Community Issues
2019 Median Income Data Released The extended warranty on my wife’s car aged out after Memorial Day, so, when the Check Engine light lit up I expected pain. The active rocker arm oil control valve (which we didn’t know we Read More …
The Missouri GOP doesn’t want to do anything to lessen urban crime. No, they want to highlight that crime is an urban (read: black) problem, that cities and Democrats are bad and the only answer is giving Republicans even more unchecked power to run the state the right way.
In August our guest speaker, Dr. Dave Robertson, Political Science Department at UMSL, suffered a medical emergency which caused us to cancel the August 10 meeting. He is recovering well and provided West County Democrats with a video of the presentation he would have made to the group during our meeting.
Our September 14 Speaker: Charles Jaco
Topic: Tip of the Spear: WCD and the Election
Mr. Jaco, a Missouri native, holds degrees from the University of Chicago and Columbia University, and has received numerous awards including three Peabody awards. He has been an overseas correspondent, a reporter and anchor on radio and television, having worked for WXRT, NBC, CNN, KMOX, KTVI, KTRS, and the St. Louis American. In his spare time he’s also written both fiction and nonfiction books. We’re fortunate that he returned to St. Louis and is available to share his political expertise with us.
Back at the end of 1936 and into 1937 workers at a General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan held a sit-in strike. Michigan Governor Frank Murphy deployed the National Guard – not to break up the strike but to protect Read More …
The report finds that the number of struggling citizens helped by Temporary Assistance dropped by 2% from June while the number receiving food stamps increased by just over half a percent, and, Medicaid [MO HealthNet] added about 2% to its rolls.