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08.27.2009 12:23 pm

READ THE BILL! READ THE BILL!

Sen. Claine McCaskill at a town hall meeting at Jefferson College.

Sen. Claine McCaskill at a town hall meeting at Jefferson College.

Our friend Michael Sewall from the Columbia Missourian reported on a town hall-style meeting held this week by Sen. Claire McCaskill in Jefferson City. You can find his full story here.

Ms.…

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08.12.2009 9:01 pm

Defending an indefensible health system

Thousands of angry protesters turned out at town hall meetings in Hillsboro, Cape Girardeau and across the country this week. They had come to pledge their unstinting support for the world’s 37th best-performing health care system.
The protesters vowed to protect a…

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08.07.2009 9:03 pm

Street theater

Dawn Majors/Post-Dispatch

Dawn Majors/Post-Dispatch

Several hundred citizens, virtually all of them of mid- to late-middle age, showed up at Bernard Middle School in Mehlville Thursday evening. Judging by their behavior, their object was to display their scorn and shout down U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan,…

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08.07.2009 2:49 am

No poison control at Carnahan health care forum

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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One of our favorite family stories arose out of an incident that occurred more than 10 years ago when my wife had been given a terrible time by a customer service representative at a local hospital.…

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08.06.2009 11:47 am

Town hall invocation

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

There have been a number of organized, disruptive demonstrations at town hall meetings being held by members of Congress on the topic of health care.

U.S. Rep. Todd Akin got a lot of laughs earlier this week when he told a seemingly…

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