Mixed Bag But Still Trending Down Up and down, but generally down… The Missouri Department of Social Services has released the Monthly Management Report for July 2023 for the Family Support Division and the Missouri HealthNet Division. [ www.dss.mo/re ] Alas, no surprises. The number of Missourians getting Temporary Assistance climbed by Read More …
The past several weekends my wife and her siblings have been cleaning-out their mom’s house. (She passed, at age 95, this spring.) The in-laws and outlaws help too, so, I mildly amused myself collecting the twelve pair of identical scissors Read More …
What does Mike Parson – and his administration – have against kids? Oh, I know he likes to give out that ‘grandpa vibe’ at the State Fair. And, I suspect Parson happily spoils his six grandkids. The record with other Read More …
I learned long ago that large organizations make mistakes, often a long series of mistakes until the enterprise fails. Still, failure is not inevitable most of the time. Leadership can avoid potholes and sinkholes – if they’re paying attention. For Read More …
A friend from a very, very major metropolitan area up east texted me: did Missouri really just pass a law taking the sales tax off diapers and guns??? Of course not, I replied. That took two laws. Did Democrats vote Read More …
Thanks to indifference and incompetence, Missouri does much less for its struggling families now than it did a decade ago.