The afternoon before leaving for Washington I went to my local bank and got a nice handful of cash. I figured we could charge our visit to Monticello, all the hotel costs and our nicer meals but we had tickets Read More …
Category: National Issues
A Few Days In Washington Part 1
Unlike St. Louis, it’s possible to get places on public transit in the Washington D.C. area. At the start of each day we added value to our Metro Smart Cards, buying the full day pass. (With 22 years of college Read More …
WCD Meeting and Legislative Report 4-8-19
Professor Allan MacNeill of Webster University presented the truth about the GDP, the Job Numbers and the U.S. Stock Market. While these statistics are often use by politicians and pundits to exhibit the health of the economy, they don’t really present an accurate picture of the underlying state of our country.
The Gigged
A generation ago we watched the rise of McJobs, part-time, as-needed employees stuffed into the service economy. Now, companies have pushed the bar lower.
West County Democrats Meeting Report March 2019
From 1970 to the present, the number of people incarcerated in the United States has grown 500%, and this is the result of bad policy at all levels. The percent of the U.S. population in prison today, is six times greater than the next closest country. The percentage in Missouri is even higher than the national average. In fact, Missouri is now #1 in female incarceration in the country…We cannot continue on this trajectory.
The Wednesday Night Breakfast Club
The opiate crisis, school board candidates and the proposed St. Louis City-County merger are among the topics that you can learn and converse about over coffee and doughnuts at the Wednesday Night Breakfast Club started by Kevin FitzGerald.