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01.30.2009 9:01 pm

Remember Blago by cleaning up campaign cash

Time to downsize campaign cash.

Time to downsize campaign cash.

Wafting over the impeachment and removal from office last week of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was the faint odor of hypocrisy. With his brazen and profane greed, the now-former governor may have exposed Illinois’ culture of…

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01.29.2009 10:58 am

Instant editorial: MoHELA and better walnuts

No buildings, fewer loans, but lots of walnuts.

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…

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01.08.2009 11:40 am

Putting public health first at the health department

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.…

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11.17.2008 9:01 pm

Democracy under assault by Missouri governor’s office

Boxes of documents from the governor's office are wheeled into the Post-Dispatch.

Boxes of documents are wheeled into the Post-Dispatch

In 1993, former Attorney General William Webster pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally using state workers and state computers in a political campaign. He was disbarred and served nearly 21 months in…

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11.13.2008 9:01 pm

Restoring balance to Missouri’s Public Service Commission

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Missouri’s Public Service Commission is supposed to be an honest broker, fairly assessing the often conflicting interests of large utility companies and their customers.
That’s not how things have worked over the last few years. Instead, the playing field has tilted…

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