The West County Democrats hosted Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post Dispatch at our May meeting. Tony spoke on a range of issues that affect our State and the St. Louis region.
WCD May 2019 Meeting and Legislative Report
Category: Economic Fairness
A Few Days In Washington Part 3
As in St. Louis, local government points the homeless towards programs which may help but, come night fall, most folks are on their own. If they are already homeless, few resources are expended on them. Attention is focused on preserving housing opportunities for those with homes.
A Few Days In Washington Part 2
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 …
Down, Up, Down…
Missouri is still trending well below the growth necessary to fund the current budget, but, hey, hang on to any good news you can find!
Reckoning Week
The budget sent them by the Missouri House of Representatives assumes significant income growth. That no longer seems possible. Since the state ought to have a balanced budget, well, expect the Senate to break out the red pens.
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.