By the end of the Fiscal Year, instead of growing by hundreds of millions of dollars the state’s General Revenue came up a net $633,836,284.17 short – 6.62% below the total raised in Fiscal Year 2019. That’s effectively better than a billion dollar gap.
Covid 19 has created challenges for polling places and health risks for the voters across the state, so the State has elected to expand mail-in voting (with a notary) to all eligible citizens in 2020. In St. Louis County, there are a few new rules and opportunities for those who will vote in August and November of this year.
When asked to send Missouri troops to point guns at other Americans, Mike Parson should have said “No.”
Republican agenda keeps pushing Americans down from the working class and middle class into the growing ranks of the working poor. Profits for billionaires are good. Higher wages for working stiffs are bad.
In normal times at my house 90% of dinners feature “sale meat.” Yes, between the local grocery store and the meat market I pride myself on stocking-up on beef, chicken, pork, steak and even fish when things go on sale. Read More …
Missouri has long lagged most other states in the operation of its benefit programs. As mentioned before, the state has moved from a county office model to Call Centers handling food stamps, Medicaid and most other programs. The Call Centers have been a monumental failure at handling everyday work flow. They now constitute an inescapable calamity struggling families must endure.