Midterm elections are only a few weeks away so we’re watching the polls closer each day. I found that polls for the Senate races in Missouri, Arizona, North Dakota, and Tennessee have the Republican candidates in the lead.
Democrat incumbent Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill is only down a point, but Arizona Republican...
The latest Fox News polls show that Republicans have an opportunity to flip two Senate seats while holding onto another. However, Democrats have a chance to take over Arizona Republican Jeff Flake’s seat and Missouri Democrat incumbent Claire McCaskill captured a lead from her opponent.
Tread with caution, though, because all of...
A new election model from a conservative polling group has Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley ahead of incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill, 53 to 47 percent. From The Washington Free Beacon:
The model, created by WPA Intelligence and shared with the Washington Free Beacon, was based on predictive data available for each of...
Mizzou still has a way to go, but this is probably the best news they’ve had in years.
The Kansas City Star reports:
University of Missouri freshman enrollment jumps, but overall numbers are still down
As the fall semester started Monday, officials at the University of Missouri in Columbia were happy to see a...
Embattled Republican Missouri Governor Eric Greitens has resigned due to scandals over an affair and campaign finances. From the AP:
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has resigned amid criminal and legislative investigations stemming from an extramarital affair and campaign finance questions.
The 44-year-old Rhodes Scholar and ex-Navy SEAL made the announcement Tuesday. The resignation...
Earlier this year, Missouri Governor Eric Greitens received an indictment on felony invasion of privacy after the woman he had an affair with accused him of blackmailing her, including snapping partially nude pictures of her.
Now she admits that she doesn’t know for sure if he took pictures of her.
Today’s edition of “Government is Terrible and Property Rights Are Pretty Much a Joke These Days” comes to you from Missouri.
There, Janice and Carl Duffner challenged a city ordinance requiring them to maintain 50 percent turfgrass. All was fine and well until a busybody reported the Duffners to...
We all knew this would happen after failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton bashed those who did not vote her. She said that women who did not vote for her did so because a man told them not to.
Now, Hillary’s blame game is coming back to haunt incumbents like Sen. Claire...
I have to admit that I am weary of and even becoming a tiny bit bored by this sort of thing, but . . . here we go. Again. A white police officer shoots and kills a black suspect in the line of duty, is duly acquitted in a court of...
As Congress is scheduled to return from recess next week, President Donald Trump traveled to Missouri on Wednesday to encourage Congress to tackle tax reform and actually get the job done…unlike the ordeal with Obamacare. From Yahoo! News:
“I don’t want to be disappointed by Congress, do you understand me,” Trump said,...
The University of Missouri’s College of Education has promoted a support group for students, faculty, and staff to help them survive at the “predominately white institution.”
The flyer states that the group has previously “focused on racial identity develop, mindfulness, colorism, self-love, and experiences of holding two or three marginalized identities.”
The group...
Only hours before the execution, Missouri Governor Eric Greitans granted a stay of execution for Marcellus Williams due to new DNA evidence that may exonerate him. From CNN:
“A sentence of death is the ultimate, permanent punishment,” Greitens said in a statement. “To carry out the death penalty, the people of Missouri...
A Missouri state senator posted on Facebook that she hopes President Trump is assassinated. Her comment, since deleted, acknowledged that such a statement is likely to earn her scrutiny from the Secret Service. And it has.
Not only is state senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D-MO) facing a Secret Service probe, but she is...
Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Missouri Lutheran School who’d sued the state over the state’s decision to withhold grant money.
PBS summarized:
The case grows out of a lawsuit filed by Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Missouri, after it lost out on a grant for its playground in 2012...
Authorities have arrested Juan Thompson, 31, in St. Louis, MO, for threatening Jewish community centers as revenge against a former lover. From ABC:
The suspect, 31-year-old Juan Thompson, is accused of what federal prosecutors called a “campaign to harass and intimidate.” He’s charged in New York with cyberstalking a woman by communicating...
Vandals have inflected serious damage on dozens of headstones at a Jewish cemetery near St. Louis, MO.
…The damage is at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery at Olive and Hanley. Police said the damage took place over the weekend.
Some family members drove to the cemetery Monday evening to see if their loved one’s...
