Land O Lakes Extra Creamy Butter usually costs $5.99 a pound at friendly stores. Finding it on sale for the same price — $3.50 per pound – as plebian butter, I picked up three pounds: “You shouldn’t take that many,” Read More …
Want to make $40.00 an hour talking on the phone for the State of Missouri? Well, that’s possible…if you work for Maximus, a Virginia based firm specializing in “Helping government serve the people.” This pesky pandemic keeps beating the crap Read More …
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 …
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.
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.
…with closed offices and a hiring freeze the numbers will not climb as they should. Hard working folks who need a hand up face locked doors. Welcome to Missouri.