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10.30.2009 9:01 pm

The way it is: Budget cuts move Missouri south.

R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch

R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch

Last week, Gov. Jay Nixon whacked another $203.7 million from the state’s budget. He’d already cut $385 million in July, and vetoed another $105 million when he signed the $23 billion budget in June.

The governor really had no choice.…

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07.10.2009 9:00 pm

Lack of stimulation

AP Photo/Jim Prisching

AP Photo/Jim Prisching

When Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to stimulate the economy in 1933, the first thing he did was create the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Within 37 days of FDR’s inauguration, he had proposed and Congress had enacted the CCC. On the 38th…

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