his blog back in September, “Rarely do we find, in this day and age, a political candidate who claims to be a Christian, and by all appearances actually backs it up with his life!”

As pointed out in a story for Friday’s Post-Dispatch, Huckabee vs. Romney is a matter of faith for some, Rev. Weldon has been way out in front of Mike Huckabee’s surge that pushed the former Arkansas governor past Mitt Romney in the Iowa polls last weekend.

While some conservative evangelical Christians fret about Huckabee’s electability, support…

More news out of Jefferson City related to the fight against illegal immigration. This from an Associated Press story today:

Gov. Matt Blunt announced another piece to his crackdown on illegal immigration Monday: a legislative proposal that would bar Missouri from issuing driver’s licenses to people who are in the state illegally.

Meanwhile, here’s an updated story by the Post-Dispatch.

This measure is a companion to Blunt’s earlier call to state law enforcement officers, who he wants to check the immigration status of every person presented for incarceration. Blunt said Monday that officers so far have turned 110 illegal immigrants over to…

Here’s the description of a story running today on STLtoday and in Thursday’s Post-Dispatch:

When Gov. Matt Blunt ordered officers to check residency of “criminals” who are arrested, he said his goal was to prevent illegal immigrants from bonding out of jail and committing more crimes. But most of the immigrants caught in Blunt’s net weren’t hardened criminals. They were nabbed for offenses such as speeding and failing to use a turn signal.

He announced the program in a news release from his office on Aug. 27. Read the release here. In part, it says:

Blunt highlighted a tragic murder in Newark…