Federal Items: Believe it or not, Congress is still at work – and doing all sorts of bad things. While the media has concentrated on failures, such as the inability to make any progress on immigration issues, the House Read More …
Category: State and Local Issues
Prop A decision Aug. 7 in Missouri will determine ‘the future of our state’
This article is reprinted from the Labor Tribune and dated July 2, 2018. LABORERS LOCAL 42 BUSINESS MANAGER/SECRETARY-TREASURER BRANDON FLINN As union members crowded into Laborers Local 42 hall in St. Louis June 24 for a rally and action to Read More …
Missouri Proposition A…What Does It Mean?
On the Missouri ballot will be Proposition A. It is a cleverly worded proposition which would say yes to Senate bill 19 & say yes to RTW, Right to Work in Missouri. After one reads the true meaning of the Read More …
Again In May, Fewer Missourians Getting Help Fighting Hunger and Poverty
Missouri has just issued the Family Support Division/MO HealthNet Division Monthly Management Report for May 2018 [ https://dss.mo.gov/re/pdf/fsd_mhdmr/1805-family-support-mohealthnet-report.pdf ]. Don’t get excited. As has become the typical, in May the total number of Missourians receiving food stamps dropped, as did Read More …
Bad Farm Bill Passes House of Representatives
Despite pressure from millions of good people about the nation, this afternoon the U. S. House of Representatives reconsidered and passed the very nasty and partisan Agriculture Reauthorization bill, aka the once-every-five-year Farm Bill. NOT A SINGLE DEMOCRAT VOTED FOR Read More …
Three Contracts
I have come to make a plug for failure. There are many ways to fail after all your successes… To pursue something because it matters to you, to your moral expectations for the world; to pursue something because the way Read More …