This year the budget won’t reach the floor of the House till this week. It is unlikely that the Senate will have anything to review before the last week of April. That sets up the very real possibility (especially in light of the daily dysfunction in the Senate) that the budget remains unfinished on Friday, May 6, 2022.
Tony Messenger is the metro columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2019, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his series of columns on debtors’ prisons in MO. In 2016, Messenger was awarded a Missouri Honor Medal, the highest award bestowed by the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism.
…the Department of Social Services has a sordid history of ignoring the needs of those they are charged with helping. They know their actions create hardship and deprive struggling families of aid they are eligible and entitled to receive. Still, it takes a federal lawsuit to try and force improvement.
Our guest presenter for February was Stephen Webber, the Political Director of the Missouri AFL-CIO who updated us on the redistricting effort in Missouri and the progress of the PRO Act at the Federal level.
Conservative Republicans fight for the Missouri Way – chaos, authoritarianism and stupidity.
The current Postmaster General, major Donald Trump donor Louis DeJoy, came into office with the intent on making the Postal Service less efficient.