Missouri

[Freed Roger]

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt ... c9070.html

Missouri gets a D Minus in National Ethics report. Which is worse than the flat D that Illinois received.

Illinois!

Save for the slight hedge of our weak democrat governor - the GOP controls MO. Once GOP gets the state executive branch, it'll only get worse.

People freak over presidential politics, but I've contended many times here, that the state effects you more directly. Statistically -( # voters in elections where there isn't presidential candidates on the ballot) people care far less about state politics than the Federal. It is so much easier to buy the states (often with outstate money).

[jim]

I wonder what this was all about - me starting this. I have no recollection of this. I like Missouri.

[Freed Roger]

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/pol ... 1d2be.html

MO graft.

University of Missouri hires a member of the Blunt family syndicate for $10K per month to lobby the state legislature.

[cardsfansince82]

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/pol ... 1d2be.html

MO graft.

University of Missouri hires a member of the Blunt family syndicate for $10K per month to lobby the state legislature.

If we all just worked harder we could get jobs like that, too.

[redbirdjazzz]

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/pol ... 1d2be.html

MO graft.

University of Missouri hires a member of the Blunt family syndicate for $10K per month to lobby the state legislature.

If we all just worked harder we could get jobs like that, too.

Well, the entire family seems to be totally lacking in anything resembling either ethics or morals, so he should be good at lobbying. As long as he doesn't have any say in what he lobbies for, I think it could end up being good for the University. I would, of course, prefer if his entire family were banished far, far away from Missouri, and preferably, the country.

[Freed Roger]

Missouri might as well merge with Mississippi or Kansas

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt ... d59dc.html

JEFFERSON CITY • Top Republicans are pitching a plan to fix Missouri roads and bridges with money being saved by cuts to welfare programs.

[Freed Roger]

Golf Carts and ATVs on the Katy Trail?

at first I thought another proposal by nut job GOPer with too much time on his/her hands - no more gun restrictions or child welfare etc to smack down....
but sounds like it has some support:

During last week’s hearing on his Katy Trail idea, however, Houghton’s plan received positive reviews from his colleagues.

I personally feel we’ve bent over backwards building bike lanes,” added state Rep Randy Pietzman, R-Troy.

State Rep. Robert Ross, R-Yukon, called it “absurd” that seniors can’t buzz down the trail on ATVs once in a while.

Rare observation from the comment section that I agree with - a good chunk of bike riders on the Katy Trail now are seniors.


Oh yeah, same guy that proposed the above, also proposes a mandate 15 foot pole with a flag be attached to bikes. Apparently this guy thinks all bikers are liberals....and. they. must. BE. STOPPED.

He also is shepherding a bill through the Legislature this year that would require bicyclists to attach an orange flag to their bikes if they want to ride on county roads. He said the fluorescent flag, mounted on a 15-foot-long pole, would make bikers more visible to motorists.

[tlombard]

15 feet tall? How would that make them more visible? I can just imagine a driver plowing over a biker while they stare up through the top of the windshield trying to figure out just what that orange flag is for.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

ATVs on a pedestrian trail is an absurd idea. If they want to ride a motorized vehicle, there are plenty of roads. People are so stupid.

[Cheddar Tom]

I took a trip down near the Bootheel for the first time this weekend....didn't realize Hwy. 67 was a 2-lane highway. Easy access to get down there, but what a dump Southeast Missouri is. Shanty after shanty right along the highway. Burned out, deteriorating buildings that look like they haven't been occupied for decades. Mobile homes clustered in pockets that have massive amounts of junk on the property. That area is an embarrassment.