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Midwest Auto Workers Look To Obama For Change

Dan Treul | Posted 07.18.2008 | Home

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Dan Treul

"GM won't change anything until they have every operation overseas," says Danny. "This started back in the 1980s with Reagan... We know we're not going to get any help from McCain."

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Obamaniacs: Tearful Mother & Daughter Overwhelmed Meeting Obama

Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

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Obama has taken some heat for his patriotism speech in Independence, Missouri -- but not from local supporters, including a mother and daughter who we...

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Missouri Flood Waters

Melissa Hapke | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home

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"So far I'm safe where I'm at, but I may have to take a different route to work. My house is only three blocks from the Missouri River, but we live on a hill."

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The Disintegration of John McCain

Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

Even still-enamored journalists cannot fail to notice that it would be difficult to find a candidate less suited for the times or the office than McCain right now.

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Midwest Editors Shifting On Gay Marriage

Dan Treul | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home

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Dan Treul

In another signal, perhaps, that the country is ready for change, newspapers across the Midwest showed either even-handedness or excitement for an issue that only years ago was considered taboo.

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Obama: Wheels Down In Missouri And Fortunes Rising

Beverly Davis | Posted 06.09.2008 | Home

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Beverly Davis

Mike Roberts, the "Donald Trump of St. Louis," explains why Obama will win a landslide victory in Missouri, one of the top battle states for November. "He'll kill McCain!"

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Missourians: Take Action Now or Lose Voting Rights, Dem Victory

Art Levine | Posted 05.14.2008 | Home

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Art Levine

Missouri, the battleground state that has accurately picked the presidential winner in every election since the 1950s, now faces an unprecedented peril this week.

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Obama's first general election stop: Missouri, Limbaugh country

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

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Christina Bellantoni

Sen. Barack Obama won't be in West Virginia tomorrow on Election Day. With his sights set on the general election, he'll be in Missouri. Obama's pub...

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After Indiana ID Ruling: Missouri Rushes to Pass Worst Voting Law

Art Levine | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Missouri, Voter Disenfranchisement, Disenfranchized Voters, Voting Rights, Voting, Politics News
Art Levine

Protecting voters from fraud isn't the real goal of this measure -- it's just helping GOP officials hold on to political power by blocking Democratic-leaning voters.

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Elections Can't Really be Fair, Free and Accurate if Eligible Voters Can't Vote

Robin Carnahan | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Elections, Voter Suppression, Missouri, Voter ID, Voting Rights, Voting, Supreme Court, Politics News
Robin Carnahan

For those citizens who don't have a drivers license or other government-issued ID, but nevertheless are legitimate, registered voters, ID laws can be a great burden.

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Not Your Grandma's Cage Fighting

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 04.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Cage Fighting, Child Rights Activists, Child Abuse, New Legislation, Ban Cage Fighting, Children, Bullying, Missouri, Fight Clubs, Living News
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

One might assume that children would be prohibited from being thrown into a chain-link box and told to enact every school-yard bully's fantasy. You would be wrong. It is still legal in Missouri.

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Will Wal-Mart Do the Right Thing for Brain-Damaged Ex-Employee Debbie Shank's Family?

David Nassar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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David Nassar

Debbie Shank used to stock shelves at night for Wal-Mart so she could spend time in the afternoons with her three sons. Now she lives in a nursing home, requires around-the-clock medical care and owes Wal-Mart almost $500,000.

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The Day Hillary Clinton Knew She Had Lost

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

That she has been able to stay in the race at all is a testament to the power of the Clinton name, the Dem's ludicrous electoral system, and her hold over a petrified media and the party's bureaucratic elite.

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Missouri's Humane and Sensible Approach to Juvenile Justice

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Juvenile Crime, Crime, Children, Child Watch, Marian Wright Edelman, Juvenile Justice, At-Risk Youth, Missouri, Juvenile Dentention, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

We should stop spending a fortune on traditional, non-therapeutic, correctional facilities and then releasing youth back into our communities with little done to address their rehabilitation and education needs.

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A Warning to Our Superdelegates

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

It is increasingly unseemly for superdelegates to stand by as the Clinton campaign resorts to techniques that would have made Jesse Helms blush 20 years ago.

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Clinton's General Election Disaster in the Making

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

Of the many strange spins the Clinton campaign has sold the media, few are as troubling as the idea that she is the stronger general election candidate.

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Clinton Spinning Into Twilight Zone

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

The Clinton operation's dismissive attitude towards the states that she loses feels uncomfortably like a post-facto snub by the aggrieved party in a break up: "he's not really my type anyway."

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Sam Stein

AP And Clinton Jump Gun On Missouri, Hour Before Obama Win

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics

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Both the Associated Press and then Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign jumped the gun on Super Tuesday, claiming a Clinton victory in Missour...

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My Super Duper Tsunami Tuesday Primary Picks

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Between Obama and Clinton, it's going to be a virtual tie. Both campaigns will immediately release spin on why they are now the frontrunner, and why the other should politely drop out of the race.

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Missouri Trends Toward Obama

Beverly Davis | Posted 02.04.2008 | Home

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Beverly Davis

Missouri has 88 Democratic delegates up for grabs on Super Tuesday and if the tracking polls and the opinions of several state consultants and politic...

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Sam Stein

Key Newspapers Weigh In On Obama v. Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.19.2008 | Politics

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Even on the morning of Nevada's important caucus, the campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were looking ahead, trumpeting influential newspap...

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Church And State Revisited: The Story Of Smoot

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Much ink was spilled over Mitt Romney's speech last week about his Mormon faith. Very little attention was paid to America's dark history of anti-Mormonism.

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Death Chamber of Secrets

Christopher Hill | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics

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Christopher Hill

As part of the secrecy surrounding the execution process, we do not really know who the people carrying out lethal injections are.

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Missouri: The Triangulation Of Senator Claire McCaskill

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 10.12.2007 | Home

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Jeanine Molloff

Since her election, the Senator has firmly aligned herself with DLC interests.

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