For a guy who focused so relentlessly on health care as a candidate, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has been remarkably quiet of late.
At a time when health care dominates the national debate, Mr. Nixon is one of just six Democratic…
Nursing homes shouldn’t be in the business of making high-interest loans to their workers. But in Missouri, more than 90 of them are. They routinely charge annual interest rates exceeding 300 percent. In one case, workers are charged a jaw-dropping…
Early voting in Madison County, Ill., in 2006 (David Carson/Post-Dispatch)
Thirty-five states of all political hues — red, blue and purple — are providing voters with some convenient alternative to the Election Day crush. Not so Missouri — or at least not…
The Post-Dispatch's R.J. Matson paid homage to Charles Addams in a Halloween, 2007, cartoon about the sliming of Scott Eckersley.
And so the great Matt Blunt-Ed Martin-Henry Herschel e-mail saga ends not with a bang, but with a whimper.
Two state-appointed investigators…
MOHELA: No buildings, fewer loans, but lots of walnuts.
Our colleague Kavita Kumar reports in today’s paper:
Gov. Jay Nixon’s administration sent letters to five universities this week alerting them that millions of dollars they had been counting on for campus construction projects…
Matt Blunt
At noon Monday, Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt will become former Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt, stepping out of politics at an age (38) at which many people are just beginning to think about getting in.
Who knows? Maybe he’ll be back.…
Gov.-elect Jay Nixon has named former state Rep. Margaret Donnelly to head the state Department of Health and Senior Services. We’re big fans of her work in the Legislature. We endorsed her in the Democratic primary for Attorney General.
But Ms.…
Scott Eckersley, left, and Gov. Matt Blunt
Since Missouri courts don’t have a shot clock, it’s becoming increasingly likely that Gov. Matt Blunt will leave office Jan. 12 without having to account for trashing the reputation of Scott Eckersley, his former…
Two of our favorites, soon-to-be ex-Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt and future President Lou Dobbs were on TV Wednesday evening talking about us…it doesn’t get much better than that.
The governor appeared on Lou’s show on CNN to ’splain Amendment 1 on the…
Since John McCain’s campaign manager says GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is being kept away from the press until reporters learn to treat her with “with some level of respect and deference,” I want to say I’m posting this…
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EFF CITY: TILE TOWN
People who want to buy a piece of state government ordinarily use a lobbyist. But for a limited time, they can get a chunk o’ Missouri on eBay, the online auction site.
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt and his…
With less than six months remaining in office, Gov. Matt Blunt and his administration are hard at work framing and burnishing their legacy.
They’ve been boasting about how well Mr. Blunt managed the state budget. In a press release issued last week, they…
On the evening of Nov. 2, 2004, when it became apparent that Republican Matt Blunt had defeated Democrat Claire McCaskill in the race for Missouri governor, Jeremiah W. “Jay” Nixon began laying claim to the Democratic nomination for governor in 2008.
He…
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt celebrated his leadership this week with a news release that claims that he has created “strong budgets, surpluses, while other states see red.”
The release adds: “Gov. Blunt’s strong, conservative fiscal management of Missouri’s budget turned an inherited $1.1…
Last Saturday, the day after Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt signed Senate Bill 1038, which repeals the limits on campaign contribution to state political candidates, we pulled up behind a car on Chippewa Street and noticed a bumper sticker that read: “We…
FiredUp Missouri is looking for Gov. Matt Blunt’s latest finance report to see whether he returned over-limit donations.
Meanwhile, Politico notes that the governor’s dad, U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, has handed the NRCC a half million clams for the fall campaigns.
Gubernatorial…
The U.S. Senate this week gave unanimous consent by voice vote to President George W. Bush’s appointment of Missouri Supreme Court Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. to the U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri.
Given that Senate Democrats and the Republican president have been…
While checking the Missouri Secretary of State’s Website for the final certified ballot for the Aug. 5 primary, we were shocked to learn that Chief Wana Dubie of Salem had been DQ’d from the Libertarian Party ballot for governor.
Thus the final link in…
In the general election of 2000, the full impact of the term limits Missouri voters had imposed on their state Legislature eight years earlier kicked in. Ninety of the 163 members of the Missouri House elected in 2000 were freshmen.…
Back before things got so polarized, it was said that American politics stops at the border. Democrats and Republicans might squabble at home, but they’d present a united front abroad.
Every now and then, there are signs that the good old…
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