Pat Quinn: Hey, he picked a tie! (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Gov. Pat Quinn and the Illinois legislature last week met expectations by agreeing on a $26 billion budget for the fiscal year that started July 1 — the agreement is every…
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon did something a little weird last Thursday: He vetoed $33,000 from the Department of Transportation’s budget to punish MoDOT for commissioning a poll on Missourians’ attitudes about the Legislature’s decision to lift the state law requiring…
Among the winners.
With the Missouri Legislature, you have take adequacy when it happens, even when the news is not as good as it should have been.
So let’s hear one hand clapping for the legislators who managed to set ideology aside…
One possible result of tax-cut plan.
Buried deep in Missouri House Bill 20, one of 22 appropriations bills that outline how state money will be spent next year, is a $1.6 million appropriation for the care of foster kids in the custody…
Chicks dig noodling.
Missouri’s least appreciated oppressed minority, the intrepid “noodlers” who prefer to catch humongous catfish by hand instead by hook or trotline, this week moved a step closer to equality with their tamer (or saner) brethren.
The Missouri House Agribusiness…
Horns of a dilemma: Repealing helmet laws could endanger the creative work of men like Arlen Strehlow of Milwaukee, shown at the 2003 Sturgis, S.D., motorcycle rally. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
The Missouri Senate last week decided that motorcyclists who are…
On the other hand, there were financial vices. And if somebody in City Hall saw a chance to make a fast bundle or two, Daley wasn’t given to preaching. His advice amounted to: Don’t get caught.
— Mike Royko, about Chicago…
Our friends at the Springfield News-Leader report that outgoing House Speaker Rod Jetton is shopping for a frame to display our May 18 editorial, “The sad legacy of the Jetton era.”
“I thought it was great,” the paper’s Jefferson City reporter,…
Sixty-eight million years ago, Tyrannosaurus rex ruled the roost. It was the largest and most fearsome predator ever to thunder across the ancient Earth. Even today in the safety of a museum, coming face-to-kneecap with T. rex inspires awe —…
