Wow, they raised the poverty line for a family of four by $1.37 a day! Yes, the official federal poverty level guidelines for a family of four increased from $24,600 in 2017 to $25,100 in 2018, a whopping 2% jump! Read More …
Category: Issues
Community Issues
Reasonable Governing
Starting this February, Manchester, Missouri will charge residents for trash pick-up. The Mayor, Board of Alderman, and City staff worked diligently on the City’s 2018 budget to make it balance. The City for the last 20+ years has not raised Read More …
Locking The Front Door
On my way to bed I check the front door. Each night I snap the long-throw deadbolt deep into the door frame – not to keep me, my wife or our 14 pound Jack Russell in but to keep the Read More …
Math In Missouri
My late father-in-law designed parts used to build fighter planes. He worked in thousandths of an inch. He excelled. Yet, one Saturday afternoon a car dealership enraged him with their version of math. They brought him financial papers where the Read More …
Christine Dragonette Presents Document Assistance Program
The speaker at WCD’s monthly meeting on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017 was Christine Dragonette with the topic, “St. Francis Xavier’s Outreach Program: Facilitating Access to Identification Documents.” Ms. Dragonette, Director of Social Ministry, at St. Francis Xavier College Church on Read More …
Intentional Discrimination – Part 2
And infrastructure. But welfare reform, I see it, and I’ve talked to people. I know people that work three jobs and they live next to somebody who doesn’t work at all. And the person who is not working at all Read More …